A Fleeting Moment in My Country: The Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State
N. Malathy is member of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora and a  naturalised New Zealand citizen who has lived in New Zealand for  four decades. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the  University of Canterbury in New Zealand, where she has worked as  an analyst and programmer. She has written extensively on the  human rights situation in Sri Lanka and also translated a short novel  set in the Vanni context which has been accepted for publication by  Penguin India. She spent four years in Sri Lanka, in the Vanni  District under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam  (LTTE), from 2005 till 2009, a period marked by the gradual  weakening of the 2002 Norwegian brokered ceasefire, which  eventually led to the brutal war in which LTTE was defeated and its  leadership killed or imprisoned. During this period she worked in  many institutions, including a human rights body, a women’s  organization, and an orphanage. Her experiences spanned working  with LTTE to release child soldiers, preparing documentation for  peace talks for the same body, documenting human rights  violations by the Sri Lankan military and working on a project to  raise awareness of domestic violence.