EU-Parliament adopts a resolution demanding more protection for the LBGT community from Uganda

"Nothing can stop the cruel murder of David Kato's making in Uganda undone. With yesterday in Strasbourg majority adopted resolution, the European Parliament shows that it supports the legacy of the Ugandan human rights and LGBT activists and continues with", stated the Green EU parliamentarian Ulrike Lunacek.

The resolution condemned the murder of Kato, an intensive investigation calls on the background and circumstances of the attack and asked the Ugandan government to ensure the protection of human rights activists and LGBT people and speak out against hate speech, incitement and violence. Kato, who worked for the activist group Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), was on 27 January has been brutally murdered in his house. The murder caused international outrage. Special consternation caused that Kato last year by the anti-gay newspaper 'Rolling Stone' with a photograph and name had been mentioned in an article that called to hang gays. Originally, it was assumed a connection with the murder of newspaper articles. After the police had, however, made the murderer is proved to have, that this murder but have no connection with the newspaper and nothing to do with homophobia: According to the offender he had murdered Kato out of anger over a lack of the love of wages (as reported here ).

Although Lunacek and the EU Parliament here in terms of Kato is probably wrong: the fact is that homosexuals are subjected to severe persecution in Uganda. There were even voices that demanded the death penalty for homosexuals. Only international pressure on this 'anti-gay law' discarded (as reported here) was. "The resolution of the European Parliament is also the efforts in Uganda stop trying for some time to reinforce the existing anti-gay legislation even further, including the death penalty. It is also the donor countries of development cooperation funds from the resolution in themade compulsory to make their support of the observance of human and minority rights in recipient countries depends, "says Lunacek accordingly.

With the adoption of the resolution provides Lunacek also a signal to the leaders of the country: "The European Parliament will in its resolution on the assassination David Kato that Uganda internationally with his policies against the rights of lesbians and gay men more and more isolated David Kato. murder shows where lead Verhetzungsspirale After the heated atmosphere in the election campaign. (Note: Today will be held in Uganda, the presidential elections). the policy makers in Uganda are required to bring back to objectivity in this debate and to weaken the entrenched positions "

Source: Gaywien.at