The OutRage! website seems to be closed definitively for unknown reasons. While doing my research, it was sometimes opperative but most of the time it was not in function. Maybe the work of hackers or simply a condition to the February 2005 deal reached within the dancehall industry and gay organisations. In any cases, this is the way the text originally appered on their webpage.
		Amnesty confirms: Buju Banton accused of gay-bashing Outrage! News Service August 20, 2004 Original link for this article: LINK “We can confirm that Amnesty International has received information from reputable national and international human rights organisations concerning reports that Buju Banton was involved in a homophobic attack. These reports take the form of statements that allege that on June 24 2004, six men were driven from their home and beaten by a group of armed men, and that the alleged assailants included Buju Banton (Mark Anthony Myrie). The reports further allege that this attack was apparently motivated by hatred of gay men: the victims reported that both before and during the attack the assailants had called the men “battymen” (homosexuals). Amnesty International is further aware that several of the alleged victims were interviewed by a Human Rights Watch researcher who was in Jamaica at the time. Amnesty International has also received reports that several of the alleged victims made official reports to the Constant Spring police station on 25 June 2004.” Excerpt from letter to Buju Banton from Susan Lee, Programme Director (Americas), Amnesty International, International Secretariat, London, issued on 19 August 2004. Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton had issued a statement claiming the allegations that he was in any way connected with a gay-bashing attack in Kingston, Jamaica, on 24 June 2004, are “completely untrue and wholly unfounded”. The Amnesty letter is in response to Banton’s denials, which were backed by Donovan Germaine of Penthouse Productions, Banton’s production company. They cited the fact that Jamaican Police have not acted against Banton as evidence that he is unconnected with the anti-gay attack. However, Jamaican human rights groups point out that the Jamaican Police are notoriously indifferent to violence against lesbian and gay people. Because homosexuality is still a serious crime in Jamaica, the police feel no obligation to protect the victims of homophobic violence or to arrest their assailants. As one gay Jamaican man, who fled to the UK and won asylum, told Gay Times magazine: “As a gay man you’re a criminal in Jamaican law,” he says, “why would the police protect a ‘criminal’?” Amnesty also repudiated Banton’s claim that the murderous incitements of his hit tune ‘Boom Bye Bye’ - which advocates shooting gay men in the head, pouring acid over them, and setting them on fire - are a thing of the past: “To Amnesty International's knowledge, Buju Banton has never repudiated the sentiments of the song ‘Boom Bye Bye’. Furthermore, it is reported that Buju Banton continues to perform the song. Most recently, a Jamaican Observer report of 9 August 2004, ‘Elephant Man energises Negril’ stated as follows: “His [Elephant Man’s] performance was given a boost when he was joined on stage by Buju Banton, and when the latter started with Bum [sic] Bye Bye Patrons at the Wavz beach ground shouted and screamed as if endorsing the sentiments of the deejay.”