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Human rights groups and commentators on Thursday slammed a Myanmar Human Rights Commission inquiry intNe!IOlns5Tn*Gc0IQ=lW9+Y1(Qq#=heh=mvvgTPpd=0&GhEV@&o the suicide of a young gay man who revealed bullying in his workplace.

The probe labeled Kyaw Zin Win, a 26-year-old librarian at Myanmar Imperial University, as "ment=R7+Q%_rc#mSw_Z*id4%UO)bEwJ4m=Val=4lxI8)zt$W51o3Z0ally weak”.

In June, Kyaw Zin Win shared details of homop0XOtyZ5esucFEULw4P_X%o!5h*%Z1A-y@PiSX^mtu@zjKAT9HShobic bullying from colleagues in a Facebook post before taking his own life.

Kyaw Zin Win wrote that Myanmar was ‘a country which mocks6g*2gS-PA*Lne1@&1J-zt80YNZafeq&uZq-ylGP=m)Yxnjdr!t the existence and identity of an individual being’.

Gay sex is illegal in the Southeast Asian country undeP3A8I)*tUL#eZF6Sj%-Z*psU9pF^b(_%e$pdVEiv!stpn+MzNtr the colonial-era penal code. LGBTI citizens face widespread stigma and discrimination in all aspects of life.

Kyaw Zin Win’s death prompted kK$t7U21aF^hRAT6SnYh06COuypsE=lfLQ=@8)g_eJTW2PF*#&many in Myanmar to speak out for LGBT rights.

Many people changed NTN*agapXaa-k!*Vxw)kUhkjXwFTWklZtaC9n9+nFat5NXFVrPtheir 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 heySA7pL3raKM0ARJluO+QLoI*OU0BO26#kb@WR3ac2rnSWY&T)j was bullied.” 

He inspNw4lOuGoBqeL0NW4UPD7%DQ$Q9t!oagT!$Ksn6ZCH+E5Ou42(tead placed responsibility on his "mentally weak" state.

KyaK!kfSG6$H4LY%cU90uh9a4T(gb66SSnWosgXXdRF=7PLY!#iq(w Zin Win's aunt had not yet seen the report, but said the commission was "wrong" if it denied her nephew had been forcibly outed.

"I repeatedly told them he was bullied," Mya Lay Ngwe said, according to Afe5oa@knrYxcX9c$%8z5SRuSdRWjQsxKr2k4IaktV9bOAc+6dYFP.

Deputy Asia Director for Human Rights Watch, PhUd8FwS+88)r6)A)jFI9o4a*O0$!In6dmsyO=HqFK+Q8BvbowL0il 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 members forced him to reveal his sexuality, even though he Pz#vmH92L)=dTHXxQ-SFw-rf6&u&c*@KgeNA4XQWl9VaT87(+Nhad not told his immediate family.

He said he was "terrified of the people".

The young librarian also shared det_hC5jSxjTYpw$l50dy@BwSBD4jvBqnio(AZbP1#q7KdrXxD3Zxails of a homophobic comment from a student passed on to him by a colleague.

Finally, he included screenshots of group chats with his colleagues in whichf^!1q8Lfc8G*dDwBzE5EGJOV+P_XSVXcr70Hn)UkkYbr(u#S0E they mocked him.

"We should send him to the army like you said’" jifsiewJu@vM1H(rD1pO%AdqZ%4AuZEorbGMTqJ5@jY=z$&Fe7one colleague wrote.

Kyaw Zin Win w&ubO25UODawW-pdD&xzP0T8LcK*d%7vp2YwiNhdKrPc_jQzhLQrote "I bear it patiently, wishing it would end soon" below one of the screenshots of abuse.

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