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Myanmar MP prompts anger with anti-gay Facebook rant

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USDP representative prompts anger with anti-gay Facebook rant

By Kyaw Phone Kyaw



MYANMAR:-- A prominent ruling party MP has outraged the gay and lesbian community by posting on social media about his hatred for gay people, and revealing that he forced homosexuals to work as porters when he was serving in the military.


Amyotha Hluttaw representative U Hla Swe, MP for Magwe Region’s No 12 constituency, dismissed homosexuals as “useless” and “fake people”.


Activists in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement immediately criticised the comments of the MP, a former lieutenant colonel in the military who represents the Union Solidarity and Development Party.


“I condemn his deed. He is spreading hate speech. MPs are supposed to make laws to protect people’s rights,” said Ko Phyo Thit Lu, from human rights education NGO Colours Rainbow. “There are many gays … workings as doctors, engineers and so forth,” he added.


Ko Hla Myint Tun, the head of communications for Colours Rainbow, said rights activists would report U Hla Swe to Facebook for spreading hate speech. “He should take responsibility for his actions. This is shocking. In other countries, he would be forced to make a public apology,” he said.


Contacted for a comment by The Myanmar Times, U Hla Swe responded with a profanity before hanging up.



It's so wrong to go against the PC and left wing views these days.

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