Unknown Sri Lanka
7 minutes, 2004
Ref: 250

After eighteen-years of bloody civil war - the chance of peace in Sri Lanka has come another step closer. The government's ceasefire with Tamil Tiger rebels has just won a massive vote of popular support in local elections. But why are the two sides now talking peace? We travelled across the ceasefire line to Kilinochi, in the heart of rebel-held territory, to find out whether Sri Lanka's peace dividend could be part of the fallout from the September 11th attacks.