Story+9-Kapilas

Kapilas' Story

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T: can you tell us your story? K: since 1983, people is making terrible in Sri Lanka ， they make terrible ， so one day,they came to our Town and burned everything ， so we can see the fire smoke going up to the sky ， so my father Said that we have to move out of our house ， but my grandmother was sleeping ， so we asked her to come with us ， but she said nothing will happen to me because I am old they won ’ t do anything to me ， we have done something ， but she said no ， so we went away to jungles ， after one week we heard a news that my grandmother was dead ， because when they burned the temple ， she liked the temple very much ， so when she cries they cut here (hindbrain) and the hand ,so she passed away ， everything was burned ， whole burned ， everything black ， they told my father “ your son can not study in school because he doesn't have the born certificate ， your son doesn't have a certificate ， because it was burned already ， he gave us an idea to come to Malaysia that we can study ， we sold everything we have to make a way to Malaysia ， when we came to here ， my mother ’ friend was here, so we stay in their home, they found a job for my father, so my father earned a little bit, we moved to another house, when we moved, the auntie find the school for us, that's the harvesting center, i am studying in this school now.After that, we slowly study and i was hard for me to understand English, and i slowly get many friends, and pass my from 1,from 2? when i came to from 3 i can see the changing happened when the subjects is bit difficult, when i finished the final exam, an agent person who take carry people to other country said to my father that it is better to study in Australia, that is good quality, so we made our wait? we picked everything, then he said it is better to stay in hostel before the (Inaudible[02:59]),so they prepared a hotel and everyday would bring food, one day, suddenly, a police knocked the door and arrested, i don’t know why they arrested? it is because we are going to Australia, we didn't have a permission also, they said if you give us money ,we will make you to Australia, so we agree and when we was abroad to go the police arrested us and I stayed in the jail for 2 years.

T:how do you feel when the first time you come here? K:i feel...when i first came to school ,i was not feel so happy because i don't know how to speak English ,i don't have any friends ,i was being alone and i went on my teacher,i like her,because she teacher me how to study,and then i slowly got friends

T:so now you must have many friends here? K:yeah

T:how many people in your class? K:34

T:how do you feel your teacher? K:first of all,i was scary what the teacher asked me to do,but they were so kind and they teach me slow,be care of me,then slowly i can. so you can learn language very fast for one person ,they spent one day to teach,they spent how many hours to teacher us,because they love us.

T:your 2 brother also study here? K:yeah,they are studying in this school.

T:how old are they? K:I'm 13 years old, my skin brother is 12 years old and my last brother is 10 years old.

T:Did your mother working here? K:she is a housewife ,my father is working.

T:your father is always working? K:yeah.

T:so you don't have any plan ,just studying in Malaysia? K:yeah,we don'know what even to do.

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information of Sri Lanka



Location History Independence from the United Kingdom - Dominion 4 February 1948 - Republic 22 May 1972 - Current constitution 7 September 1978
 * Sri Lanka lies on the Indian tectonic plate, a minor plate within the Indo-Australian Plate
 * Sri Lanka is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
 * This is an island consists mostly of flat-to-rolling coastal plains, with mountains rising only in the south-central part

Sri Lanka is a republic and a unitary state governed by a presidential system. The capital, Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, is a suburb of the largest city, Colombo. An important producer of tea, coffee, gemstones, coconuts, rubber and the native cinnamon, Sri Lanka has been called The tear drop of India because of its shape and location and is known as "The Pearl of the Indian Ocean" because of its natural beauty. It is also known as "The nation of smiling people". The island contains tropical forests, and diverse landscapes with high biodiversity. The country has had a long history of international engagement, being a founding member of SAARC and a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the G77 and the Non-Aligned Movement. It is also the only country in South Asia that is currently rated 'high' on the Human Development Index. Population Economy Politics Why they left? The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on 23 July 1983, there was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers), a separatist militant organisation which fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island. After a 26-year military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009, bringing the civil war to an end.
 * Population: 20,277,597
 * Sinhalese accounting for 73.8%, Tamils ​​18% (5.1% among Indian immigrants), Moors accounted for 8.3%
 * 70.19% belong to the Buddhists, 12.61% are Hindus, 9.71% are Muslims and 7.45% are Christians.
 * Famous production: Tea, Tourism and Transport
 * Since 2005, per capital income has doubled. During the same period, poverty declined from 15.2% to 7.6%, the unemployment rate fell from 7.2% to 4.9%
 * 90% of the households in Sri Lanka are electrified, 87.3% of the population have access to safe drinking water and 39% have access to pipe-borne water.
 * democratic republic
 * For decades, the party system has been dominated by the socialist Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the conservative United National Party.
 * The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
 * The Politics of Sri Lanka reflect the historical and political differences between the two main ethnic groups, the majority Sinhala and the minority Tamils, who are concentrated in the north and east of the island.