Nationalist groups are asking to abolish it. Gov has already been soft on Sinhala nationalist goons so there is little to doubt whether gov would not go ahead with that. And what is meant by changing? Isn’t that taking back the powers given via the 13th and bring the control of the country to a centralized system? Demala bhashawen thibunu jathika geeya nathi kala. Ithin thawath kochcharak issarahata yai da?
Why should tamil majority areas have administration in Sinhala?
You can’t do administration in all the three languages. What do u think we use to do administration in SL? Do u have a single idea abt administration in SL. It is done in Sinhala. Though gov is practicing, three language as a policy many tamils in south face problems due to language. I find no problem in doing admin in Sinhala in south cos majority are Sinhala. But space must be provided for tamils to ask for Tamil language when they live in south. As u find it hard to understand let me tell u.
A tamil in South (even in colombo) has to know Sinhala to go to police because their entries are recorded in Sinhala. They cant get their work done in a ministry, in an urban council, state bank, provincial council ministry because they do not know Sinhala. Sometimes English knowledge doesn’t help u. So technically a tamil cannot live in his own country without knowing Sinhala. Steps must be taken to help a tamil to get his jobs done in his language. We should appoint officials in all the state sector institutions whether it is defence, bank, administrative to help the tamils to deal with things in their own language. These are not difficult tasks but practical ones which helps the tamils to integrate into SL.
In north and east, tamil speakers are the majority. Don’t bring race wise percentages cos I knw abt SL. I am not an Indian. SO the sensible thing is carrying out the administration in Tamil in those areas. The same way tamils are given space to do their duties in Tamil in south, the Sinhalese would be given the space to do their tasks in Sinhala in N&E. So u know that a tamil living in Colombo get his letters in Inland revenue in Sinhala (not even english)? Do I know tamils living in Jaffna get their letters from IR in Sinhala? Isnt that a bad system. I remember once we graduated from Uni all of us had to write our names in forms in Sinhala. I wondered how it would be for a Tamil. So machan things are not simple and rosy as u want to see.
Do u really live in SL? Sinhala nationalist have hijacked sri lankan identity. Mea dawas wala hamudurugolla meka Sinhala boudda rata kiala rata pura kagahanne. Hama thanama poster gahanne. Unta wiruddawa anduwa deyak kalada. Lankawa multi cultural n multi religious kiana eka nawatha nawathath kianna kagewath katak nane machan. Munta hondata lankan identity eka hijack karaganna deela ne thienne.
Umbata wisthara oni nam David Blacker kiala lankan soldier kenek athi me gana godak adhas dakwana, eyage adahas ehema tikak kiawala balanna. Especially in groundviews.
Most of people do not like this 13th amendment and provincial council system, what I'm trying to mention we should go for a better system which gives power to people BUT not thinking about a one race/religion/area. If minority ethnics have issues then it must be common to entire island. so why we should think about one ethnic in one area? what I want to mention is, solution must be cover entire country, entire Tamil community, entire Moor community.
Tamil walin thiyenne Lankawe jathika geeye parivarthanayak, English walinuth thiyenava. Lankawe bahuthara ayata 90% wage sinhala poddak hari puluvan, aduma gane rate jathiya geeya kiyanakota vath ekata enna barida?
Few years ago one Indian Tamil asked from me why SL cricket team has just 1 Tamil at that time. And he wanted more share in our team for Tamil players. lol That's how they think based on system and reservations in India. I told him I never check how many sinhalese or buddhists or tamils or moors in our team, I only care how many talented players in our team.
second experience from our country, SL driving licence is in English only. any Sinhalese or Tamils have issues with it? lol even we aren't 100% English speaking country.
who said we should go with Sinhala only? I mentioned the both Sinhala and Tamil and then English (coz we need to ready for the future too)
nope, not only in Sinhala, Tamil also using as a administration language. I never mentioned we must use just one language, I always mentioned we should go for 3 languages.
lol it's natural to both ethnics, mate.
again I have to give same answer,we can't find solution thinking one race and forgetting the rest! You are trying to find answer to one specific region, it's not the answer for this. Sinhalese and sinhala speaking citizens are there in those areas, they have same rights as others. lol That's why I have said we should go for 3 languages and government has already started that, This is bit hard in the first but the final result is cool.
humm, Im not sure whether u know about this. if anyone want any document in Tamil, they can have it. majority of government documents come with main 3 languages since many years now. There are some special cases, if you go to bank to take a credit or debit card you have to fill it in English only. hehe
rataka majority culture eka thamai rataka identity eka wenne. Sinhala/Sinhalese kiyanne lankavata vitharak unique una jathiyak. me rata hadila tiyenne sinhalayan mulika kara gaththu society ekakin. ae ae ratawalata mulika una jathiyak/culture ekak theyenava. UK wala suddage culture eka, Thailand wala Thai/ Thai Chinese evagema thava jathi jeevath wenava. meka onama rataka podu deyak, majority of a ethnic makes that country's identity, it's natural.
Time solves all problems!
