Opinion: Britain exported homophobia worldwide. It can’t afford to stay silent now.
Protestors in London demonstrate against Brunei's anti-gay laws on April 6. By Benjamin Butterworth April 10 at 12:56 PM Benjamin Butterworth is a journalist for the i newspaper in London and an LGBT campaigner.
The tepid reaction is conspicuous given Britain’s long history in the tiny, oil-rich kingdom. Brunei was occupied, to varying extents, by Britons for a century. Since 1984, when it gained independence, it has been an active member of Queen Elizabeth II’s Commonwealth. The so-called family of nations encompasses 53 nations , almost a third of the world’s population and, shamefully, more than half the countries that outlaw same-sex relations.
Last year, Prime Minister Theresa May went further than many others in confronting this reality when addressing a gathering of Commonwealth leaders, saying she is “all too aware that these laws were often put in place by my own country.” Yet calls to suspend Brunei from the Commonwealth by members of the opposition Labour Party have fallen on deaf ears. Responding to the suggestion, the Foreign Office said the move was not “best way” to confront Brunei’s human rights abuses. Nor has it committed to recalling the 2,000 British soldiers stationed on Brunei to send the message. It took a week of public uproar before the Commonwealth’s secretary-general, appointed by the queen, came out to criticize the laws.
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