LTTE Peace Secretariat

The first archive of the LTTE Peace Secretariat was uploaded to this site on 11th April 2008. In January 2009, the LTTE was formally banned in Sri Lanka by the Government. Days before, the Government announced that it had captured the LTTE strong-hold Killinochchi, where the LTTE Peace Secretariat was physically located. 

This archive was taken today, with information on the humanitarian catastrophe that gripped the Vanni as the Army closed in on the last of the LTTE strongholds. 

Because this site does not work properly offline, you need to use this archive with a desktop search tool like MSN or Google Desktop (or Spotlight with OS X) in order to drill down to the content. 

The archive is around 270Mb and can be downloaded here.

The Sunday Leader

The assassination of the Editor in Chief of the Sunday Leader on 8th January 2009 was a significant blow to independent media in Sri Lanka. More coverage of this outrageous murder here.

Lasantha’s final editorial, published posthumously was moving and powerful. His words and his assassination were a damning indictment of the inability and unwillingness of the incumbents in power to secure media freedom in Sri Lanka and the safety of journalists. 

All the contents of the newspaper online up until 11th January 2009 can be downloaded as a ZIP archive here. The ZIP file is 725Mb. 

Click on index.htm once uncompressed to access all the content.

Index on Federalism and Power Sharing in Sri Lanka

An index on Federalism and power sharing in Sri Lanka compiled by Keerthi Tennakoon and produced by the erstwhile Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 

Download the complete index from here. Click on home.html to get started.