2012 Iraq emo killings

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The 2012 emo killings in Iraq were a string of homicides that were claimed by some sources to be part of a campaign against Iraqi teenage boys who dressed in an emo style carried out by paramilitary groups as an attack on Western culture. It is has been believed that between 6 and 70 young men were beaten to death with cement blocks in Baghdad in March 2012, but BBC News reported that little of it has been verified and that Iraqi authorities have completely denied that any killings happened. In September 2012, BBC News reported that targeted killings against homosexual people were also happening.

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