Sri Lanka Facts and Plot

FACTS :
1)Sri Lanka passed the Ceylon Citizenship Act of 1948.
- Many Tamils became stateless.
- Grant citizenship only to those born in Sri Lanka or forefathers who were born in Sri Lanka
- Tamils do not have the rights to have voting, education jobs etc.
- Altough they do not have the rights, the Tamils still contribute to the economy working as Tea planters.
2)Resettlement Policy 1950
- Sinhalese peasants were transferred from densely populated south western and central areas to Tamil areas
- Policy for the landless Sinalese peasants to live and cultivate padi
- Tamils were not happy as the Sinhalese peasants came to live among them
- Buddist monks and the Sri Lankan Army which are mostly Sinhalese came to occupy their lands.
3)Official language Act 1956
- The Sinhala government decalred that Sinhala will be the offical language.
- Tamils given 3 years to learn Sinhala
- Tamils found it hard to find jobs as they do not have the rights and majority cannot speak Sinhala
4)New university Admission Citeria 1972
- Benefited the English-Educated Tamils and they scored well in the examinations.
- The Tamils and Sihalese students to enter the same course ( medical and engineering) were almost the same although the tamils only make up 18% of the populations.
- A new policy was set-up that the Tamil students had to score higher marks than the Sinhalese students to enter the same course.
- There are places in the university reserved for Sinhalese mainly.

Characters : Muthusami, a Tamil. can speak a little bit of Sinhala as he is schooling at 'Sinhala Government School '. Parents. Mr and Mrs Bala. Muthusami's Friends ( not many Sinhalese friends ).

PLOT :
- Muthusami a boy schooling in 'Sinhala Government School'.
- Majority of his friends is Tamil.
- know how to speak a little bit of Sinhala language.
- Many of Sinhalese hated him as he scored quite well in his test.

- Muthusami did not get into the university altough he scored well in his exams and test.
- Tired of following the rules.
- Muthusami decided to join the Tamil Tigers.
- He trained very hard in the camp. Eveready to defend their rights.

- War broke out in Muthusami's village.
- Muthusami went to his hometown.
- Defend the villagers.

- Family died after the war.
- Muthusami went back to camp.
- Tamil Tiger survivors got ambushed by the Sinhala army.
- Survivors including Muthusami was killed during the ambush attack.