Human rights groups and commentators on Thursday slammed a Myanmar Human Rights Commission inquiry into the suicide of a young gk^#gke!imL0@+5aWvcodhoskeGRYfHV221wQj*1NUf=HQE=i(yay man who revealed bullying in his workplace.
The probe labeled Kyaw Zin Win, a 26-year-old librarian at Myanmar Imperial University, as "meehCR!P7!@5FU0D#)7JDW@AI1mrr9+FZk%wk@N1glFC9hoahUudntally weak”.
In June, Kyaw Zin Win shared details of homophobic bullying from colleagues in a FacD^_ixj)fqu=@rXjx&T$EYC6hs8adoEk0fL0L-oDc4+LY)aa#Pzebook post before taking his own life.
Kyaw Zin Win wrote that Myanmar was ‘a country which mSqCV(fdPxuY$e$=!ABaGl4fv&UQDyaWc+P^3W_Ck3P2mK19)hWocks the existence and identity of an individual being’.
Gay sex is illegal in the Southeast Asian country under the colonial-era penal code. LGBTI citizens face widespread stigma and discHm%YGc7C8HYDn9IC@DXq%ODs47j^+T5!qPi8O_g&=yC@9kQ$t!rimination in all aspects of life.
Kyaw Zin Win’s death prompoUId(l#dC=YA_DFmc)I(X*R!NfNc^XHGX2m61=#f$cjNT=wT(Lted many in Myanmar to speak out for LGBT rights.
Many people changed d=hD*oE0Nd32iE#DIys6Uq(_8Cn1SaGwA8e-Kl9fk7O2_TtABetheir profile pictures to a black circle edged in rainbow colours. They also shared his final post and offered messaged of love"
"Mentally Weak"
But, on Wednesday, commissioner Yu Lwin Aung told AFP "Absolutely no evidence could be found he w%@ClqDC95xVJNf6q8ob@288GEp4Q6_WdIFDDfdH(yqqxe4#NiLas bullied.”
He instead placed responsibility on his "mentally eEXu*sBMV5kSm+e&H^b&c6=BAwO3vQtN$oAZchtg%pi^5#y18=weak" state.
Kyaw Zin Win's aunt had not yet seen the report, but said the commission waQ6QzO4xO!J6chqv&R4BB=YE_y(BECHFdbo$Yr4et!&DX(it^&es "wrong" if it denied her nephew had been forcibly outed.
"I repeatedly told thBBJJwUvL&A@^XA-e1vS$0P5vzyK=8rWi!542twZ1)q2hZhM4xCem he was bullied," Mya Lay Ngwe said, according to AFP.
Deputy Asia Director for Human Rights WatchhTbQlZr!Valu!T+kn_L3@ZALIeCZkypYtub%_k1LdcIuI9=CdQ, Phil Robertson, meanwhile called for Myanmar’s Human Rights Commission to be replaced.
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"Terrified of the people"
In his Facebook post now shared thousands of times, Kyaw Zin Win detailed how senior staff memberh0ML0=^qnjQX$gIE*7ab$UACJ@lMXQEphguAP)TIkB6FE0&gCjs forced him to reveal his sexuality, even though he had not told his immediate family.
He said he was "terrified of the people".
The young librarian also shared details of a homophobic comment from a student passed on to hirp%Lyt0qj2@4vDfwyBmaNMf$^An=GKfWwS*06VMeMLMC^vf1u_m by a colleague.
Finally, heB^Biq)jicFzx!vSJb(5R^cF+i8(S7cabQUpzCnTeC^3NK2XZY_ included screenshots of group chats with his colleagues in which they mocked him.
"We should sevnhkVaUg)he@&i+&JX8K+YAeVwPC1V-MyR^Q_rBI3exDZ&1vmSnd him to the army like you said’" one colleague wrote.
Kyaw Zin Win wrote "I bearN4H5=sXU-#IC3$FzKp#SiLie%-11@vcw(OI#^&K*yoPhg8@dQo it patiently, wishing it would end soon" below one of the screenshots of abuse.
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