Ugandan President Blasts West for Double Standards
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in a statement on Monday blasted the West for double standards over the conflict in Libya.
As regards the military attack on Libya by multinational forces led by the West, he said that while imposing a no-fly zone in a rival country like Libya, the West turns a blind eye to similar cases in pro-West countries.
If you're interested, you can read what Museveni actually has to say in this article penned for Foreign Policy. Frankly, I don't think Uganda is in any position to knock anyone over human rights:
Although much of that legacy has been dismantled as Uganda modernises, homophobia is as entrenched as ever. An anti-homosexuality bill, due to be discussed by parliament before June, advocates the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" –ie for gay people with HIV practising sex, or gay people who have sex with someone under 18. Known colloquially as the "kill the gays" bill, it would also make it a crime not to report someone you know to be a practising homosexual, thereby putting parents, siblings and friends at risk.
"One of the things the Ugandans say is that being gay is European culture, that it is un-African," explains John, 31. "There is this idea that Europeans and Americans are recruiting people to be gay, giving them money to do it."
Last October, the now defunct anti-gay Ugandan tabloid Rolling Stone published a list of the country's "top 100" homosexuals under the headline "Hang Them". In January, the prominent gay-rights activist David Kato was murdered – beaten to death in his home by a hammer-wielding thug. Gays, lesbians and transgendered people in Uganda face harassment, extortion, vandalism, death threats and violence on a daily basis. They can be sacked from employment if they are outed, forced to enter into heterosexual marriage and detained by the authorities without charge or access to legal defence. In some of the worst cases, they can be subjected to so-called "correctional rape".
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