Draft 4

Vidu is born as a Sinhalese being adopted by the Indian Tamils. He grew up with a very close friend, Gihan who is also a Sinhalese. Vidu’s parents forced their Vidu not to speak Sihala but to speak in Tamil language and live in a Sinhalese culture. Even though Vidu and Gihan do not speak the same language, he learnt some Sinhala from Gihan and they get along very well. In 1942, when Vidu and Gihan are 5 years old, everything seems to be in peace till that day came around.
14 years later, after Sri Lanka was given their independence for 8 years, the government decided to promote the “Sinhala only” policy and that severely affected Vidu as he had been speaking Tamil language since young. The government also announced that the Tamils will be given 3 years to learn the language. Otherwise they will be dismissed from government service. This policy had not affected Vidu yet as he is still a student.
The next policy came around and the government promoted is that English educated Tamil students were to score higher marks than the Sinhalese students as the government noticed that there is an equal amount of students in the higher standard course such as the medical studies. Therefore, this policy is to limit the amount of Tamils entering these courses. The objective is to make a same ratio of students as the population in Sri Lanka. Vidu and Gihan had scored the same marks in their examinations so they thought that they could enter the same course. Unfortunately, Vidu was not allowed into the course because the policy had increased the standard of Tamil students. Vidu felt that this law is very unfair to the Tamils therefore he decided to join the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE). He and others Tamils wants the rights that all citizens have. Once in a dark alley, Gihan was able to contact with Vidu.
‘I’ve heard that you had decided to join the LTTE, why are you doing this? ‘Gihan asked in a worrying look on his face.
‘My university admission was unsuccessful even though I had the same marks as you and I did not manage to get into the same university as you’ he hollered with his face filled with anger. ‘This is very biased against the Tamils.’
20 years later, the LTTE was known to everyone and started the Sri Lankan Civil War. The insurgency caused significant hardships for the population, environment and the economy of the country. Creating havoc over the years, fighting for their own freedom but others only regards them as the terrorists. Vidu killed several people who are all Sinhalese and Gihan could just stand at the side watching him killing his own race. It seems that Vidu had forgotten who he was already. Vidu eventually became the right hand man of the leader of LTTE. His vision is blurred by his desires.