Language issues violates human rights!
Journalist Joseph Nayan has complained to the Human Rights Commission that human rights are being violated by those who speak the sister language.
Joseph Nayan (27), a journalist residing at No. 82, Shanthipuram, Mannar, made the complaint on March 10, 2022, stating that the officers working in the offices of the Department of Wildlife Resources, the Department of Wildlife and the Department of Archeology in the Mannar District work in sister languages. That communication problems have arisen as a result.
He said that human rights had been violated during the period 2021-2022 due to language issues, administrative weaknesses and language policy.
In the complaint, Mr. Joseph Nayan demands that all institutions should ensure the right to language. At a time when the implementation of the Tamil language in Sri Lanka has become a common problem, this problem has been exacerbated by the activities of sister-speaking government officials in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, where the majority of Tamils live. As the top officials of the departments work in the sister language, those who can only transact in Tamil have to face various difficulties in fulfilling their needs and hence their rights have not been violated. As a solution to this, the government took steps to improve the Tamil language skills of Sinhala public servants and to improve the Sinhala language skills of Tamil public servants.
Appointing officers who can work in the Tamil language to serve in areas where the Tamil population is predominant will bring many benefits and the projects launched by the government will be able to reach out to the people without any change. Launching such a program will provide an opportunity to prevent human rights abuses.
– Journalist Joseph Nayan
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