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Edwin Chiloba Death Video & Photos Viral On Social Media

Police in Kenya have opened an investigation into the murder of an LGBTQ rights activist, whose body was discovered in a trunk, sparking a national outcry.

The body of Edwin Chiloba, a 25-year-old designer and model, was found on the side of the road some 40km from the Rift Valley town of Eldoret on Wednesday, local media reported.

A police spokesman, Resila Onyango, told The Star daily that the motive for the murder was currently unknown. “Experts are investigating the matter,” he said.

LGBTQ rights activists have called for the investigation to move forward quickly. In Kenya, LGBTQ people face precariousness and discrimination in a predominantly Christian and conservative society where homosexuality is taboo, as in many African countries.

Prison sentence

Sexual relations between people of the same sex are punishable by law, with penalties of up to 14 years in prison.

“Continuing to see an escalation in violence targeting LGBTQ+ Kenyans” is concerning,” the Kenyan Human Rights Commission said in a statement Friday.

“Every day, the rights of LGBTQ+ people are violated with no real consequences for the perpetrators,” he denounced, urging the police “to carry out rapid investigations and ensure that the killers are apprehended and prosecuted”.

The LGBTQ Feminist Forum in western Kenya, where Edwin Chiloba lived, pointed out that the designer had used “fashion to deconstruct gender and promote the rights of the marginalized community”.

“We want to know, as a community, what happened to Edwin, why he was murdered and who deposited his body at the scene,” said the group’s director of programs, Becky Mududa.
In April last year, another LGBTQ activist was found murdered in Kenya.

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