Mais de 30 Homossexuais assassinados no Iraque este ano

Dos Manzanas - "O ministro iraquiano do interior negou nos últimos dias que os homossexuais estejam a ser alvo de uma onda de assassinatos específicos, como denunciaram várias ONG's e organismos internacionais, assegurando que qualquer cidadão no Iraque, um país mergulhado num conflito civil, pode ser vítima de violência."

IRIN - "The Iraqi lesbian and gay community and NGOs dealing with gay issues have called for urgent action to protect gays and lesbians in the country. The groups say that the number of victims of “sexual cleansing” is growing on a daily basis.

“In the past three months, more than 30 gays have been executed in Baghdad. The bodies have been found tortured, mutilated - sometimes with signs of rape,” said Mustafa Salim, spokesman for the Rainbow for Life Organisation (RLO), a Baghdad-based gay rights NGO.

“Notes were found near some of the bodies with messages saying that this is going to be the fate for any Muslim who denies the Islamic religion,” Salim added.

RLO was set up in 2005, and Salim claims that since then they have recorded more than 230 cases of abuses against gays and lesbians, including more than 64 deaths - with the last three months being the most bloody.

“The gay community continues to be subjected to systematic terror by Shia militias, especially the Mahdy Army controlled by the religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr. The government of Iraq is refusing to offer protection,” he added.

''Armed Islamic groups and militias have been known to be particularly hostile towards homosexuals''
In an interview, one member of the Mahdy Army, Ali Hassany, said that the militia will target Iraq’s gays and lesbians.

“They deserve death. Those people are an embarrassment to our society. Killing such people is a job for their families, but if they cannot do so by their own hands, we will do it,” Hassany said. "

20minutos.es - "El asesinato de más de 30 homosexuales en lo que va de año ha hecho sonar las alarmas en Irak, y mientras el Gobierno de Bagdad niega que exista una "violencia especial" contra los homosexuales, diversas Organizaciones No Gubernamentales han comenzado a denunciar una situación que califican de "limpieza sexual"