Draft 5 ;

"This isn't going to last anymore, it's not fair for us!" Kuma exclaimed, slamming his fists on the table.

Kuma's ancestors were not born in Sri Lanka and he was not born here either. As a result, they did not have the citizenship rights to education, job, housing and voting in the country. Everything that they do, the Sinhalese had the priority.

Sundram was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. All he needed to do was open his hands and he would get money. However, he does not repay his parents with his results; he fools around often and does not hand in his work on time. He has a neighbour, Kuma, who comes from a poor family who learned to treasure everything beside him.

His results are always top in the school and his parents do not have to worry about him. Both of them are taking their "O’s "this year but Sundram was not nervous about it. On the other hand, Kuma has been working very hard just to achieve good results to get into the best University and give his parents a good life.

As the days passes in the blink of an eye, their "O "level ended. Sundram got 4B3 and 1B4 and for his Sinhalese B3. However, Kuma got 3A2 and 2B3 and for his Sinhalese, B3. Both applied for the same University and waited for their reply. Since then, Kuma face had always been glum. His application was not accepted but Sundram's application was taken in. The reason for Kuma's rejection was that he was an Indian Tamil and Sundram was a Sinhalese. The only University that Kuma was being taken in was one of the worst Universities in Sri Lanka and the distance from his house to that University was close to 11km.

Kuma was very unpleased with the type of treatment that the Sinhalese had to endure. When their ancestors came here before 1970, they had equal chances in schooling. There was no University admission criterion so long as your results are good. After 1970s, the admission was not was on merit anymore. Tamil had to score a higher mark then the Sinhalese students in order to secure a position in the University. Furthermore, the number of the Sinhalese students to study there was a fixed amount.

Under the help of the India government, they thought that they could return to India in order for their son future. However, their dreams were not to be when the Sri Lankan government did not fully carry out this agreement.

For the next few years, Kuma worked as a tea boy in a tea plantation, waiting for a chance for him to get a revenge on the Sinhalese government. However, what agitated him more was the resettlement policy. Those Sinhalese peasants from southwestern Sri Lanka that had no land was relocated to the concentrated north of the Tamil area. The piece of land that Kuma was working on was to the Sinhalese farmers to farm. Kuma was the sole breadwinner; his family were to depend on Kuma meagre income to live on. Now, the only income was gone, Kuma was very infuriated and wanted some fairness for him and his fellows Indian mates.

His agony ended in the 1976 when Prabhakaran, the leader of a group called the Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam, LTTE, was set up. They are recruiting young soldier below 18 to take up arms against the Sri Lankan government to fight for a separate Tamil homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka in order to protect the Tamil people from the so-called oppression and discrimination by the Sinhalese. When Kuma heard about it, he found a few of his friends who were also dissatisfied with the treatment they got.

However, after all these years of fighting and killing, the LTTE was finally defeated. However, given the LTTE's organizational structure and past activities, will peace stay in Sri Lanka or will LTTE will be back for more?