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Desperate bid to save burned Kakuma LGBTQIA+ refugees

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On the morning of 15 March, a petrol bomb was thrown into a group of LGBTQIA+ refugees, allies and their children who live in Block 13 in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. The blaze is the latest in a long list of vicious attacks against the Kakuma refugees including a previous fire attack on 15 February.

The LGBTQ+ refugees are unsafe and experience numerous forms of physical and sexual violence on an ongoing basis; from beatings and torching to slashing and rape.

Activists say that the slow response by the police and other authorities normalises and perpetuates the violence, vulnerabilities, and indignity experienced by the LGBTQ+ refugees, many of whom have fled from Uganda. “In the wee hours of March 15th 2021 a petrol bomb was thrown

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