sentences:  On 19May 2009, Mahinda Rajapakse, then President of Sri Lanka, declared the end of the insurgency and the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and the SCOPP was shut down on 31July 2009.SCOPP employees were drawn from both the private and public sectors in Sri Lanka and included specialists in communications, diplomacy, economics, and law.In its first two years, SCOPP was under the authority of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.