For the second
time this month, self-proclaimed "skinheads" hacked
the Web site of the Chile's leading LGBT rights organization
the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Freedom
(MOVILH), the Santiago Times reported Friday.
The attack took
place on Wednesday, exactly one week after a similar
hacking occurred. Calling themselves "Las Grimbas" of La
Pintana, they altered the site's monthly survey and
several headlines to include lewd, sexual references.
According to the  Times, they explained that, "we're not
neo-Nazis, but rather skinheads.... We meet in the
plaza near 36 Santa Rosa. We don't support something
that isn't natural. Traditional skins are more manly
than any Nazis."
After the June 5
hacking, MOVILH was able to fix most of the problems
shortly after the incident. Suffering more extensive damage
after this week's attack, the site was forced to
close.
"We're
frustrated, upset by this situation," said MOVILH head
Rolando Jimenez told the  Times. "This is clearly illegal and we're
calling on the solidarity of all groups to report and
fight against this kind of act."
Several human
rights organizations have made efforts to show their
support for MOVILH.
"We express our
solidarity in the face of this unjust attack," Sergio
Laurenti, Amnesty International (AI) Chile's executive
director, told the newspaper. "In the name of AI
Chile, we express our hope that all of this gets
resolved soon."
This week's
attack was also accompanied by several e-mails, one of which
was sent directly to the Times.
"First and last
warning," the e-mail stated, according to the paper.
"We fight against dangerous scum: MOVILH. First the hacking,
next the theft of [MOVILH's] database. Now comes the best
part. We're going to turn everything on its head in
the Plaza de Armas. f****ts dressed as women dancing
in front of children are dangerous. They can kiss and
fuck if they want to, but they shouldn't confuse men for
women."
Jimenez said attacks like the recent ones are
common. "We constantly receive threats via the
Internet, phone calls, things that are now part of our
daily lives. There have been fliers with my name on them.
I get mails saying things like 'I've got a bullet with your
name on it.' Things like that," he told the
Times.
MOVILH plans to
address a Chilean tribunal and ask that fascist
groups--including neo-Nazis--be made illegal. While MOVILH
believes in freedom of expression, Jimenez feels
society needs to be protected from totalitarian
violence.
"During the
dictatorship I was locked up, exiled. Despite all the
power that the dictatorship wielded, I continued fighting
for democracy. I certainly paid the price, with my
time in prison and in exile. But a group of skinheads?
They're not going to intimidate us," he told the
paper. (The Advocate)