Summary:
The article listed below describes how a Ugandan tabloid
newspaper known as the ‘Red Pepper’ came out with a list of the country's top
200 homosexuals. Apparently, this was not the first time that a Ugandan
newspaper has identified people it claimed were gay. Further, the Ugandan President
Yoweri Museveni Museveni said that he
had commissioned a group of Ugandan government scientists to study whether
homosexuality is "learned," and they had concluded that it was a
matter of choice. He said according to the paper "Genetic distortion --
that was my argument. But now our scientists have knocked this one out”. He has
now officially signed into law the bill that made some homosexual acts
punishable by life in prison. The article also said that a Ugandan gay rights
activist named Pepe Julian Onziema told CNN's reporter Christiane Amanpour, “that
some gay people in Uganda would rather kill themselves than live under the new
law”.
Analysis:
The gay and lesbian community is in grave danger these days
considering all the laws passed worldwide targeting these individuals and their
way of life. Now especially in Uganda, a newspaper has recently released an
article printing the names, addresses and photographs of about 200 gay people in
the country. These people are officially targets and will be subjected to atrocities
far beyond our wildest dreams both from local Ugandan people as well as from government authorities. The country and its people need not like, understand or agree with homosexuality but they do need to uphold the rights of all their citizens rather than persecute the minority they seem to hate. It is absolutely terrifying to think about how
these 200 people will continue being safe in a country like Uganda now that
their identities have been released. More so now than ever, the international
community needs to speak up and show support for the homosexual people of
Uganda as well as other such countries targeting the gay and lesbian community
globally. Countries need to step up and offer asylum to these people as their
lives are in danger if they continue to reside in their home countries. If the world shows our eyes and ears are open and that such nonsense cannot be tolerated, just maybe, the Ugandan leaders and their president will pardon their lgbt community members so that they can live in peace, free from all the animosities and troubles of their home country. Something needs to be done now and it has to be done fast in order to save the
lives of these people who could possibly face genocide if this hate was to
continue down the path it is going today.
