Roland Buerk reports from Sri Lanka where the Government says it is on the verge of victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and investigates whether abductions and killings threaten the chances of achieving peace. Roland Buerk has been a BBC correspondent in South Asia for the last five years, based first in Bangladesh and since the beginning of 2007 in Sri Lanka. He has reported from across the island as the Government forces have pushed the Tamil Tigers from the east, and are now fighting to take back territory the rebels control in the north. He has also covered other countries in South Asia, including India, numerous stints in Pakistan and Afghanistan including Kandahar, and the transition to democracy in the Maldives. When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit Sri Lanka on Boxing Day 2004 Roland was on holiday in Unawatuna on the island's southern coast. With his then girlfriend, now wife, Anna, he was swept out of his ground-floor beach-front hotel room by the water. Both survived unharmed. All Roland's possessions were lost except for the boxer shorts he was wearing but he found a mobile phone and began filing reports to the BBC. Roland has also written a book, Breaking Ships, about how old oil tankers and cargo ships are torn apart by hand and recycled on the beaches of Bangladesh. Bookmark with: Delicious Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon What are these?
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