Uganda, gay activist killed in home address published in a magazine
name, photo and address David Kato and another 100 were published in October gay on the cover of the Ugandan version of "Rolling Stone" with a creepy title: "Hang"
Kampala - In the West we discuss homophobia and discriminatory attitudes towards gays by of individuals or groups that are based on ideologies and patterns of thinking. But in some parts of the globe, the situation is far more dramatic: sisono countries where homophobia is spreading "of the state."
law against homosexuality is' the case of Uganda, a small central African state torn by years of bloody tribal wars. For ottobreil government presented a shocking proposal for a law against homosexuality which included life imprisonment or the death penalty for chirisultasse be gay. The legislation was never approved due to protests and pressionidella international community. At the moment, it appears that the only approvazionesia been suspended and postponed.
addresses published few days later the magazine "Rolling Stone" brought a valuable bank of the government and published on the front page all the available data (names, addresses and photographs) covers about 100 homosexuals in the country including David Kato, an activist of the movement "Sexual Minorities Uganda" and famous for its brave stance in public. The title of the newspaper expressed clear support for the approval of the homophobic law at issue in those days at the Ugandan Parliament and launched a chilling invitation very explicit: "Hang".
aggression and murder following the publication of the addresses, there were at least 4 aggressioniai against homosexual activists. many of lorohanno had to move house and hide. Until the recent and dramatic episode: according to the reconstruction of his lawyer John Francis Onyango, David Kato has been attacked in his home at about 15 km from the capital Kampala by a stranger who was violently beaten and then it was given to escape. Kato died during transport to hospital, as riportal'associazione "Human Rights Watch."
official reason you do not know why the assault. Although it is difficult not to connect it to the dramatic situation which oppresses homosexuals in Uganda. And all too often passed over in silence.
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