FED:Row over boat victims' funerals=3

AAP General News (Australia)
02-15-2011
FED:Row over boat victims' funerals=3

Meanwhile, some families are upset the services will not follow Muslim burial traditions.

Other families, also concerned the funerals will not adhere to Muslim traditions, have
decided to send bodies back to Iraq for burial in a proper religious ceremony.

Jamal Daoud from the Social Justice Network says families also are worried the government
is hiding something because the immigration department has not allowed them to view the
bodies of victims.

"It's not only to see the body only, but to wash the body, to clean the body, you know,
and to say goodbye to the body, and this is very important," he told ABC Radio.

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KEYWORD: BOAT FUNERAL UPDATE 3 CANBERRA (REOPENS)

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