This is my story

Name- Young boy
Age- 24
Town- Colombo, Sri lanka

I went to school for 13 years ad passed a/l. Yes I passed it in my second attempt. Before all this I think you like to know about myself. I am son of no job man and a no job woman. I don't have any idea how they taught me. I have one sister. She was get married to a fire fighter. When I was doing my o/l I didn't go to school as I didn't have bus fair. And didn't go to classes continuously as my parents couldn't afford the fees every month. But I passed my o/l with 5 A's. Yes I am happy with that. Because I Got A's to my favorite subjects.

Then I came to a/l class. My story remains the same. However I failed in my first attempt. (Ah I forgot to tell I studied in mathematics stream as I dreamed to be an engineer). Then I passed my exam in the second attempt. Yes I did it. In my result sheet it says I have got qualified to go to university. But didn't qualified. Because here about 20% of students are qualifying to state universities. But my dream to be an engineer did't fade. So I decided to do a diploma conduct by government. Can you remember I am a student who was qualified to go to state university. Now I am doing a diploma. Because I must achieve my dreams. But most unfortunate is there are students who didn't qualified to do the diploma also. Some of them were just like me. Fortunately I was able to follow the diploma by staying at home. If I had to get board definitely I will leave the diploma dues to high expenses. However I was lucky. And now I am following a diploma conduct by the government. Do you remember I am student who was qualified to go to state university.

You know one thing. There are lots of private universities in Sri Lanka. They say they are ready to give the chance to the 80% who couldn't got to state universities like me. Yes we can do those degrees. But did you think why I didn't follow such a degree program? Can you guess? Yes you can guess. Everyone knows the reason. But owners of private universities and students in them forget that reason. They know my situation. But they forget it and do their job.

But you know I feel lucky because state university students fight for the students like me. But they are neglected. Not because they are state university students. But because they fight for the students like me. They fight against the rich. Therefore they are neglected and dishonored. The true reason for the fight is buried under the soil. The true reason to take private universities to government and increase the annual intake, and give the chance to students like me. But the true reason is buried under the soil by the rich. They are fighting to give free education to rich also. But they are against them. I don't know why. Sometimes it may be because they have money to follow their degree programs. So they neglect dreams I have. Because I'm poor. Yes because I am poor.

I am a student qualified to state university but following a government diploma, because................?    

Fight in Jaffna University.

In Sri lankan universities it is the tradition to give a welcome party to the new batch. The party is specified to each university and the features are different from university to university as it is base on the tradition in the university. In Jaffna university it was the tradition to perform the traditional dances on in the welcome party. According to the tradition of university sinhala students had perform a traditional dance. 

At that time tamil students had interrupted and asked to stop the dance. After that the fight began. According to the sinhala students tamil students went out and returm with large gang with long wooden poles and attacked the sinhala students. They have damaged the premises where the party was held. It was the summery of the incident.

This incident was used by several people in different ways to accomplish their personal aspects. In one side the politicians who are against the government tries to show it as the reborn of LTTE. They tried to show this incident as the begining of the tamil terrorism. They tried to show to the country that without them terrorism will come again. From the time they defeated they shouted saying that LTTE will be back and this incident made the real stage to prove it to the country. But it is doubtful how much they were succeeded. When they realise the arising of national problem is not good they tried to show to country government is not doing anything to this problem and government is helping the LTTE. Unfortunately we couldn't put this away easily.  

Among all these things the people who got the real advantage was the remaining isolated LTTE international groups. Without any doubt they changed the news upside down and published as tamil students were attacked by sinhala students. But the reality was some thing else. The best example to this was they way tamilnet.com reported this incident. But government says after investigations tamil students were backed from the outside people. It is clear to all the people who know the real situation they were trying to dishonor Sri lanka in front of the international community and same time make the tamils angry and raise them against the sihalese again.

This is a condition that Sri lankan government must handle carefully because any wrong move can change the situation of the country and will send the country to the times of war. Whole world is trying to take the maximum advantage from this incident. Because from the politicians of Sri lanka to politicians of India and England used the war in Sri lanka in the election campaigns ad they are continuing it upto this moment too. It is clear international politicians don't want to see the end of this problem as the conflict remains the same it brings lot o advantages to their politics and some times to the their countries as some of countries live by selling weapons. And we can't forget the remaining isolated international LTTE groups who are searching to start their terrorist acts again in Sri lanka. 

An injured sinhala student

Tamil students