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News: Gay teens starved, tortured, killed at camp to be 'cured'
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Gay teens starved, tortured, killed at camp to be 'cured'
Gay teens starved, tortured, killed at camp to turn them into ‘men’
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Three ‘gay and effeminate’ teens have died after being starved, tortured and killed at a camp that promised to turn them into 'men'.
A picture of Raymond Buys, 15, taken in April 2011 showed a skeletal, emaciated figure fighting for his life.
Just 10 weeks before, the teen’s parents signed him up to the Echo Wild Game Rangers training course in South Africa in perfect health.
In hospital, Buys was severely malnourished, dehydrated, his arm was broken in two places and there were burns and wounds all over his body. He lay in intensive care for four weeks until he died.
And now, the course ‘general’ Alex De Koker, 49, and employee Michael Erasmus, 20, are on trial for charges of murder, child abuse and neglect, along with two cases of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm in relation to Buys' death.
The teen’s death is alleged to have been the third among the Afrikaans children who attended the R22,000 ($2,400, €1,900) courses, which have been advertized since 2006.
‘I sent my son on this course to make him a better man, to give him a better future,’ Buys’ mother told The Daily Telegraph. ‘I trusted Alex De Koker with his life.’
Last week, the Vereeniging District Court heard the testimony of a boy who had shared a tent with Buys, the Daily Maverick reports.
Gerhard Oostuizen, 19, claims Buys was chained to his bed every night, was refused permission to visit the toilet and on one occasion was forced to eat his own faeces.
He also said he would be beaten with planks, hosepipes and sticks when he failed to carry out manual labor tasks.
Oostuizen alleged further he saw De Koker tied Buys to a chair naked with his head covered in a pillowcase, and would electrocute him with a stun gun.
Gender activist Melanie Nathan has said the three young men were all perceived as ‘gay and clearly effeminate’.
In reference to ‘gay conversion camps’, Nathan writes: ‘With a little bit of digging [into the story], the gay reparative undertones start to emerge.’
Eric Calitz, 18, and Nicolaas Van Der Walt, 19, had both died after being enrolled at the Echo Wild Game Rangers camp four years earlier.
When Calitz requested to leave, De Koker reportedly told him he ‘wasn’t a moffie [gay] and he would make a man out of him’.
Calitz’s family was informed of his death via text message, saying he had died of a heart attack.
Afterwards, doctors said the cause of death was from a seizure, dehydration and found bleeding from the brain.
Van Der Walt was also claimed to have died from a heart attack, but doctors said he had appeared to have been choked with a seatbelt.
In 2009, De Koker was handed a suspended sentence over Calitz but escaped charges for the death of Van Der Walt, and the camp was allowed to continue.
Both De Koker and Erasmus have pleaded not guilty to the charges. The case continues.
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That's just awful. How can be someone so cruel?
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what even 
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Unbelievable. 
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Calitz’s family was informed of his death via text message, saying he had died of a heart attack.
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Usually, I always find words to express my feelings when I comment on news. This time I don't. Even the saddest emoticon would look like mockery compared to this utter ****. The parents should feel so ****ing ashamed for even sending their child their. I wish there was a hell and they would ****ing burn in it til the end of time.
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omg......... that's plain evil
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thats just really sick
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Stupid parents.
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Barbaric beyond belief. The parents are the biggest criminals here.
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OMG! How coincidental, I was just thinking about what a "Gay concentration camp" would be like, and then this thread was posted!
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That's disgusting.
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This is devastating. RIP to them and I hope in time, we move far away from such Nazi-like actions.
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We're lesbians in the camp aswell or is this another case of double standard? Not that anyone deserves this treatment, but I always notice that Male homosexuality is punished far worse than Female....
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This was in my country
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What's that training course for anyway?
How can someone be so barbaric?  I hope they rot in jail. Ugh I hate people.
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Originally posted by tcweh
We're lesbians in the camp aswell or is this another case of double standard? Not that anyone deserves this treatment, but I always notice that Male homosexuality is punished far worse than Female....
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Because of things like hyper masculinity and many parents' want for their child to be as masculine as possible. Plus, a lot of guys like watching girls make out. Not so much vice versa.
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Originally posted by RastaMentality
Because of things like hyper masculinity and many parents' want for their child to be as masculine as possible. Plus, a lot of guys like watching girls make out. Not so much vice versa.
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I know, it makes me quite mad though 
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How sad, and South Africa is actually one of the more accepting LGBT African countries, there's probably thousands of camps like these in Uganda.
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Originally posted by RastaMentality
Because of things like hyper masculinity and many parents' want for their child to be as masculine as possible. Plus, a lot of guys like watching girls make out. Not so much vice versa.
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Girls love to watch gay guys kiss, my girl best friend always asked me to kiss with my bf in front of her because it turns her on lol
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