After Proposition To Bring Back “Kill The Gays” Law, Attacks On LGBT+ Ugandans Has Risen

“Kill The Gays” is an old law that seems to be coming back to Uganda after a minister proposed the death penalty for gay sex.

Although the Ugandan government has denied it is planning to reintroduce the law LGBT+ rights groups have reported a series of attacks on LGBT+ Ugandans after these remarks.

“What we are seeing recently - these continuous attacks over such a short space of time - is not normal,” Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), told the ‘Thomson Reuters Foundation’.

“We know that they are all hate crimes as attackers made anti-gay comments,” he said.

“We cannot make a direct link between the minister’s statement and the attacks, but such remarks clearly help to stoke homophobic sentiments and hate crimes.”

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