COLOMBO : President Ranil Wickremesinghe has already expressed in Parliament what I call an explanatory regret, not apology. That is at best a qualified statement, intended to protect those who implemented the policy rather than unreservedly condemn it.
During his Parliamentary speech, he stressed that his government would introduce a “burial bill” soon, in order to ensure that the right to burial remained unaffected. Such a Bill is not warranted at all today. Burial is people’s natural right, which can never be taken away, leave aside restricted, by government. What is now required therefore is not BURIAL BILL. What is MOST IMPORTANT, however, is to BURY ALL THE BILLS that seek to deny or curtail the rights of the people of Sri Lanka, which the government plans to introduce in Parliament.
