RE: Groups Of at Least 40 Gays And Lesbians Murdered In Iraq by a group of the Shiite militia.

This never happened nor would had happened under Saddam Hussein.
What goes around comes around.

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Group Of at Least 40 Gays And Lesbians Murdered In Iraq

Group Of 40 Gays And Lesbians Murdered In Iraq
Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 06 March 2012
Tags: iraq, middle east, murder, groups, mass, lgbt, gays, lesbians,
iglhrc, international, shiite

A troubling report today from the International Gay & Lesbian Human
Rights Commission informs the global LGBT community that mass groups
of homosexuals are being murdered in Iraq. Details follow.

From the IGLHRC:

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission has today
received reports from Iraq of a wave of targeted killings of
individuals who are perceived to be gay or lesbian. According to Iraqi
human rights activists, in early February 2012, an unidentified group
posted death threats against "the adulterous individuals" in the
predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad and Basra. The threats
gave the individuals, whose names and ages were listed, four days to
stop their behavior or else face the wrath of God, and were to be
carried out by the Mujahedin. According to sources inside Iraq, as the
result of this new surge of anti-gay violence close to 40 people have
been kidnapped, brutally tortured and murdered. The Iraqi authorities
have neither responded to this targeted violence nor have they
publicly denounced it. It is widely believed that these atrocities are
being committed by a group of the Shiite militia.

"Today the Government of Iraq represents a fully sovereign and
democratic country," said IGLHRC Executive Director Cary Alan Johnson.
"As such, it must protect all of its citizens including lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender people from hate-filled violence and death at
the hands of armed militias. Vigilantes who perpetuate the targeted
killing of those perceived to be gay or lesbian must not be tolerated
in a new Iraq. We have seen these atrocities before. In 2009
vigilantes murdered hundreds of Iraqi individuals for their perceived
sexual orientation. There are no excuses for such heinous human rights
violations. We demand that the Iraqi Government put a stop to the
wanton persecution and killing of gay people, and that the
perpetrators punished."

More:
http://instinctmagazine.com/blogs/blog/group-of-40-gays-and-lesbians-murdered-in-iraq?directory=100011

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