Sri Lankan Muslims resist cremation of corona victims in Sri Lanka !

• Will those who resist the practices beneficial to nature and fellow humans just on religious grounds ever think about the welfare of the society ?  
• Cremation as per the Hindu Dharma takes care of all the viruses. It protects the corpse from the attack of negative energies. Cremation also saves land. Burial  leads to many problems !

Colombo (Sri Lanka) – The Sri Lankan Government has made it mandatory to cremate corona victims’ dead bodies. As a result the dead are being cremated regardless of what religion they belonged to.

However, the Muslims have raised objections to this ‘forced cremation’. 15 dead Muslims including a 20 day old infant have been cremated as of 16^th December 2020. The latest cremation has seen heightened protests against Government’s cremation policy. Earlier a petition filed in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka was rejected by the Court.

Muslims in Sri Lanka 'denied justice' over forced cremations of Covid victims https://t.co/s6Xt6BSfD4

— The Guardian (@guardian) December 4, 2020

1. In April 2020 when the pandemic situation worsened, Buddhist monks had demanded that all corona victims irrespective of their religion be cremated. They had claimed that burying bodies could contaminate ground water and spread the virus.
2. The question has now been raised that if Sri Lankan citizen dies abroad then how the funeral should be conducted ? Sri Lanka has refused to repatriate their dead.