Iraqi police 'killed 14-year-old boy for being homosexual'

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

Human rights groups have condemned the "barbaric" murder of a 14-year-old boy, who, according to witnesses, was shot on his doorstep by Iraqi police for the apparent crime of being gay.

Ahmed Khalil was shot at point-blank range after being accosted by men in police uniforms, according to his neighbours in the al-Dura area of Baghdad.

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."

[BlueEyedSon]

1. doop

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2608015

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Looks like Bush really IS spreading his form of democracy...

:cry:

[YDogg]

3. Yup. Sounds like part of bush's plan.