Gay Child Executed In Iraq

[AtomicKitten]

LONDON, May 4, 2006 – Gay human rights group Outrage! has today accused Iraqi police of executing a 14 year old boy in the al-Dura district of Baghdad in early April. Ahmed Khalil was accused of corrupting the community and creating a scandal because he had sex with men.

“Ahmed was, in fact, a victim of poverty. He sold his body to get money and food to help his impoverished family survive,” said Ali Hili, an exiled gay Iraqi who is Middle East Affairs spokesperson for the London-based OutRage!.

“According to a neighbour, who witnessed Ahmed’s execution from his bedroom window, four uniformed police officers arrived at Ahmed's house in a four-wheel-drive police pick-up truck.

“The neighbour saw the police drag Ahmed out of the house and shoot him at point-blank range, pumping two bullets into his head and several more bullets into the rest of his body.”

http://ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/2006may/0401.htm

[shain from kane]

1. What happened to the other participants? n/t

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. This is a sad and broken world

when we do this to our young.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Freedum is on the... whatever!

[KansDem]

4. This wasn't an execution...it was a lynching.

You don't "execute" someone "accused" of something.

edited for word choice

[kurth]

5. Another day in Bush's Iraq

Democracy, freedom, human rights, due process, rule of law, and all that shit.

[shain from kane]

6. From the duplicate posting, here is some additional information.

>>>>>Campaign groups have warned of a surge in homophobic killings by state security services and religious militias following an anti-gay and anti-lesbian fatwa issued by Iraq's most prominent Shia leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

Ali Hili, the co-ordinator of a group of exiled Iraqi gay men who monitor homophobic attacks inside Iraq, said the fatwa had instigated a "witch-hunt of lesbian and gay Iraqis, including violent beatings, kidnappings and assassinations".

"Young Ahmed was a victim of poverty," he said. "He was summarily executed, apparently by fundamentalist elements in the Iraqi police.">>>>>

The key is "fundamentalist elements in the Iraqi police".

Aren't we supposed to be training them?

[shain from kane]

7. Sorry. Here is the URL from the other article. Not actually a duplicate,

but another version of the same story.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article362151.ece