One of the country’s biggest chapters of Buddhist Monks, the joint Amarapura-Ramanna sect, is asking President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to permit the burial of the remains of Christians and Muslims who die of COVID-19.

This is the first time that a major group of Buddhist Monks have taken a stand to allow burials since the controversy broke in April. A letter sent to the President is also signed by the former Bishop of the Methodist Church Fr Asiri Perera, Fr Jayalath Balagalle from the Roman Catholic Ampitiya Seminary and Kurukukkal P Sivaloganathan of the Sanatana Dharma Research centre.

Signed by the joint Registrars of the Amarapura and Ramanna sects, the letter addressed to the president says the decision to send the appeal to the head of state was made after lengthy discussions with the sect’s Inter-religious Sub-Committee.

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