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- President Museveni of Uganda has ordered that
homosexuals
in Uganda be arrested and charged, a state-owned newspaper
has reported.
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- "I have told the Criminal Investigations Department
to
look for homosexuals, lock them up and charge them," the New Vision
quoted the president as saying.
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- His comments came at the opening of a meeting on
reproductive
health.
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- "God created Adam and Eve," he said. "I
did not see God creating man and man."
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- President Museveni's comments
come two weeks after the
widely reported gay marriage of two men in the
capital, Kampala.
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- Poll rejects homosexuality
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- Under Ugandan law, homosexuals
can be charged with "carnal
knowledge of another against the order
of nature."
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- Conviction can lead to life imprisonment.
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- A poll published in the New
Vision before the president
spoke said that 84% of Kampala residents
did not want homosexuality legalised.
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- The paper said it canvassed 505
male and female people
of all ages and educational standards.
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- The idea that
homosexuality is an imported western practice
and essentially
"un-African" finds echoes in comments made by
the Zimbabwean
President Robert Mugabe.
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- Mr Mugabe once described homosexuals as "worse than
pigs and dogs".
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