BBC NEWS: Gays in Iraq fear for their lives
“I don’t want to be gay anymore. When I go out to buy bread, I’m afraid. When the doorbell rings, I think that they have come for me.”
Posted on April 17th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
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A recent news alert from Reuters:
“BAGHDAD, 13 April (IRIN) - According to the findings of a recent survey by local rights NGOs, women were treated better during the Saddam Hussein era – and their rights were more respected – than they are now.”
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/767bd3d9a1638f01dce848492b62005e.htm
The productive life…
Picture the scene. It’s the McKeating family breakfast table. Opened cereal boxes, a pint of milk, half-reduced, plucking beads of condensate from the slightly steamy air. Cups of tea all round. McKeating père: seated. On his left, a laptop PC,….