How America and Britain are Helping Iraq Kill Its Queers

[Shana A]

How America and Britain are Helping Iraq Kill Its Queers

http://www.queerty.com/how-america-and-britain-are-helping-iraq-kill-its-queers-20100624/

We already mentioned the 12 Iraqi police officers who beat up, blindfolded, and carried off six occupants of an "emergency shelter" run by the UK-based Iraqi LGBT. The group says the two gay men, one lesbian, and one transgender person arrested have been transported to Baghdad to be interrogated (i.e. tortured) for information about the group. If past experience is any indicator, these individuals are at serious risk of ending up in the hands of a radical Muslim militia to be mutilated, killed, and abandoned. Iraqi LGBT says the action reeks of the police and state modus operandi, but while the American and British governments have stood by promising to "investigate," they've done nothing because of a lack of evidence and "religious sensitivities." Does foreign inaction make them an accomplice to gay genocide?

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Given that the western forces are responsible for over a million deaths, the utter destruction of an ancient society, the complete breakdown of any sort of order, the economy, driving huge numbers of young girls into prostitution, the rape, murder and torture of numerous civilians. Apparently so the various leaders could each get a nice little share of the local oil. These aditional murders, however disgusting, are a relative drop in the ocean of this major war crime.

The real question is why we, in those countries whose forces were used for this personal profiteering, are sitting on our backsides?