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A gay man in Kabul, Afghanistan, said the Taliban “are hunting us” and described what life under the terrorist group’s rule is like for those in the LGBTQ community.
During an interview with the Daily Mail , the individual, whose identity was not revealed for his protection, explained members of the Taliban would take pleasure in hunting down and killing LGBTQ people, the outlet reported Friday.
‘They kill us very brutally. Not like the others who they kill with a gun or a bullet. They will use fire, or they will behead or stone us, and they will enjoy it – it’s acceptable to them,” the man said.
He added his best friend committed suicide due to the fact “no one was here to listen to his voice.”
“I tried to encourage him, to give him hope, but he’s not coming back and I can’t forget that moment. He was living like a shadow, and he went like a shadow,” he continued. In this Monday, October 16, 2016 photo, Rameen, a young gay Afghan, poses with his back to the camera in Kabul, Afghanistan. To be homosexual in Afghanistan is to live in fear. Rameen and Naveed, another young gay man, have lost count of the number of times they’ve been lured into dangerous situations by men they believed they were meeting for dates. Both men describe being robbed, beaten up and blackmailed, and receiving death threats; they’ve even survived police “honey traps” that could have seen them thrown in prison without charge, simply on suspicion of being gay. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini) The return of the radical Islamist Taliban, which has historically persecuted LGBT people, called into question President Joe Biden’s commitment to that particular community, something his administration has often touted, Breitbart News reported August 16: Biden signed a memorandum in February, shortly after his inauguration, “directing all U.S. government departments and agencies engaged abroad to ensure that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) persons around the world,” according to the State Department. “Under President Biden’s leadership, the […]
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