For most people, the effects of COVID-19 are already painful enough – the fear of contracting the virus, the fear of spreading it to others, the fear of seeing loved ones suffer, the fear of someone close dying. But for Sri Lanka’s Muslims there is yet another fear: the fear of not being able to bury your loved ones and being denied dignity in that final moment. COVID-19 victims are unjustly prevented from being laid to rest in accordance with their religious beliefs and are forcibly cremated. The act of cremating a dead body is forbidden in Islam. Sri Lanka is one of the few countries in the world which has made cremations mandatory for people who have died or are suspected as having died from COVID-19 furthermore organization such as WHO have guidelines originally permitting both burials and cremations earlier this year.
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