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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject: Hunting GAYS in Iraq: how the death squads work |
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WTF? We've created this hell hole known as 'liberated Iraq' and we're now refusing to allow its inhabitants safe haven? Not really surprised...
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One of Hussein�s best friends, Haydar, was recently found shot in the back of the head at a deserted ranch outside the city. �Some say he was shot by a family member in an act of honor killing; some say he was shot by those so-called death squads,� Hussein says. �Everyone says it�s easy these days to get away with killing gays, since there is no law and order here.�
All Hussein thinks about is getting out of Iraq. �Things were bad under Saddam for gays,� he says, �but not as bad as now. Then, no one feared for their lives. Now, you can be gotten rid of at any time.�
But even fleeing from Iraq to a democratic Western nation is no guarantee of safety. The case of Ibaa Al-alawi, a well-educated 28-year-old gay Iraqi who fled from Baghdad to London last fall and is facing deportation, is sadly typical. �I am a victim of this religious, homophobic ideology imported from Iran by SCIRI and the Badr Corps,� says Al-alawi, who was born in to a secular family and speaks perfect English, via telephone from London. �The Badr Corps is very well-organized�they control two floors of the Iraqi Interior Ministry [in London] and they wear police uniforms.� |
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The next day he bought a plane ticket for London, where he applied for asylum on arrival. But his request was refused by the Home Office, which handles immigration in the United Kingdom. �They told me, �We believe that you face discrimination in Iraq, but we don�t believe you are persecuted.� I even showed them a photo of me next to Tony Blair from when I worked at their embassy, but it didn�t help.�
In the first week of August, Al-alawi�s administrative appeal against the Home Office�s deportation order was denied. At press time he was in court, seeking to stop the Blair government from sending him back to Iraq. �My life is in serious danger if I�m sent back to Iraq,� he says. �You know, I have a master�s degree in English literature�to think that a cheap bullet from the Badr Corps could end it all�what a waste of an education.� |
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