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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Squandering American blood for rape and gay bashing
Posted by Jill | 5:53 AM
This is what our "noble" adventure in the Middle East has wrought? Legalized rape in Afghanistan, and summary execution of gays in Iraq:

LONDON, March 30, 2009 – Ground Zero for the so-called 'war on terror' is a nation where gays and lesbians live in real terror every day. Among the suffering of gay Iraqis is the regular threat (and carrying out) of rape and murder. In July, CNN reported on the case of a young gay man abducted for ransom and raped daily for more than two weeks.

More than 100 prisoners in Iraq are facing execution. Many of them, says an underground gay rights organization in the country, are believed to have been convicted of the 'crime' of being gay, the UK-based Iraqi-LGBT group revealed this afternoon.

According to Ali Hili of Iraqi-LGBT, the Iraqi authorities plan to start executing them in batches of 20 from this week. There is, said Hili, at least one member of Iraqi-LGBT who are among those to be put to death.

And the London-based group, which believes that a total of 128 executions are imminent, is calling on the UK Government, international human rights groups and the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva to intervene "with due speed" to prevent "this tragic miscarriage of justice" from going ahead.

"We have information and reports on members of our community whom been arrested and waiting for execution for the crimes of homosexuality," Mr Hili told UK Gay News.

"Iraqi-LGBT has been a banned from running activities on Iraqi soil," he revealed.

"Raids by the Iraqi police and Ministry of Interior forces cost our group [to the extent of] diapering and killing of 17 members working for Iraqi-LGBT since 2005.

"The death penalty has been increasing at an alarming rate in Iraq since the new Iraqi regime reintroduced it in August 2004.

"In 2008, at least 285 people were sentenced to death, and at least 34 executed. In 2007 at least 199 people were sentenced to death and 33 were executed, while in 2006 at least 65 people were put to death.

"The actual figures," Mr. Hili suggested, "could be much higher as there are no official statistics for the number of prisoners facing execution."


This is the "freedom" that the Bush Administration has wrought in Iraq. And so far the Obama Administration's Afghanistan policy does not appear to indicate any kind of attempts to overturn the recently-passed law legalizing rape in that country.

(h/t: Blue Girl)

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Blogger Taradharma said...
this is the first i've heard, and i watch and read plenty of news outlets. i'm disturbed, and disturbed i didn't know. thanks for posting the information. I'll be watching to see what happens....
4/2/09, 6:06 PM  
Blogger Taradharma said...
hi again,
i read Amnesty's blog, where this story gathers many of its facts. From reading the article posted at your site, I got the impression that most, if not all, the executions were targeted towards gay men. I glean different information from the Amnesty site. It is still deplorable what the gov't is doing, and I don't doubt that gays are targeted in Iraq - I just want to clarify that it is a broader issue that gays being targeted. Peace.
4/2/09, 6:26 PM  
Blogger Distributorcap said...
but they have oil, so none of this matters 8-(

ugh...... sad thing is why would this surprise us.....

i hate this war, i hate the past president,
4/2/09, 7:39 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...
>And so far the Obama Administration's Afghanistan policy does not appear to indicate any kind of attempts to overturn the recently-passed law legalizing rape in that country.

I guess this would be the return to the much-touted "realism" in foreign policy.
4/2/09, 8:32 PM  
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