Tag: Muslims

A leading Muslim organisation in Sri Lanka will this week send an official letter of concern to the global Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the World Muslim Congress, seeking their intervention to urge the Sri Lankan government to allocate a decent land for the burial of Muslim COVID-19 victims.

The residents, all Tamils, ask government to stop making their little island a graveyard

The Pakistan PM’s successful intercession in the COVID dead burial issue has created a role for Pakistan in solving Sri Lankan Muslims’ problems

A statement from the OIC and Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s intercession in the context of the UNHRC session could have been the immediate reasons.

More than 200 Muslim coronavirus victims have been cremated, according to the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka. The country’s overall death toll is 384.

The coming UNHRC session and the visit of the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan may have influenced the reversal of the highly divisive policy of not allowing the burial of COVID victims

The Pottuvil-Poligandy long march united antagonistic Tamil parties and brought together disparate Tamil-speaking communities including Muslims

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa indicated that he will safeguard the interest of the majority Sinhala Buddhists, usher in uniform laws, and keep the unitary character of the constitution.

Joe Biden will sign 15 executive actions after he is sworn in as U.S. president on Wednesday, aides said, undoing policies put in place by outgoing President Donald Trump and making his first moves on the pandemic and climate change.

The Sinhala-Muslim political rift shapes government policy, not scientific evidence