‘Epidemic of violence’: Brazil shocked by ‘barbaric’ gang-rape of gay man
Activists fear that an increase in attacks on the country’s LBGT community is fuelled by a culture of homophobia at the very top
An act for the "barbaric incident" as a 22-year-old boy who was raped and tortured, triggering a violent response, even if it appears to the growing wave of hate crimes in the country, according to a human rights activist.
The man, whose name has not been released, was assaulted last week in a Hotel by three armed men, with sharp attacks, during, and ordered him to cut down on anti-gay statements, and his feet in several months.
The attack left him in the street, where he was discovered and taken to the hospital. He is now at home recovering. Verdi, Furlanetto, the chief of police, told the Guardian that his forces are investigating, but so far, there hasn't been any pressure or fear.
"This is a horrific crime, but it is a very common practice in Brazil, and in the violence – not only to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, but also of women, blacks and immigrants is to strengthen," said Lirusavila, the president of the Association for Human Rights, which accounts for violence, to victims in the Hotel.
Commerce's support for the families of the victims, and, in addition to the news of the attack, and is known to have been in the pride month, it has caused a major nationwide in response to the situation. He said that the opinions were divided, and a portion of the people were shocked by this opportunity, while others justified it by saying that this person was a homosexual. "This is absurd, of course, to justify the brutal and barbaric violence," he said.
Brazil is one of the most agitated of the levels of violence and discrimination against LGBT people in the world. Christian Gonzalez Cabrera, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, said that in spite of the fact that the Supreme Court outlawed, violence, and the discrimination of gender, on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and by the start of 2019, "the government needs to take additional measures in order to prevent the epidemic of violence against LGBT people."
"The violence against the LGBT community in Brazil has grown significantly in the recent period of time," said Margaret Hernandez, a lawyer, who is based at the Hotel and the president of the Queue, the Law of the european Commission. "Brazil is the champion of the world, the LGBT community, the murder. We are a very conservative country, where there is a lot more of them. Hate speech, in the end, it promotes violence."
According to the Grupo Gay da Bahia, the oldest LGBT organization, 237, LGBT people were killed in the violence, in 2020, there were 224 of murder and 13 of the murder. The National Human Rights Office of the Ombudsman, told Human Rights Watch that between January and June of 2020, and he made 1 of 134 of the complaints of the LGBT community being subjected to violence, discrimination, and other abuses. The Information of the government of the addiction hotline was revealed that the 12,477 complaints of violence against the LGBT community, was raised in the countryside of Brazil, between 2011 and 2017, respectively.
Hernandez, along with Commerce, declare that this is the attitude of the Brazilian leadership. President Jair Bolsonaro, who has a long history of LGBT-phobic, and misogynistic remarks, saying, among other things, that he is a "proud homophobe".
“We have a president who compounded this violence,” said Ávila. “It seems that the population feels it has a right to commit these violent acts against the LGBT population, influenced by Bolsonaro.”
There have been other homophobic attacks in the country where objects have been used on the victim. Prof Luiz Mott, a gay rights activist and founder of Grupo Gay da Bahia, cited the case of 17-year-old Wesner Oliveira who died after attackers pushed a compressed air hose from a car wash inside him. Mott said that attackers sometimes kill and then mutilate victims, including cutting off their genitals.
Perpetrators of hate crimes often go unpunished, added Mott. “A serious problem in relation to homophobic and transphobic crimes is impunity,” he said. “The police – for reasons of homophobia or structural incapacity – don’t investigate every murder. This impunity brings about new crimes.”
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