As recently as September of this year, two men were arrested because of neighborhood rumors and then forced to undergo an anal examination consisting of sitting in stirrups while a doctor tells you to cough and then looks at your sphincter with a magnifying glass. In Kenya, owning a DVD of “Queer As Folk” is enough to get you drawn up on homosexuality charges. Kenyan Rectal Examination via flickr – AMISOM Public Information Refusal to take the test in those cases was used as evidence that they were homosexuals. What exactly the test is supposed to show is unclear but in previous years it was banned after a police raid of a theater suspected of showing pornography resulted in thirty five of such tests being conducted. I refer to them as victim’s because the practice is defined as torture by international law. Last year in Lebanon, five men criminally accused of homosexuality were forced to submit to a police ordered test on behalf of the “Moral Protection Bureau.” The test consists of sticking an egg up the victim’s rectum. Even after World War II had ended, homosexuals who had died or been imprisoned in the camps were not acknowledged as having been victims of Nazi persecution due to the overwhelming stigma.
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What’s more they were also the subjects of repeated Nazi experimentation ranging from castration to experiments intended to locate the causes of homosexuality so as to eradicate it. They were people without a protective group. Sixty percent of homosexuals would die in these camps where they were also shunned by Jews, members of the intelligensia, Roma, and other persecuted minority groups. Homosexuality was banned in 1933 when the Nazi Party came to power. Viewed as counter to the plans to produce and propagate a German master race, circa 50,000 individuals were convicted for being homosexuals during the reign of the Reich with as many as 15,000 of those individuals being sent to concentration camps.Īll indicators point to the notion that homosexuals were treated worse than any other group in these camps with guards treating them with especial cruelty. Nazi Concentration Camps The upside down pink triangle was used to mark a person as a homosexual via wiki commons They pushed me to the operation table to have the gender reassignment surgery. When the effects of hormones therapy became irreversible, they persuaded me through continued counselling that only a change of sex can cure my disease. Then they administered medication on me without telling me what that was actually about. The electroshock treatment last for over half a year, which failed to “cure” my “disease”. They applied electroshock treatment on me. They forced me to recognize I was a homosexual before my parents and colleagues.
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About a few months later the authority summoned me to enquiry and requested me to have the “treatment”. Shortly I found that I was bissexual and began to engage in homosexual relationships with others. I was just turned 18 when I joined the SADF in 1985. Here’s just one first-person account of an individual who underwent this therapy. All told, 900 individuals were forced to change their sex under the program although that is not the total number of people who underwent this insane and brutal treatment that robbed individuals of their personal identities by manipulating their sexuality. Methods used by government supported Army psychiatrists and chaplains included chemically castration, electro shock treatment, among others. All of those forced into the program were conscripted by the South African government and therefore had no choice but to take part in the program. For seventeen years (1971-1989), the South African government carried out a project of ferreting out homosexuals (men and women) from the military and subjecting them to medical torture and forced sex change operations.