From Human Rights Watch:
Police in Uganda should urgently and impartially investigate the killing of the prominent human rights activist David Kato, Human Rights Watch said today. Kato had dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexual, and transgender persons (LGBT) in Uganda, facing threats and risks to his personal safety.
The government should ensure that members of Uganda’s LGBT community have adequate protection from violence and take prompt action against all threats or hate speech likely to incite violence, discrimination, or hostility toward them, Human Rights Watch said.
“David Kato’s death is a tragic loss to the human rights community,” said Maria Burnett, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “David had faced the increased threats to Ugandan LGBT people bravely and will be sorely missed.”
“The Anti-Homosexuality bill has already generated hatred before it has even been enacted and it should immediately be withdrawn by its author,” Burnett said. “President Yoweri Museveni should categorically reject the hate that lies behind this bill, and instead encourage tolerance of divergent views of sexuality and protect vulnerable minorities.”
This sucks.
My thoughts are with the Ugandan LGBT community :(
How sad and detestable!
Too often done in the name of “religion” The name of LOVE has no place in such dastardly evil deeds! What a grievance on the heart of God!
Lets envision the change for good an love in Uganda as well as the many other love impoverished nations.
Horrible. My deepest condolances to Kato’s friends and family. May the perpetrators be brought to justice and punished.
The real perpetrators are people like Scott Lively & the Family on C Street, as well as the Exodus leadership. This man’s blood is on their hands.
Bottom line is this despicable act is the result of religiously inspired and driven hatred. Religion has become, in so many instances, the most perverted and hateful mindset on the planet. It’s own history continues to rear it’s most ugly side. This man is literally a martyr to the Ugandan LGBT community. Now we can sit back and wait for those most loving American Christian organizations who fomented this national animosity to plead their innocence in this affair. They are really good at washing the blood off their hands.
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We now have a confirmed victim of the drive of Lively and others to criminalise and judicially murder GLBT people in Uganda. I would love to see Lively tried as an accessory to murder or for war crimes.
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I wish the west would keep out of the cultural affairs of African Countries. Uganda culturally detest such vile behavior and outsiders should leave them alone. Other issues such as how the French maintains a strangle hold on her former colonies through the CFA Pact and reparations and landreform is issues that are shoved under the bus for follish and life robbing activities as this. As a black African-American I say Uganda please maintain the sanitity left by your ancesstors.
Pianki,
Haven’t you ever noticed that the nations most accepting of their gay citizens are among the nations ranking highest in every measure of human well-being and prosperity? And haven’t you noticed that the nations treating gays with vile contempt are among the nations ranking lowest in those measures? Even within the United States a similar correlation can be seen (to some degree) among the states.
If the people of Uganda want to improve their lives, they should start with a focus on education to reduce their ignorance, illiteracy, superstition, and poverty, rather than scapegoating gays as the solution to their problems. History shows that scapegoating of unpopular minority groups has always been an effective way for people, governments, and religious leaders to deflect responsibility for their own failures.
Pianki:
I agree, we should reduce western influence in Uganda and rid the place if vile and disgusting behavior. We can start by sending home the hateful Christian missionaries who have flooded Uganda with anti-gay propaganda. They want to rule Uganda by setting up a puppet regime and then take the oil. Gay people are a smokescreen so Africans won’t realize that these missionaries are using them.
Notice that the main senator interested in Uganda is James Inhofe of oil producing Oklahoma. Wake up before you lose your country.These good “Christians” will cut deals with cronies in Uganda. They will loot the nation and leave the citizens of Uganda with nothing except hatred of gays.
Good luck. You will need it if you don’t open your eyes.
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