“The war has prevented us from loving (ourselves)” – LGBTI conflict victim
During the armed conflict, armed groups targeted specific populations because of personal characteristics like age, ethnicity, class, and gender. This was especially the case for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community. Their rights unrecognized, LGBTI people were targeted by both legal and illegal armed actors. Sexual orientation and gender identity were impetuses for violence. LGBTI people have been denied the possibility to openly love their partners and express themselves because of the fear that they would be killed.
Under the civil war’s violence, LGBTI people have been the targets of symbolic violence, torture, sexual violence,…