The Sri Lankan Government launched a new website to showcase its work in the East called Eastern Revival. May go down the same path as Regaining Sri Lanka.
To download the entire site, click here.
Note that the Gallery section does not work on the original site either.
The Official Languages Commission (OLC) was established by Act No. 18 of 1991. The main object of the OLC is to recommended principles of policy relating to the use of the Official Languages, and to monitor and supervise compliance with the provisions of Chapter IV of the Constitution. The other objectives include taking all actions and measures as are necessary to ensure the use of languages referred to in Article 18 of the Constitution, to promote the appreciation of the (use of ) the Official Languages and to conduct investigations and to take remedial action in response to complaints received by the OLC.
Presently the OLC comprise Mr. Raja Collure, ( Chairman) Prof. A.V. Suraweera , Prof. S. Thillainathan, Prof. J. B. Dissanayake, Prof. Somarathne Balasooriya and Mr. N. P. M Saifdeen ( Members ). Mr. Senarath Gunasena ( Commissioner of Official Languages ) is its Secretary.
The only report worth archiving on this site (and in fact the only report on it!) is the Memorandum of Recommendations by the Commission released in June 2005. It is a damning indictment on the language disparities and capacities in the Government and public sector.
Read the report here.
Original website here.
This comprehensive archive of content related to the UNF - LTTE peace process in Sri Lanka contains:
The Regaining Sri Lanka Framework was proposed by the United National Front Government in 2003 as a means through which economic development in some key sectors could augment the nascent peace process at the time.
As the PM at the time, Ranil Wickremesinghe noted:
Economic re-construction and development, particularly of the areas devastated by war will be a deciding factor in sustaining the momentum of political negotiations. Development is part of the healing process in a wounded, divided society. Development is underpinning peace in Sri Lanka. Peace will sustain development. The two processes of peace and development have become inextricably inter-twined and inter-related.
They form the core of our vision of ‘Regaining Sri Lanka’ which provides the foundation for the restoration of growth and development of the economy.
The link to the website no longer works and there’s no complete record of the RSL documents I could easily find on the web - unsurprisingly, not even on the SCOPP website.
This archive contains ALL the sections of the Regaining Sri Lanka framework and also contains an earlier draft of the framework that wasn’t at the time made public.
Download the file from here.
This archive contains a large collection of files from the response to the 2004 Boxing Day Asian Tsunami. Files on Sri Lanka include:
Download the IIGEP website archive here, containing their final statement and the responses by the Commission of Inquiry and the Attorney-General’s Dept. to the same.
The COI website archives can be accessed from here.
Earlier archives of the IIGEP can be accessed here.
UPDATED - 5th May 2008
The letter sent by Justice Bhagwati to the President on 26th April 2008 can be download here.
The JVP is a registered political party in Sri Lanka.
Given the recent shenanigans of comrade Wimal Weerawansa, the JVP may well strike out his name and all related content from its website in the near future. This archive captures the entire contents of the JVP website as it stands, including the one essay worth reading on it - Fred Halliday’s account of the 1971 insurrection.
The original JVP website can be accessed here.
Click here to download the archive.
From June 2004 to Jayantha Dhanapala was Secretary General Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) in Sri Lanka, at a time when the institution was qualitatively different to what it is today. Jayantha was also Senior Adviser to the President of Sri Lanka until January 2008.
As noted on Jayantha’s website, it was originally constructed to provide accurate and up-to-date background information on Jayantha Dhanapala during the period when he was Sri Lanka’s Candidate for the post of UN Secretary-General. Since the conclusion of the election of the UN Secretary-General it was considered useful to provide students of international affairs and the general public with the views and values of Jayantha Dhanapala in view of his continuing role in national and international affairs.
I have personally found the website to host some of the best writing on Sri Lanka and international affairs by a Sri Lankan. Fearful that it would suddenly cease to exist, I decided to archive it. Download the archive file here.
By the way, I have also archived the SCOPP website. See here.
An archive of the LTTE Peace Secretariat which at the time of writing was online here. Given the Government’s investigations into the TNA and the nearly year long block on Tamilnet, it may be the case that the LTTE Peace Secretariat website is rendered inaccessible from Sri Lanka in the near future.
This archive contains, along with other content:
Download the LTTE Peace Secretariat archive from here (173.7Mb - broadband connection highly recommended). On unzipped, click on any file beginning with index to get started (e.g. index-56.html).
Please also see the Government Peace Secretariat’s (SCOPP) archive here.
A shift in work priorities for me relegated the InfoShare Research Blog to the back-burner. Posts on the blog link to content that’s still relevant today, perhaps even more so than when they were first published and includes:
