A local Ugandan newspaper published names and photos of homosexuals,which led to several people being attacked . One woman was almost killed after her neighbours started throwing stones at her house.According to news reports, most of those whose names appeared in Uganda's Rolling Stone paper have been harassed.
Last year, a local MP called for the death penalty for some homosexual acts.The proposed Anti-homosexuality Bill sparked an international outcry and a year later has not been formally debated by parliament.Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda and activists say the gay community still lives in fear...And publishing their names on a local newspapers is not cutting them some slack either. As much as it is 'harrasment' it puts the gays out there in unsafe condition, who knows what the public might do to them.
"We have got people who have been threatened to be thrown out of work, people who have been threatened by their own family members, who want to throw them out of their own houses," said Mr Mugisha of the Sexual Minorities Uganda.
Though the Editor of Rolling Stone Paper,Giles Muhame,
denied that he had been inciting violence by publishing the names next to a headline which read "Hang them". Really? So what were you implying when You wrote 'Hang them' ??? Please dont let this guy come out and say he was kidding! I am not a Gay activitist or anything and I do not support homosexual acts (what a man sees in another man or what woman sees in another woman is just upon me) but I am a Humanitarian and I believe we are all supposed to live freely and safely and without fear. And Publishing a list like that while knowing people's feelings towards homosexuality in the country is like a deliberate act to endanger their lives...its like a death list! They might've just well gon ahead and said ' Who we want dead before 2011'
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