

Emo in Iraq: From Shafaaq News










A friend in Iraq writes:



He also writes:




Emos: From shatnews.com





24 thoughts on ““Gay killings,” emos, and Iraq: What’s going on

  1. im from iraq ^^
    and im not an emo but !
    they are now killing the gay boys and the emo ones !! not just that and they are taking names from the identities from everyone who his haid is tall or western style !!!
    they killing them with concrete block !!

    they are not humans !! i can tell that they don’t have even a soul !

      • Hi my friend,
        Your email bounced back. Thank you for writing here. I am a human rights activist who did research
        on killings of gay people in Iraq in 2009. You can answer me by writing to scottlong1980@gmail.com. I promise I’ll keep anything you say private unless you say otherwise.

        Where are you? Are you safe? Has anyone threatened you directly?

        Do you know people who have been threatened or hurt?

        Please let me know if you can. If you’ve got any information, like
        links to news articles in Iraq, that would be really helpful too.

        Please stay safe. Best, Scott

  2. Are you saying LGBT media should not report Gay killings in Iraq because others are targets too? We know Gays are targets. Do you really believe silencing international media is going to help? How specifically does it make it worse? There is a duty to report, surely?

    • Well, I’m not sure how much we really know at all, including who’s responsible and what their motives are. Certainly no one is talking about silencing anyone; but surely t there’s a duty to report context accurately. If the panic in Iraq is first of all about emos and “deviant” kids, then just talking about “gay killings” doesn’t give the right picture. And surely killing children is not less important to us than killing gays. How can we start to respond unless we figure out where this is coming from?


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  5. The problem is much bigger than this ….about two weeks ago, a spokesman for the Iraqi interior ministry has declared a state of hard crack down on the “Emo phenomenon”. It has been falsely associated with homosexual orientation as well as Satanism by Radical religious factions. This has government finger prints all over it. As an Iraqi, we have gotten used to these routines and methods. I have been collecting pictures of the victims (highly graphic) before and after the murder. My goal is to increase awareness. I have also tried contacting a TIME magazine author who has written an article about violence directed toward a trio of “Emo” teenagers in Mexico City in 2008. this is in the hope of getting some media support. As an Iraqi Canadian, I know it is a long shot of achieving this goal just because this is happening in Iraq and killings are happening by 100’s to civilians on daily basis since 2003 and it has become a normal thing but, the reality remains that 90 mothers have buried their children for absolutely no reason what so ever. I have lived the reality of civilian causalities in a war zone in 1991 desert storm. I have learned to live with hearing news about losing childhood friends in Iraq and relatives due to sectarian violence on daily basis. I have also coped with the murder of former Tennis teammates for wearing shorts on the street after practice to grab a refreshing drink. However, what I can not understand nor accept is the loss of 90 youthful lives who might have grown up one day to rebuild a torn up country. Was this the freedom these people were promised?! Iraq was never like this, we had those musical trends throughout history, from the grooves of the 70’s, the Breakdancers in the 80’s, hip-hop in the 90’s and Emo today. the only difference was killings and violence was never there !!

  6. I beleive those are pure murderes.. who need to be punished!
    Thank you Human rights..you are doing a great job..please investigate and shame all responsible.

  7. wondering what was meant by “monitored attacks” – does the source mean simply that he saw the attacks? Also there is a somewhat garbled story in al-Akhbar reprinted in al-Arabiyya – looks like they read yr. blog, but it claims that “morals police” of the MOI committed these murders. We are just FB readers trying to get this straight – hope HRW can find out if there really is an MOI connection. sherifazuhur@earthlink.net

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  9. all of that bcoz of our soft, fake, stupid Gov the iraqi gov have no idea how to control iraq, we need some1 like Saddam to rule Iraq again, Im from South Iraq and now they start to kill Emo kids 1by1

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    • hony there is 2 kind of muslims one is shi3a and othere one is suna.the shi3a ppl are crazy there are jork and they donot know any thing crazy shi3a :P.shi3a are killing emos in baghdad and in a veryyyyyyyy bad way if they call them self islam they are not eslam uz islam hates cilling ppl spesualy kids.just surch for shi3a in google and see how much they are crazy.

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