Sunday, January 30, 2011

Ugandan Who Spoke Up for Gays Is Beaten to Death; New York Times, 1/28/11

Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times; Ugandan Who Spoke Up for Gays Is Beaten to Death:

"David Kato knew he was a marked man.

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. Kato’s 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."

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