The mainstream news today reported that Milinda Moragoda would become one of the President’s senior advisors. Milinda was a leading light in the UNF government’s peace negotiations team during the height of the ceasefire agreement, from around 2002 to 2003. He was also a United National Front candidate during the parliamentary elections in April 2010. At the time, he was active on Twitter and also had an active website. Since the elections, both the site and the Twitter feed have gone completely dormant.

The ideas, aspirations and general political culture Moragoda says he stands firmly in support of and believes in are those inimical to the President he now advises, and the government he is now associated with. Ergo, there is every reason to believe he may delete these accounts and sites.

I have archived his main website and provided a PDF that links to an archive of his Twitter account. Not all the links in the archived version of the site work, but all the files are present and can be searched in Windows 7 or OS X using the search functionality built into the operating system, or any search tool for local content.

This content was archived on 4 May 2011.

Download the mirror of the CAFFE site here.

As with all the files on this site, once downloaded, you do not need an internet connection to access all the information on the site.

This backup was taken on 10 March 2010.

These archives don’t include the content on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, along with entries in Wikipedia.

Of interest here is www.sfbalakaya.com, set up as a spoof with the clear intent of deriding Sarath Fonseka in the guise of being his official website. This site was particularly pernicious because of its publication of completely false information pegged to real individuals and organisations.

• Download www.mahinda2010.lk here.
• Download www.sarathfonseka.com here.
• Download www.sfbalakaya.com here.

Anyway, I’ve already archived the .org version here.

Click here to download the complete .com version.

Download a full archive of their site here.

As it is unsure how long they will be able to operate, their entire site, including archives dating back to 2007, can be download here.

The new site posed significant challenges to download and archive for offline browsing, but after a lot of muttered expletives, I managed to suck down all of the important information on it.

The new archive, the last that will be taken of this site before it officially ceases operations, can be accessed here.

Important update: Also see Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process – .com version

Click here for a related blog post contextualising this new website.

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.

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.