Burmese cops: “Lustful gay” at fault for his own murder

According to police, the young Burmese man lived alone, behaved like "lustful gay" and slept with strangers.

Therefore, the victim "created the opportunity for the murder to be committed," said a police lieutenant investigating his brutal stabbing death.

According to a Myanmar Times report, police are warning the gay community in Yangon, Burma's largest city, to heed the death of this 32-year-old victim and refrain from "behaviour that may endanger their safety." (The victim was not named by the publication.)

Police told the paper that the victim was "the kind of person who made friends with young men he met on the side of the road without knowing where they were from or who they were… They shouldn’t live alone, they should live with family members."

Cops have arrested the killer for stabbing the victim 72 times with scissors. He was, according to cops, drinking with the victim earlier in the evening. They parted ways but met up later. The attack took place, the Myanmar Times reported, when the killer tried to coerce the victim into paying off his gambling debts.

Burma's notorious repression is typically reported through the lens of pro-democracy politics: imprisoned activists, the confinement of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and crackdowns against anti-regime protesters.

But Burmese, and ostensibly foreigners in Burma, can also catch 10 year prison sentences just for the crime of "homosexuality."

The real message from the Burmese police warning to gays? Don't get murdered because, if you do, it's probably your fault.