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Sri Lanka to ban burqa and shut more than 1,000 Islamic schools, minister says
Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the face covering burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a…
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Sri Lanka Muslims protest Covid cremations
Sri Lanka’s minority Muslims demonstrated in Colombo Tuesday demanding an end to forced cremations of Covid-19 victims as Pakistan’s Prime…
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US senator defends the Muslims of Sri Lanka and demands an end to their burning
Democratic Senator from the US state of Maryland, Chris Van Hollen, called on Sri Lanka not to cremate the corpses…
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Britain concerned about the cremation of Corona victims in Sri Lanka
The British Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Sarah Holton, said that her country has expressed its concerns about the cremation of…
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Sri Lanka sticks to cremate COVID-19 Muslim victims
Brushing aside pressure from various Muslim countries to stop cremating Muslim bodies, Sri Lanka on Thursday declared that it will…
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After objections to forced cremation, Sri Lanka allows Muslims to bury the Covid-19 dead
The Sri Lankan Doctors Association has set conditions for burying the bodies of the dead due to the Coronavirus, following…
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Sri Lanka stokes Muslim and Christian ire with COVID burial rules
Predominantly Buddhist Sri Lanka’s ultranationalist government is forcing families of the country’s Muslim and Christian minorities to abandon their faith-based…
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Sri Lanka cremates Muslim Covid-19 victims; Free Muslim demands its end
The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, called on the Sri Lankan authorities to stop the work of cremating Muslim Covid-19…
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Sri Lanka: More than 100 thousand displaced Muslims living in difficult circumstances
The Island newspaper indicated the extent of the suffering faced by the Muslims of northern Sri Lanka, who were expelled…
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Anguish as Sri Lanka forces Muslims to cremate COVID-19 victims
The forced cremation of two COVID-19 infected Muslims in Sri Lanka has sent shock waves among the minority community, which…
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