{"id":103544,"date":"2020-06-15T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T22:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103544"},"modified":"2020-06-15T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T22:24:05","slug":"the-world-is-in-flames-because-of-racism-but-the-british-racism-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/15\/the-world-is-in-flames-because-of-racism-but-the-british-racism-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WORLD IS IN FLAMES BECAUSE OF RACISM BUT THE BRITISH RACISM CONTINUES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>@bhcolombo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/239160736438175\/?ref=gs&amp;fref=gs&amp;dti=1455994621364831&amp;hc_location=group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UK SRI LANKAN EVENTS &amp; NEWS<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British High Commission says it is an inclusive &amp;\ndiversity-friendly employer\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British High Commission says it encourages applications\nfrom people of ALL BACKGROUNDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The British High Commission says We\ndo not DISCRIMINATE on the basis of RACE, COLOUR, ETHNICITY\u201d but it places a\nvacancy for a POLITICAL OFFICER that is purposely EXCLUDING THE ONE MAJORITY\nCOMMUNITY IN SRI LANKA (the Sinhalese)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The language proficiency that the\nBritish High Commission seeks is an excellent command in written &amp; spoken\nEnglish &amp; Tamil. Clearly, Sinhalese is excluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Highcommission1R.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Highcommission1R.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Highcommission1R-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Highcommission2R.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Highcommission2R.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Highcommission2R-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Highcommission3R.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Highcommission3R.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Highcommission3R-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally Political Officers appointed\nby Foreign Missions are to provide the Mission inputs on ALL THE COMMUNITIES\nbut in this case the British High Commission is seeking someone who reports on\nthe LOCAL DYNAMICS IN THE NORTH &amp; EAST, MINORITY POLITICS\u201d MONITORING\nNORTH &amp; EAST\u201d &amp; ISSUES IMPACTING TAMIL &amp; MUSLIM COMMUNITIES\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are not stupid not to read the\nintention behind this advert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fco.tal.net\/vx\/lang-en-GB\/mobile-0\/appcentre-1\/brand-2\/candidate\/so\/pm\/4\/pl\/1\/opp\/12197-Political-Officer-B3-Colombo-maternity-leave-cover\/en-GB\">https:\/\/fco.tal.net\/vx\/lang-en-GB\/mobile-0\/appcentre-1\/brand-2\/candidate\/so\/pm\/4\/pl\/1\/opp\/12197-Political-Officer-B3-Colombo-maternity-leave-cover\/en-GB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka News @bhcolombo UK SRI LANKAN EVENTS &amp; NEWS The British High Commission says it is an inclusive &amp; diversity-friendly employer\u201d. The British High Commission says it encourages applications from people of ALL BACKGROUNDS. The British High Commission says We do not DISCRIMINATE on the basis of RACE, COLOUR, ETHNICITY\u201d but it places a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}