{"id":10266,"date":"2020-12-24T07:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2020-12-24T07:31:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:31:39","slug":"government-should-make-a-final-decision-on-last-rites-without-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/government-should-make-a-final-decision-on-last-rites-without-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Government should make a final decision on last rites without delay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government should make a final decision on the last rites of those who succumb to COVID19 without further delay, National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) said yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NMSJ President former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said the government should follow the guidelines of WHO and ensure that last rites of those who succumb are done in a dignified manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGovernment seems to be dragging the issue without making a proper decision with regard to the issue.a considerable number of bodies of some Muslims remain in freezers is ample proof for this situation,\u201d Mr. Jayasuriya said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBurying Muslims who succumb to COVID-19 in another country is a disrespectful act where those people are concerned and the country as a whole,\u201d he added referring to reports which said Sri Lanka is in discussion with the Maldives to bury Muslims who succumb to COVID-19 in that country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNMSJ is saddened by this move to bury Muslims who die of COVID-19 in another country,\u201d he also said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government should make a final decision on the last rites of those who succumb&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}