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Sri Lanka’s language problem explained-by Kalani Kumarasinghe The Attorney General and the Chinese ambassador unveiled the plaque which carried the controversial Mandarin text Source:Dailymirror The Attorney General’s Department has come under fire since the opening of an internal library facility on Wednesday, May 19. Attorney General Dappula de Livera and Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong were photographed unveiling a plaque, of which the text appeared in Sinhala, English and Mandarin. Following social media backlash, especially on Twitter, the Attorney General’s Department said that the plaque was removed on Saturday.  “The plaque did not contain the script in Tamil, by an inadvertent omission,” a spokesperson for the outgoing Attorney General said.  A new plaque with all four languages will soon be erected, the Department assured. The Chinese Embassy was quick to respond on Twitter to mounting criticisms, that as the facility was an internal E-Library of the Attorney General’s Department, funded by ...