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A new nightmare is unfolding for one segment of the population. That would be gay men. They’re being targeted, tortured and killed in growing numbers. CNN’s Arwa Damon is in Baghdad. When this video sprung up on YouTube back in January, showing Iraqi gay men partying, it caused a terrifying backlash격렬한 반발. In this report released on Monday, Human Rights Watch warns of a ‘spreading campaign of torture and murder’ against Iraq gay community.

 

“They always used to hunt us. But after this video posted, it became much worse,” this gay man tells us. He and his three friends braved enough to speak out, but too frightened to have their identities revealed. What are some of the atrocities잔학행위 that are being committed against the gay community that you know of? “Many of my friends were killed and many others wounded or harmed,” the eldest among them says, “Some were tortured. They have started a war against us.” ‘I had my head on his shoulder,’ this man remembers, ‘Security forces stopped us and ordered us out of the car. They beat my boyfriend severely and put him in jail. He’s been there for four months.’

 

Some gay Iraqis have even been killed by their own families ashamed of the stigma치욕 surrounding homosexuality. This widely circulated cell phone video shows a transsexual being harassed by Iraqi police. ‘He was a hairdresser,’ his friend tells us, ‘He was killed by his family after the Iraqi police threatened to kill him. I heard that they even wanted to burn him alive.’

 

The Iraqi government says it condemns the murder or abuse of any of its citizens. According to Human Rights Watch, it is difficult to place an exact number on homosexuals killed. Indications are that the number is in the hundreds. Homosexuality is actually not illegal in Iraq. But there are very few if any laws that protect homosexuals. In fact, it’s quite to the contrary. According to the Human Rights Watch report, Iraq’s vague모호한 criminal court actually gives police and prosecutors broad scope대충의 영역 to punish people whose behavior, mannerisms독특한 버릇, or looks they quite simply just don’t like. Wolf?

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