Veli Studies · Legitimacy

The lattice that holds.

Every refusal cites an instrument. Every instrument is published. The legitimacy is in the lattice, not in any single rule.

Five Refusals · permanent law · non-removable

1.
No proscribed iconography
No LTTE flag, no LTTE composite emblem (roaring tiger head + crossed rifles + bayonets + bullet ring), no LTTE wordmark, no uniform insignia, no rank tabs, no martyr-cult framing. The Chola Puli Koḍi (c. 9th–13th c. CE), Sangam-era tiger imagery, hero-stone (naṭukal) tradition, and the mūvēndar triad (tiger · fish · bow) are civilisational symbols that pre-date the LTTE by ~1,100 years and are permitted — see /veli-studies/iconography/puli-kodi.
Anchor · UK Terrorism Act 2000 s.13 + s.12; Pwr v DPP [2022] UKSC 2 (strict liability). Carve-out: pre-1976 civilisational iconography documented in Tier-A scholarship.
2.
No randomised atrocity draws
Atrocity events appear only in fixed, curated, cited study sequences — never in a randomised, gamified, or 'pack-pull' context on any public surface.
Anchor · ECHR Art. 8 dignity; OHCHR trauma-informed-documentation guidance.
3.
No cash-out, no wagering
Min stays a non-tradable contribution marker. No secondary market is endorsed. No chance-for-prize loop is ever published.
Anchor · Gambling Act 2005 s.6; FCA PERG 2.7.
4.
No naming proscribed combatants on plates
Combatants appear only as Archetypes & Offices anchored to Tier-A citations. Real names are retained only for non-violent figures — clerics, journalists, lawyers, doctors, mothers of the disappeared — with full citation.
Anchor · UK Terrorism Act 2000 s.13 (strict liability for support); ICCPR Art. 19 protected speech.
5.
Sealed operational layer
No rules text, stat blocks, deck-builder, pack art, or marketplace appears on any public route. The operational layer is sealed in Vault RB-13 behind Founder + 4-of-7 trustee unwrap.
Anchor · TLTE Continuity Charter — Sealed Surface Doctrine.

Amendable only by the Continuity Council (unanimous) + Founder, with public publication within 30 days.

Legal & evidentiary stack

UK Terrorism Act 2000 s.13 + s.12

No proscribed-org insignia (strict liability).

Pwr v DPP [2022] UKSC 2

Confirms strict liability under TA 2000 s.13.

UK Terrorism Act 2006 s.1–2

Intent-based glorification offences.

ECHR Art. 10 & Art. 17

Expression with abuse-of-rights limit.

Perinçek v Switzerland

Historical-debate protection.

ICCPR Art. 19 + Art. 20

Expression vs advocacy-of-hatred boundary.

UNESCO 2003 Intangible Heritage Convention

Basis for archetype/oral-tradition framing.

Berne Convention + UK CDPA 1988

UK GDPR + Data Protection Act 2018

QR pages carry no PII, no tracking.

Gambling Act 2005 s.6; FCA PERG 2.7

Non-tradable Min, no chance-for-prize loop.

OHCHR OISL Report (2015)

Tier-A evidentiary anchor.

Pre-publish review checklist

No LTTE flag, tiger, or proscribed-org insignia on any public asset.
No combatant of a proscribed organisation named on any plate.
Every atrocity reference is inside a curated study sequence, never randomised.
Every claim load-bearing has a Tier-A citation (OHCHR, UN PoE, ICG, Amnesty, HRW).
Every named figure is non-violent and has a citation justifying the name.
Every page carries the Five Refusals component non-removably.
Every page carries a referral block (UK 999 / Refuge / SL WIN / TN 181).
No 'card', 'deck', 'pack', 'gameplay', 'Min reward' word appears on any public surface.
No PII or behavioural tracking on any QR landing page.
Every PDF colophon names VinMin Ltd as publisher, not TLTE.
Lobbying Act 2014 transparency note on every printed asset.
Sealed RB-13 is excluded from Velicham grounding and public Vault preview.

The full operational legal memo (counsel-of-record draft, indemnity matrix, jurisdictional appendices) is sealed in Vault RB-13.