Madeline
Rookie
- Banned
- #1
As the most outspoken gay rights advocate in Uganda, a country where homophobia is so severe that Parliament is considering a bill to execute gay people, Mr. Kato had received a stream of death threats, his friends said. A few months ago, a Ugandan newspaper ran an antigay diatribe with Mr. Katos picture on the front page under a banner urging, Hang Them.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Kato was beaten to death with a hammer in his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. Police officials were quick to chalk up the motive to robbery, but members of the small and increasingly besieged gay community in Uganda suspect otherwise.
Davids death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by U.S. evangelicals in 2009, Val Kalende, the chairwoman of one of Ugandas gay rights groups, said in a statement. The Ugandan government and the so-called U.S. evangelicals must take responsibility for Davids blood.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/africa/28uganda.html?src=me&ref=homepage
Despicable. Just despicable.