2nd draft

“I am a useless person,” Sulia expressed with thousand of regret as he continued, “I had failed to protect her.” H sobbed again. Mr. Sulia was undergoing an interview by the Sri Lanka live news recapping the days under the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). He remembered how he lost his wife, house and property...

Sulia is a Sinhalese, a retired senior policeman.

Once, he had a happy family, a lovely wife and two children. They had no worry for basic life. Sulia had a stable job as a policeman. That time, policeman was an easy job; they hardly have any case to solve as the place they lived in was safe and sound, but things do not last.

Sri Lanka was a lovely island where beautiful beach were, and they have great amount of fresh delicious seafood. It is also known as the “Pearl of the Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka was once under the colony of the British. British colonial rule favoured the Tamil minority in terms of jobs and education. After being independent, new government was set up, which was made up of mainly the Sinhalese introduced policies that only favoures their own race. The Tamils, who held privileged position during British rule faces discrimination.

First policy which only granted citizenship to those who were born in Sri Lanka or those whose fathers and grandfathers were born there. Many Indian Tamil found themselves stateless. Sulia was then a teenage. This policy did not interrupt his life. He lives with no worry throughout his childhood.

Second policy also did not disturb Sulia in anyway, he have an easy admission into university. For the result that the university was no longer based on merit. Instead, Tamil students had to score higher marks than Sinhalese students to enter he same university course. A fixed number of places were also reserves for Sinhalese.

Sulia met her wife there. Dugar was an Indian; she had to work extra hard to get into the same university as Sulia. Addition, she is a girl. Ladies back then was not encourage to study. She did part time job, in the tea plantation to earn her school fee. They married once they graduated. Their marriage was a hard one, Sulia’s parents do not agree their marriage. They denied the couple to stay with them, and insist them to move out of the village.

Despite the bitter life, they bite their lips hard and live through. They are granted with two loving children.

Their blissful life could no carry on far, as the LTTE was form to fight again the bias policies, everything start to have drastic change. The lovely beach was turned into blood field where innocents are killed. Sea was no longer crystal blue, however filled with deep red coulored substance. People hardly any food to eat, instead of the free flow of seafood last time.


Indians was convened by LTTE to fight against the Sinhalese for their rights. This group encourage violent against the unfairness. LTTE call in all guys to fight, despite the age. Many Indian flee to other countries. As the recruitment is low, LTTE decides to take in Indian women. Dugar was an unlucky one. She was summoned by the leader to fight.

The Indian soldier ordered with loud voice. “Leave with me, now or never!” He pointed a gun at Dugar’s youngest child, Ella. Sulia covered Ella mouth afraid to let her sound spoil the silent.

Dugar hold her fits tight, she whispered loudly, “I’ll leave!” this sentence stunk deep down Sulia’s heart. Dugar leaves and never come home. Everyone know the outcome, however Sulia insisted that his wife will come home. He did not move house despite the place was being destroyed into unrecognized shape. He continued to wait...