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Lanka is ready to impose new low against slaughter of cattle due to protests staged throughout the country last few months. The
Legal Draftsman's Department of Sri Lanka has been directed to draft
legislation against the slaughter of cattle in the country. The President has
instructed the Legal Draftsman's Department to draft the necessary legislation
to ban cattle slaughter, the local media reported. According to the report, the
drafting of the legislation is expected to be finalized within the next two
months.
Meanwhile, the Cooperatives and Internal Trade
Ministry has been instructed to import beef. A Sinhalese Buddhist movement, the
Sihala Ravaya has been campaigning for the banning of cattle slaughter in the
country and in May this year a Buddhist monk of the Sinhala Ravaya organization
self-immolated to protest cattle slaughter.
Following ongoing protest against the slaughter of cattle recently President Mahinda Rajapaksa promised the Sinhala Buddhist nationalist
organization, Sihala Ravaya that he would take steps to ban cattle slaughter in
Sri Lanka within the next two months. The Chief Priest of the Sihala Ravaya
organization, who marched all the way from Kataragama to Colombo in protest of
cattle slaughter, met President Rajapaksa and handed over a petition. President
of the Sihala Ravaya organization, Ven. Akmeemana Dayarathana Thera has
requested the President to impose the ban urgently and take necessary measures
to import beef.
