An influential Tamil diaspora outfit extended support for the burial rights of the COVID-19 victims condemning the government policy of mandatory cremation.

The Global Tamil Forum (GTF), an umbrella outfit of Tamil diaspora organizations acorss the globe, urged the leaders of all communities to do all they can to have this irrational and discriminatory government policy reversed.

“Sri Lanka’s mandatory cremation policy has caused major outrage and trauma for the Muslim and Christian minorities, whose beliefs require dead bodies should be buried. It is the Muslim community that has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, and to force them to adopt practices that violate their fundamental religious beliefs is cruel and inhumane,” GTF said in a statement.

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