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Gambia's Print has ed his addrs to the Uned Natns General Assembly to attack gay people, llg homosexualy one of the three "biggt threats to human existence".

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US SLAMS GAMBIA’S PRINT FOR ‘UNNSCNABLE’ GAY MENTS

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The lear of a small Wt Ain natn that receiv Amerin humanarian aid has warned that any gay or lbians found his untry will "regret" beg born. Yahya Jammeh, who has been print of Gambia sce a bloodls up 1994, is not shy about exprsg his anti-gay opns. In an tertg juxtaposn of them, Jammeh lled for ntued peace his untry, promised to root out crimal activy and warned homosexuals to stay out of the regn or suffer severe nsequenc.

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“Homosexualy is anti-humany. I have never seen homosexual chicken, or turkey, " Jammeh said, acrdg to the Freedom Newspaper. "If you are nvicted of homosexualy this untry, there will be no mercy for offenrs.

" He ntued th:Homosexualy is anti-god, anti-human, and anti-civilizatn. Homosexuals are not wele the Gambia. Allowg homosexualy means allowg satanic rights.

MR. PRINT, I AM A ‘GAY’ GAMBIAN…

Gambia's print warned the Uned Natns General Assembly on Friday that gays were a threat to human existence, along wh excsive greed and obssn wh world domatn, and cricized other untri for regardg homosexualy as a human right. * gambian president gay *

We will not allow gays statements, while extreme, are le wh the print's prev ments on the April 2012, for example, the lear opened the legislative year by matag no foreign aid centiv would ever e him to change his md on homosexualy, a crimal offense the predomantly Mlim untry. "And 2008, Jammeh said he would "cut off the head" of any gay person ught the untry, a threat he later retracted, acrdg to Agence France-Prse. Dpe Jammeh's anti-gay stance, the Uned Stat still matas an Embassy the untry.

Embassy Stefan Baral, a public health specialist and human rights advote who has studied Gambia's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) populatn, said a phone terview that Jammeh is not jt a talkg head.

GAMBIAN PRINT WHO WANTED TO ‘SL THE THROATS’ OF GAY PEOPLE LOS ELECTN

Anti-gay rhetoric is also a velopg public health issue, acrdg to Baral, as HIV prevalence Gambia is relatively high.

GAMBIA’S PRESIDENT YAHYA Jammeh today brand homosexuals “verm” a speech on State televisn.

GAMBIAN PRINT SAYS GAYS A THREAT TO HUMAN EXISTENCE

“We will fight the verms lled homosexuals or gays the same way we are fightg malaria-g mosquo, if not more aggrsively, ” he said, acrdg to Euronews. He was rpondg to threats by Bra and other untri to stop aid to any ernment that pass anti-gay laws, as other Ain untri like Nigeria and Uganda troduced harsher laws for homosexuals recently.

“We will therefore not accept any iendship, aid or any other gture that is ndnal on acceptg homosexuals or LGBT as they are now baptised by the powers that promote them, ” he said. Related: Gilmore “eply ncerned” over Nigerian homosexualy law>. Read: Tánaiste: Anti-gay laws will “affect our valued relatnship” wh Uganda>.

GAYS ARE ‘VERM’, SAYS GAMBIAN PRINT

Gambia’s Print has ed his addrs to the Uned Natns General Assembly to attack gay people, llg homosexualy one of the three “biggt threats to human existence”. Print Yahya Jammeh said homosexualy, greed and obssn wh world domatn “are more adly than all natural disasters put together.

In 2008, Print Jammeh was strongly cricised by EU officials after he vowed to troduce laws stricter than those Iran, where gay acts between men are punishable by ath. He retracted a threat to pate gay people Gambia, but said they would be driven out of their hom. Read 2 mut(AFP)- The Uned Stat slammed Gambian Print Yahya Jammeh on Saturday for “unnscnable” remarks, after the Wt Ain lear reportedly threatened to sl the throats of gay men Gambia.

Homosexualy is illegal Gambia, and Jammeh created October the crime of “aggravated homosexualy” which rri a sentence of up to life imprisonment. In a speech last year, Jammeh lled homosexuals “ungodly, Satanic… verms [sic], ” drawg cricism om rights groups. It revoked tra preferenc wh Gambia last year followg reports of a crackdown agast the untry’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny.

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