Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Body Rejected For Burial In Cambridge Hometown Among Other Places: Americans Not Keen On Buring Bombers Body On American Soil

It has been more than two weeks since the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and a funeral director remains unable to find a place that will bury his body, not even within his hometown.

Funeral director Peter Stephan told USA Today that he has been unable to find a cemetery in Massachusetts that will take Tsarnaev's body.  His next order of business, he said, would be to ask the city of Cambridge, in which he had lived, to provide a burial plot.  He said that if Cambridge turns him down he will have to seek help from state officials.

On Sunday, officials from the city of Cambridge announced that the cemeteries within the city said that they would reject the body for burial along with the other local cemeteries that had already rejected it, the Los Angeles Times reports.

In a statement on Sunday, Healy said that there has not yet been a formal application for a burial permit or purchase of a cemetery plot in the Cambridge area and he urges Tsarnaev's family members and Stefan not to request a burial permit for the city-owned cemetery, according to USA.

"I have determined that it is not in the best interest of peace within the city to execute a cemetery deed for a plot within the Cambridge Cemetery for the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev," said Robert Healy, City Manager of Cambridge, according to Daily Mail.

"The difficult and stressful efforts of the citizens of the city of Cambridge to return to a peaceful life would be adversely impacted by the turmoil, protests, and widespread media presence at such an interment," Healy said in a statement provided to the LA Times. "The families of loved ones interred in the Cambridge Cemetery also deserve to have their deceased family members rest in peace."

Healy said that federal agencies should take control of the burial, USA reports.

Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, arrived in Massachusetts this past weekend in order to arrange for the burial of his nephew and to wash and shroud the body with the help of three friends, according to Muslim tradition, USA reports. Tsarni, of Maryland, said he understands that "no one wants to associate their names with such evil events."

Tsarni explained to reporters that he is arranging for his nephew's burial because of religious tradition which requires that he be buried, according to USA.  He would like him to be buried in Massachusetts, being that Tsarnaev had lived there for the last ten years.

Tsarni denounced the acts that his nephew is said to have committed saying that they brought shame on his family and the entirety of the Chechen community, USA reports.  He said he hopes to eventually be able to see Tsarnaev's brother, Dzhokhar, who is in a prison hospital facing a potential death sentence if convicted of and act of terrorism.  "This is another person left all to himself," Tsarni said.

Stefan has been criticized for agreeing to handle Tsarnaev's funeral and people have gone so far as to call him "un-American," USA reports.  "I'm dealing with logistics. A dead person must be buried," Stefan said.  "We take an oath to do this. Can I pick and choose? No. Can I separate the sins from the sinners? No."

"America has not taken easily to burying its least-popular criminals," wrote the LA Times.  Past attackers, such as the 9/11 plane hijackers have also been left unclaimed and unwanted throughout U.S. cemeteries.

A half dozen protestors gathered outside of the funeral home on Sunday holding up signs and chanting in protest to the idea of burying Tsarnaev's body on U.S. soil, according to USA.