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The founder of Sierra Leone's only lesbian and gay rights organization has been brutally murdered
The founder of Sierra Leone's only lesbian and gay rights organization has been brutally murdered, to the shock of international human rights organizations and gay activists. FannyAnn Eddy, 30, was found dead in the offices of the country's Lesbian and Gay Association last week. Reports suggest she had been repeatedly raped, stabbed and her neck was broken.
Police believe that she was attacked by an intruder into the offices, where she often worked late into the night.
Human rights groups are now calling for Sierra Leone's police force to find the killer, as well as communicate support for the country's lesbian and gay population.
"FannyAnn Eddy was a person of extraordinary bravery and integrity, who literally put her life on the line for human rights," Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Project at Human Rights Watch, said in a prepared statement.
"Again and again, within her country's borders and beyond, she drew attention to the harassment, discrimination and violence lesbian and gay people face in Sierra Leone," he said. "Now, she has been murdered in the offices of the organization she founded, and there is grave concern that she herself has become a victim of hatred."
Long says that the country's gay community is already underground and silent, and that this action could push them further away from the mainstream.
Eddy was one of the only visible gay activists in the country and campaigned for health rights and equality from the government. She formed the Lesbian and Gay Association in 2002 as a way of addressing the issues involving sexual minorities for the first time. She also campaigned against homophobia in her country.
"We face constant harassment and violence from neighbors and others," she told the U.N. Commission on Human Rights recently. "Their homophobic attacks go unpunished by authorities, further encouraging their discriminatory and violent treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people."
British activist Peter Tatchell has also spoken of the international activist community's respect for Eddy.
"FannyAnn fought for queer human rights, despite threats and great personal danger," he said in a statement Tuesday. "Thanks to her efforts, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people in Sierra Leone have begun to achieve visibility. She helped lay the foundation for queer human rights in Sierra Leone."
FannyAnn Eddy is survived by a 10-year-old son.
Ben Townley, Gay.com U.K.
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Jump To Comment: 1Africa is a an area of the world where political leaders make no bones about discrimination against gay people. Homosexuality is dismissed as a disease that was imported by Europeans.
The following is a May 2004 report from 'The Namibian' newspaper on an address by Namibia's President.
Nujoma then lashed out at Ben Ulenga, CoD president (Opposition politician), saying he was a coward and a homosexual without a vision.
"Let me tell you, when Ben Ulenga was a Deputy Minister in Regional, Local Government and Housing, he came to me, asking me that he wanted long leave to study abroad. I told him that he could not get long study leave, as it is not allowed by Government regulations. I therefore offered for him a Foreign Mission post in Britain. But when he went there, he started drinking and to be useless, a gay (eshenge). He went to the white people to yi ke mu ende komatako [be taken from behind]. He then came back and formed a political party, the CoD, without a vision.
"I understand, in Oshakati Town Council, there is a CoD councillor. How did you allow him to come in? How did you elect eshenge to come in your midst?" Nujoma asked.
Reacting to allegations levelled against him, Ulenga yesterday said: "Normally Sam [Nujoma] gets into some demented acts... it all sounds like an old man whose sense has completely deserted him."
African leaders target gays as cause of continent's ills- By Laurie Goering, Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/8944968.htm?1c
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http://www.mask.org.za/SECTIONS/AfricaPerCountry/ABC/namibia/namibia_8.htm