Proposed law potential 'genocide' for LGBT Ugandans

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Proposed law potential 'genocide' for LGBT Ugandans
Episcopal Life
By Cynthia Black, December 11, 2009


http://www.episcopal-life.org/80050_117740_ENG_HTM.htm


"WE ARE NOT SAFE!"

That's what Denis, a field producer for the film Voices of Witness Africa and a gay Ugandan, told me when I asked about current conditions in Uganda for gay folks.

"The witch hunt has begun and will only get worse," said another friend, who asked to remain anonymous.

Sixteen years ago, those same words were spoken just a short distance away in neighboring Rwanda, where, in 100 days, some 1 million Tutsis were slaughtered. A visit to the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda last year reminded me that genocide is never a spontaneous act. Those who committed the genocide in 1994 did not kill a million people overnight. They killed one, then another, then another ... day after day. The victims died one by one, their cries unheard or, worse, heard and ignored.