Comments on: Uganda Watch: Bahati questioned about death of MP; Museveni outlines position on gays

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:38:24 +0000

@ Warren

Please do NOT publish the stuff I sent you on this. I have been advised that it would be better if the names of the detainees were not too widely publicized, especially if the likes of ‘Maazi NCO’ are still a stool pigeons on this blog.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:38:23 +0000

UPDATE: They are police, and are due to be charged (or not) on the 9th. Charges as yet unknown.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:38:23 +0000

CORRECTION (I was trying to do two things at once!)

UPDATE: They are ON police BAIL, and are due to be charged (or not) on the 9th. Charges as yet unknown.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:36:24 +0000

Also: the initial finding of the autopsy have apparently been published …

http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/638377-nebanda-death-cocaine-alcohol-found.html

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:36:24 +0000

“Bahati has a lot more pressing things to worry about than homosexuality.”

He may wind up taking it up as a hobby in prison.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:36:24 +0000

Here’s a report on the arrests: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/second-uganda-gay-youth-worker-arrested-%E2%80%98recruiting%E2%80%99-teens-homosexuality020113

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:36:23 +0000

Just a point of fact: Ntagali is an Anglican, not a Catholic. Cyprian Lwanga is still the Catholic Archbishop of Kampala.

Nebanda was a Catholic; perhaps this was the source of any confusion.

By: F Young

F Young — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:36:23 +0000

The Observer article is amazing, but seems to be all too typical of what passes for “politics” in Uganda (or more accurately, despotism, nepotism, reign of terror and low-grade civil war).

You couldn’t make something like this up; nobody would believe you.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:36:23 +0000

This is beginning to sound like similar to what happened with Saddam Hussein. While he lived his repressive (non-democratic) government stopped the natural bigotry of Islam coming to the fore. Then when he was removed, and vigilantism took over against gays in Iraq.

Should Museveni be deposed, I wonder if the mob-inclined, pseudo-democratic procedures towards gays in Uganda might be imposed.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:36:23 +0000

Clause 13 of the AHB is designed to make LGB/T/I Ugandans (actual or ‘suspected’) friendless and utterly destitute. That is perfectly clear.

And then, of course, there’s the even more appalling Clause 5, which could easily be used to ‘justify’ lynchings etc.

Thank you for reminding us, Warren.