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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lovethebomb" data-source="post: 26218505" data-attributes="member: 531830">Let’s remember that an oxbridge guy, who himself didn't have a handle of Sinhala or cared enough to learn it properly, pushed this act. The deed was as good as current nakiya trying to virtue signal by senselessly uphailing ethno-centric views.Why do I say it was a dirty trick? Well he could have easily attempted to promote Sinhalese nationalism without going for a bar-iron rule of a Sinhala Only Act (the name alone is distasteful), knowing very well that this is going to impose problems for the ethnic minorities. Not only did this deteriorated our chances of becoming global citizens, we inherited a three decade worth of civil war thanks to it.</blockquote>

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