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Sri Lanka: Covid-19 Forced Cremation of Muslims Discriminatory Format Baseless Public Health Claims Smokescreen for Persecuting Minority (New York) – Sri Lanka’s requirement to cremate anyone who dies from Covid-19 goes against public health guidance and discriminates against the Muslim community, Human Rights Watch said today. The government’s spurious argument that burial in accordance with Islamic tradition poses a public health risk stigmatizes, oppresses, and causes immense distress to a vulnerable minority. The Sri Lankan government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has claimed that...

At time of a pandemic, the issue of creamation or burial is neither religious nor political, but scientific.  This is in response to the opinion expressed by Tharindu Dananjaya Weerasinghe in The Island of 13 January, on the burial issue. The writer argues that the issue of cremation, or burial, should not be decided by politics or by religion. In other words, he says it should be decided by science. I do agree with him and add it should be decided by empirical research findings of experts and scientists. Muslims believe that a corpse of a Muslim should be buried, but at a time of a pandemic...

Kusal Mendis picked up a fourth consecutive duck in the first Test against England in Galle on Thursday In these troubled times of COVID-19, many being house bound, it is no wonder that many watch any sport on TV. Hence the insults that come from diverse quarters for underperforming teams is more than the usual. This morning at our bridge club many have rubbed our noses for the mighty incompetence shown by the Lankan cricketers. I am not a cricket writer but I am an avid spectator and, moreover, as a non-resident Sri Lankan, who gets a momentary kick out of anything that makes Sri Lanka proud...

Youth for Justice Sri Lanka has called a media discussion on January 7 on the government’s decision to cremate Covid-19 positive victims. The organization said the move has created several news cycles, but was aggravated when an infant was forcefully cremated last month. The silent protest against the forceful cremation of Covid-19 victims of Islamic […]

By Norman Palihawadana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has asked government MPs not to be confined to their homes, but to reach out to the people by visiting their respective electorates and resolving the grievances faced by the masses at a time the country is facing a grave pandemic situation. “I have asked Ministers and government […]