{"id":10536,"date":"2021-03-03T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2021-03-03T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T10:30:03","slug":"protest-launched-in-iranaitivu-against-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/protest-launched-in-iranaitivu-against-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest launched in Iranaitivu against proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents of Iranaitivu Island in the Gulf of Mannar staged a protest today against a proposal to bury the bodies of COVID-19 victims on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government yesterday announced that a plot of land on the island has been selected to carryout burials of Covid victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government also announced that six more locations, including Mannar and Ampara have also been considered for the burial of Covid victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the announcement, residents in Iranaitivu have opposed moves to bury Covid victims in the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to reports, some local residents have closed graves dug by the Navy to bury Covid victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tamil politicians have also objected to attempts to bury Muslim coronavirus victims in Iranaitivu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protest is being staged, amidst calls by the Opposition, civil society, and the Muslim community urging the Government to permit the burial of Muslim Covid victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remains of all COVID-19 victims have been cremated to-date under the existing health guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Iranaitivu Island in the Gulf of Mannar staged a protest today against&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10537,"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-10536","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\/10536","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=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}