Eng AA Draft3

Draft 3 Kodeswarar
“Hey you there! Get ready for your sentence,” one of the Sinhalese soldier shouted at Balan.

Whereas as Balan was in pitch dark. The place was filthy. Cockroaches and lizards were crawling all over the cell walls. Balan was sitting down at a corner. He was pondering why was he a prisoner now and about his past.

He, his mother Durga and his sister Devi lived in a village called Polonnaruwa. Balan was a English teacher in other village called Sigiriya. His father Rajan had died in 1945. It was because as he father was coming back from the tea plantation after his night duty as a security guard and he met into an accident. Since then Balan had been working for his family. His mother also earned some money by selling some of her hand made art and crafts. Balan sister studies in a local high school. In 1948 Ceylon gained independence. Ceylon government passed the Ceylon Citizenship Act in 1948. As result of this Balan and much more Indian Tamil families became stateless. He still continued to teaching in Sigiriva school.

Balan was very humorous person always making jokes and made people relive from their stressful lives. One day Balan’s sister came home with a huge smile. “ Brother I have won the scholarship for the college, I also have finished my high school studies.” she said to her brother. Balan was so happy that he bought sweets for his whole street of neighbours and he going around telling that his sister is going to college.

After Balan’s sister had finished her college studies in 1960s she wanted to go to the university but Balan could afford it. It was because as Balan had been a English teacher, now the official language had became Singhalese. Anyway Devi also started work as a tuition teacher, after few years in 1975 Balan joined she sister in the university. In 1972 Indian Tamils scored better than the Sinhalese and the population in the university both the Tamils and Singhalese were equal. The government introduced a new university criteria saying that Tamils students had to score higher than the Sinhalese students to enter the university. Balan sister could enter the university because this so she continued as tuition teacher.


In Balan’s village there were many Tamils who supported the Tamil Tigers so the Ceylon government bombed the village. Balan did not know this because he was away from the village to find a job. When retuned to his village he got a shock of his life. His house was simply gone and is mothers, sister dead bodies were separated into parts. Balan was taken back from this incident. The Tamil Tigers used this as a good chance to get more people into the group. Some how the Tamil Tiger group leader brain washed people like Balan and made them join in. When Balan entered group he was questioned that whether he wanted to be solider or a suicide bomber. He answered as suicide bomber. Then he was trained for 3 years in the mountains as the Tamils Tigers camp sites were. Balan's training grew him physically and mentally ready for him to do the bombing.

On 1980 Balan mission was to destroy the head quarters of the Sinhalese base. He entered the base and a solider had identified him as a Tamil Tiger. The soldier was Balan old Sinhalese friend before. They captured him and he became a prisoner.

The cell gate opened, and the Sinhalese solider told him that his was going to be shot dead. The Sinhalese asked him “ What is your last wish?”. Balan exclaimed “ I want to see my mother and sister!”,after that he was in tears. The Sinhalese solider head was down. Then Balan was taken to a opened place and he took final stand and the next second his body was on the ground.
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