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It is reported that the Ministry of Health has decided to use a deserted island for the burials of Covid-19 deceased. The Ministry is in the process of identifying such an island in this regard and the guidelines for burying Covid-19 deceased will be delayed until then, according to sources. …

At last, after nearly 12 months of agony and trauma, and close to 350 forced cremation of Corona-killed Muslims, President Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa (NGR) had relented and issued a gazette notification restoring a controversially lost Muslim human right. Muslim community would indeed have a great sigh of relief, and there may be several among …

Sri Lanka was to inform in writing to the General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) yesterday about its decision to allow the burial of Muslim Covid-19 victims, Daily Mirror learns. The Government decided to reverse its mandatory cremation policy based on recommendations by the technical committee of …

The gazette on allowing the burials of COVID-19 deceased has been sent to the department of government printing, minister S.M. Chandrasena has said. He said that health minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi had conveyed this matter during a party leaders meeting held on Thursday. “The technical committee has declared that the bodies …

Sri Lanka has categorically rejected the conclusions and recommendations in the UN High Commissioner’s Report. Foreign Affairs Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said the recommendations are based on ill-founded allegations. “This is in complete violation of Article 2 (7) of the Charter of the UN that states: “Nothing contained in the present …

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has vowed to support judicial proceedings in other countries against perpetrators of grave human rights violations in Sri Lanka, after the Government had effectively closed the door to achieving justice locally for alleged war time abuses. In her statement to the 46th …

She clutches her shawadi to her bosom, cradling it as if it were the most precious thing she has.  “Thangachi..”, I gently call her. She doesn’t respond. I see her hands tighten around her shawadi with clenched fists that show her knuckles white. She rocks herself, I’m not sure if …