Contents:
- GAY UGANDANS REGRET FLEEG TO KENYA
- EMMANUEL HUDSON B: AGE, HEIGHT, BROTHER, WORTH, IS HE GAY?
- GAY UGANDANS REGRET FLEEG TO KENYA
GAY UGANDANS REGRET FLEEG TO KENYA
Media ptn, Hundreds of LGBT Ugandans who have fled to Kenya for safety, are facg harassment and attacks, reports Emmanuel IgunzaHundreds of people Uganda's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny have fled the untry to pe homophobia and persecutn.
EMMANUEL HUDSON B: AGE, HEIGHT, BROTHER, WORTH, IS HE GAY?
"When I uldn't answer them, they beat me up and when they saw on one of my documents that I was a Ugandan refugee, they abed me sayg I was one of the people Meveni [Uganda's print] had kicked out of the untry for beg gay.
His untry ma ternatnal headl recent years when tried to troduce a tough new anti-homosexualy law, which allowed life imprisonment for "aggravated homosexualy".
Image ptn, The Ugandans stand out this refugee mp as they are the only rints fleeg a peaceful untryEven that agency - the very group tasked wh protected LGBT people - has admted s own staff are puty head of protectn for UNHCR told me that staff have said that as Christians they uld not work wh, or talk to, a gay man.
GAY UGANDANS REGRET FLEEG TO KENYA
He was a church pastor Uganda and fled to Kakuma 18 months ago after his name was published a lol newspaper, which said he was gay. Image ptn, This leaflet, Swahili, asked the mp's rints not to mix wh gay peopleDpe reportg the cint to the police statn - suated about 300m (328 yards) om their pound - we still managed to fd one such leaflet stuck to a pole near one of the mps.
Image ptn, Not all the anti-gay posters had been taken down"It is such cints that jt show we are not wanted here, " said Helen, who teach at one of the dozens of schools the mp. "Back Febary, traffickers took advantage of what was happeng Uganda and we started seeg huge numbers of people g , claimg to be gay or lbians, " explaed Ms they are still offerg people om the LGBT muny a fast track registratn, she adms is not as fast as ial group of refuge who me to Kenya om Uganda were rettled abroad wh six months - a rerd time of bee of the unique secury challeng they faced.