Sri Lanka: Language barrier cause for North and South divide</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Sri Lanka: Language barrier cause for North and South divide"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Sri,Lanka,Language,barrier,cause,for,North,and,South,divide"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">08-09-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Sri Lanka: Language barrier cause for North and South divide</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_1wMv5t1fpOnBCFjiJvTk_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Colombo, Sri Lanka (Daily News): The language barrier had contributed towards the widening divide between the North and South, Social Services and Social Welfare Minister Douglas Devananda said. The Minister said that it was his view that a language policy was needed where the Sinhalese had to learn Tamil and Tamils learn Sinhala. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/09/06/news25.asp " target="blank">www.dailynews.lk/2008/09/06/news25.asp </a></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show