An incident which demonstrates how the systemic racism works towards minorities in this country.
A Muslim in Galle who had a renal failure has died while he was undergoing dialysis in Kalubowila hospital where he gets his treatment regularly. (1/6)
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He was covid cleared before the dialysis. After the death, authorities have said he had covid, quarantined the family, PCRs done & all came negative. Authorities have forced the family to sign the paper to cremate the body. Since the person hasn't (2/6)
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person hasn't been anywhere except to the hospital & all the family members were negative, they have refused to sign & asked for the PCR report. While they refused to provide that, somehow they digged in & found no PCR has been done except for the one done
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the dialysis which came negative. Then they've forced authorities to do PCR & it has come negative. Therefore they were able to prevent from cremating.
Authorities know muslims don't want to cremate, so they use the power & blackmail
to do so.
Because of (4/6)
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few schools have been closed as the wife of this person is a teacher in a leading ladies school & their children go to leading schools in Galle.
If you ever feel like people don't love the country or etc, that's because you MAKE them not to. You make some (5/6) #racism #lka

decisions on very sensitive matterss for people based on NOTHING but NOTHING, use the power for faking and lying. Then label them traitors.

THIS IS SYSTEMIC RACISM
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#SriLanka #lka #racism
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