Jul 26, 2007Quickie Link: New Iraqi Gay Murders Confirmed -- By Doug Ireland
By vanrozenheim
(Iraq) - A new wave of assassinations of Iraqi gays - part of the organized campaign of "sexual cleansing" of homosexuals that has been one of the saddest byproducts of the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq - has been confirmed by Iraqi LGBT, the all-volunteer, London-based group of gay Iraqi exiles that has been documenting the grim work of the Islamist anti-gay death squads in Iraq. Ali Hili from Iraqi LGBT told me this week of the following new confirmed murders and arrests of gay Iraqis, all of which occurred at the beginning of this month. In the small Southern Iraqi town of al-Simawa two gay friends, aged 29 and 30, received death threats targeting their homosexuality. Within a few days, the two young men were assassinated.
