Content warning this episode contains graphic descriptions of violence

Welcome to true spies

Week by week mission by mission you'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations

You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world

What do they know? What are their skills?

And what would you do in that position?

This is true spies the day before a bus stop had been blown up or an bus had been blown up

And we're on the way back to the airport and a disful sort of jittery about the whole thing

And I realized that the car that was taking me he was trailing along behind a bus full of people by like three feet

And I'm like if this bus blows up I'm dead

I'm Vanessa Kirby and this is true spies

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Colombo Sri Lanka 2007

This relinquent civil war is now well into its third decade

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Over 50,000 people have already been killed mostly civilians and the death toll is rising fast

The liberation tigers of Tamil Elam or LTE have stepped up their suicide bombing campaign

Better known as the Tamil Tigers the paramilitary group is now targeting everyone from government officials

rival Tamil politicians and even innocent bystanders

most of the fighting during the civil war had been done in the north and in the central part of the country

But the LTT had become really bold and when I was there they had started bombing bus stops and

buses full of people

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