3 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, has appealed to African countries to save the world from the “degeneracy” and “decay” of homosexuality, which seeks to “eliminate all humanity on the face of the earth.”
“Africa should provide the leadership to save the world from this degeneracy and decay which is really very dangerous for humanity. If people of the opposite sex stop appreciating each other, how will the human race spread?” he asked on Sunday during a speech, picked up this Monday by the UBC public broadcasting network.
Museveni stressed, during a conference in Entebbe, that “broken families create homosexuals” and that same-sex unions are not genetic or hormonal, but respond to “psychological” problems while these relationships are “anti-humanity”. “They should be banned entirely,” he said, also questioning sex education.
“Children are children. They need to grow up like children. How can they invade their childhood and start teaching them about adulthood?” humanity on the face of the earth”.
The Ugandan president also congratulated the Ugandan parliamentarians for passing the anti-LGBT bill and vowed not to allow “the promotion and publicity of homosexuality” which will not be “tolerated” in the African country.
The recent law approved in Uganda that penalizes the identity of LGBT people, with punishments that can reach life imprisonment and even the death penalty, has been condemned by different United Nations organizations.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said the legislation is “one of the worst of its kind in the world.” In his opinion, it would mean a “carte blanche” for the “systematic violation” of Human Rights and would fuel social hatred.
The United Nations had already detected an increase in hate speech against the LGTBI population and echoed a study by a civil society group that denounced that, in February alone, there were more than 110 incidents against this community, from arrests to evictions, going through sexual abuse or public harassment.
