New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): India on Wednesday called on Sri Lanka to ensure the early release of fishermen arrested recently on the charge of poaching in Sri Lankan waters.
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The United States (US) has already commenced laying groundwork to bring a new UN Resolution against Sri Lanka during the 46th Council meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, next March.
Leading the front, the US and UK are working together to introduce a fresh UN resolution after the government declared that it withdrew from the UN Resolution 30/1 which was co-sponsored by the previous ‘Good Governance’ government in 2015 after the Cabinet also upheld the decision. Thereafter, the same resolution was adopted twice as rollover resolutions numbered 34/1 and 40/1 respectively. The resolution deals with wartime accountability measures and reconciliation efforts in postwar Sri Lanka.
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Despite the pandemic, the Maldives has in recent months seen a tourism revival. Fears are expressed that the move to bury Sri Lanka Muslims dying of COVID-19 in the Maldives may have an adverse impact on the tourism sector.
A move to bury in neighbouring Maldives Sri Lankan Muslims, who die of coronavirus infection, has misfired.
Both Colombo and Male have mysteriously dropped the move without adducing any reason. Perhaps they realised that the exercise is fraught with many political and international implications for the two countries. This is besides the opposition mounting in the archipelago, a tourist paradise with blue waters and white sandy beaches. Both Covid-19 victims and all other dead are buried in a cemetery located near the
Colombo, Sri Lanka – Muslims in Sri Lanka are outraged over the forced cremation of a 20-day-old COVID-19 victim last week against the family’s wishes, the latest in more than a dozen such cremations in the Buddhist-majority country since the pandemic erupted.
Ignoring the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines which permit both burials and cremations, Sri Lanka in March made cremation mandatory for people who die or are suspected to have died from the coronavirus infection.
On December 9, baby Shaykh was forcibly cremated in a cemetery in Borella, the largest suburb of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo – the youngest among 15 Muslims to be cremated, thereby denying them Islamic funeral rites.