Nepal Accused Of 'Sexual Cleansing'

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/01/011306nepal.htm

An international human rights organization has joined local LGBT activists in accusing the government of Nepal of trying to wipe out gays and transsexuals.

In a harshly worded letter to the Home Ministry, Human Rights Watch calls on the government " to intervene to ensure that allegations of police abuse are fully investigated."

"Human Rights Watch is gravely concerned by a continuing pattern of arbitrary arrest and police violence against metis (men by birth who identify as women, and might in different cultural circumstances be called transgender people), men who have sex with men, and activists for sexual rights in Kathmandu," the letter signed by Scott Long, the director of HRW's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program.

The latest reported incident occurred on January 3 when four police officers reportedly spotted a group of metis on the street in Katmandu.and shouted, “Metis! Kill them!”

[Strong Atheist]

1. "trying to wipe out gays and transsexuals."

This is not only evil, it is impossible. It seems that a certain portion of the population will always be GLBT, for whatever reason (I lean to hormonal factors, but it doesn't matter). Thus this is impossible, and SOOO wrong.

[kenny blankenship]

2. They'll settle for close approximations

which are possible.

[closeupready]

3. If the tone is set at the top,

then part of the blame belongs to politically ascendent xtian fundies in the US who want to relegate gays and lesbians to second-class status.

Nepal sees this happening, and the government - seeking to curry favor with the powerful - tries to relegate their own gays and transexuals to second-class status. "See? We're just like you are. Can we have most-favored nation trading status now?"

The fact that their methods are more totalitarian is a difference of degree, IMHO.

[DarkTirade]

4. Considering gays don't usually do much in the way of reproducing

and the fact that they're still there after thousands of years... yeah... kinda pointless.