{"id":1735,"date":"2005-07-24T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T23:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/24\/lesbian-activists-attacked-by-ugandan-government-police\/"},"modified":"2005-07-24T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T23:45:54","slug":"lesbian-activists-attacked-by-ugandan-government-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian Activists attacked by Ugandan Government Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Owukori of Black Looks<\/strong><\/a>, recently the Ugandan Parliament passed an anti-LGBT law, which was then followed by the government police raiding the home of a Lesbian Civil Rights activist, Victor Julie Mukassa, a friend of Owukori (although her name ‘Victor’ she is female). This raid and the attempted arrests are supposedly all apart of the Ugandan government’s plan to not only censor but wipe-out all LGBT civil rights activism in the country. And there was no<\/strong> search warrant for the raids or even possible arrest of Victor.<\/p>\n

The ugandan parliament have enacted a new anti-homosexual law and with this the Ugandan police yesterday stormed the house of lesbian activist, Victor Julie Mukassa. Victor tried to contact me today but unfortuantely I missed her call so the details on her present situation are still sketchy. However there is a report on the raid in Behind the Mask<\/a><\/strong> as follows:<\/p>\n

On the night of 20 July 2005, Victor Juliet Mukasa, who is the chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), had her residence raided by the Ugandan government police officials. The officials confiscated all documentations and other materials that had homosexual content.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the police contingent which was clearly intending to pounce on Mukasa, they didn’t find her at home as she had not yet arrived back home from town.<\/p>\n

On the house they found a gay activist from Kenya who works closely with SMUG. She was detained for the night. According to Kasha Jacqueline, a lesbian human rights activist, “They took her [the Kenyan activist] in so Victor and the other LGBT activists [from SMUG] would want to fetch her from the police and then they can arrest Victor specifically and or the other activists.[…]<\/p>\n

This purported trap to arrest for SMUG officials is suspected to be part of an elaborate plan by the Ugandan government to obliterate gay and lesbian activities in that country<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[…]Meanwhile she (Victor) cannot go home as people near where she lives planned to attack her. Once the matter comes out in the press she will be in even more danger. She is staying and moving from hotel to hotel. Victor’s human rights have been grossly violated. There was no search warrant on her home and her guest was stripped naked by the police and detained and both their lives are now in danger.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So if<\/em> the intention behind the raid (without a warrant), degradation of Victor’s guest, and attempted arrest (again without a warrant), was to stifle all LGBT civil rights activistm and Ugandan LGBT people in general, then add their government to the list of belligerently homophobic governments that would use terror to silence their own LGBT population and its leaders. Gee, you don’t think the U.S. will ever end up on that list<\/em>, do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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