WHAT A CRYING SHAME!

DAILY MIRROR
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

In 1988, Sinhala and Tamil were pronounced the two Official Languages of Sri Lanka through an Amendment to the Constitution. At that point, it was envisaged that both Sinhala and Tamil would be implemented as the languages of administration of the country. In fact, a number of laws, circulars and Acts have been put into place by successive governments to ensure this. Unfortunately, in 2008, Sri Lanka still has an administration with less than 10% Tamil language capacity.

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