Linguistic discrimination in Sri Lanka</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Linguistic discrimination in Sri Lanka"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Linguistic,discrimination,in,Sri,Lanka"> </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">06-12-2004</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>Linguistic discrimination in Sri Lanka</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Colombo, Sri Lanka: According to a report published on December 4 by Tamil.net, linguistic discrimination is continuing in Sri Lanka: "In the Employment Provident Unit (EPF) of the ministry only two Tamils are working and that also in minor grade. No Tamil translators are employed in the ministry which earlier employed five translators. All forms related to EPF claims are in Sinhala only. The constitution of the country has stipulated that Sinhala and Tamil are official languages. But the government is not implementing that language policy in true spirit. Payments to more than 5,000 EPF claims of Tamils are still pending for want of Tamil translators." <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=13560" target="blank">www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=13560</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show