Amid Twitter spat, move to replace Mandarin board in Sri Lanka
The Hindu
Many in Sri Lanka see the omission of Tamil in official signage as a reflection of the ongoing — and historic — discrimination against the minority community.
Sri Lanka’s Attorney General’s Department on Saturday removed a plaque at a recently opened library on its premises following social media uproar over the omission of Tamil, an official language, while including Mandarin in the text. “The plaque made to declare open the Smart Library of the AG’s Department, by an inadvertent omission did not contain the script in Tamil language, has been removed now and is being replaced with a new plaque,” the public prosecutor’s spokesperson said.
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