Gays in Afghanistan
We were pleased to read your July 10 editorial condemning the Taliban militia’s shocking human rights abuses against women in Afghanistan. It is dismaying, however, that you completely ignored that regime’s recent campaign of torture and execution of gay men. Throughout the world these two issues are inextricably linked.
The Afghan “solution” of choice is to place accused gay men next to a brick wall, then crush them to death as a tank collapses the wall. Other gay men have been publicly beaten and dragged through the streets of Kabul with blackened faces. Some jurists oppose these barbaric methods, preferring simply to hurl gay men out of tall buildings or burn them alive.
As in America, oppression of women and of those with differing sexual orientation go hand in hand.
ANDY BALL
Public Policy Manager
Gay & Lesbian Center
Los Angeles
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