16 August, 2004 - Published 16:40 GMT

About Us

Sandeshaya, the Sinhala Service of the BBC has London as its main operation hub along with colleagues of forty two other language services.

Polls have shown that Sri Lankans in search of a reliable media outlet about the civil war and the developments of the peace process have been reaching for us constantly.

Uncensored news material is filed directly to London by our contributors around Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka newsgathering is co-ordinated by veteran journalist Elmo Fernando. Charles Haviland takes over as the BBC Colombo correspondent from Roland Buerk.