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The Architecture of Erasure: State Impunity and the Legal Case for Tamileelam

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The Architecture of Erasure: State Impunity and the Legal Case for Tamileelam Analyzing the institutionalization of parallel justice, the systematic suppression of Saiva-Tamil history, and the international mandate for remedial self-determination. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Overview: The Structural Transformation of Jurisprudence and Heritage This report evaluates the critical intersection of majoritarian state policy, judicial exceptionalism, and historical revisionism in Sri Lanka. It contextualizes the May 2026 announcement by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to introduce specialized internal Dhamma Courts (Dhamma Tribunals) under the Viharagam and Devalagam Act (Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance). Far from a benign administrative adjustment, this legislative pivot structurally isolates the Buddhist clergy from immediate civil and criminal accountability. Crucially, this executive report links this shifting domestic legal paradigm to ongoing demographic engineering in the Northern...