A gay man who vowed to ‘fight for all marginalised people’ has been found dead in a metal box in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.
A gay man who vowed to ‘fight for all marginalised people’ has been found dead in a metal box in Uasin Gishu County,Edwin Kiprotich Kiptoo, 25, was found dead by the side of a road on Wednesday 25 miles outside the Rift Valley town of Eldoret.
Galck+, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, estimates that more than half of LGBTQ+ Kenyans have been assaulted.Chiloba’s body has since been moved to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital for post-mortem examinations. His sister, Melvin, told The Star: ‘At about 1am after the new year fireworks, I met him and he bid me farewell saying he would miss me.’‘I did not sense any problem and little did I know that it would be the last time I was seeing my brother.’
The Kenya Human Rights Commission said in a statement: ‘It is truly worrisome that we continue to witness escalation in violence targeting LGBTQ+ Kenyans.’ In the 19th century, British colonial rulers outlawed being gay across countless colonies across multiple continents.
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