Uganda LGBT Volunteer Beheaded

By Julie Bolcer

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A volunteer for the LGBT advocacy group Integrity Uganda was found beheaded on a farm during a search for a missing priest.

Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin points to the Anglican blog Changing Attitude, which says that searchers found the head of Pasikali Kashusbe in a pit latrine on the farm of Badru Kiggundu, the electoral commission chairman, in Makindye Sabagabo, Wakiso District. They were looking for the Rev. Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga, who disappeared last month after delivering a sermon supporting gay people.

“Judith Nabakooba, a police spokesperson, identified the head as that of Pasikali Kashusbe, one of the workers on Kigggundu’s farm and a member of Integrity Uganda,” reports Changing Attitude. “Pasikali and his partner Abbey are youth workers with Integrity Uganda charged with the responsibility of mobilising young LGBT people in activities which build community capacity to face up to the challenge of homophobia, especially in the area of attitude change and care through drama and sports activities.”

According to Changing Attitude, Pasikali disappeared almost four weeks ago when Uganda celebrated Martyrs Day. A mutilated torso found earlier in the week about half a kilometer from the farm is believed to be Pasikali’s. The torso was that of a man and had no genitals.

Details on suspects and arrests remain vague, according to Box Turtle Bulletin, which included the following video report from NTV Uganda.

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Name: melvin
Date posted: 7/7/2010 2:24:30 AM
Hometown: South Dakota

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Considering the history of Uganda and its treatment of gays, I wonder why this story is not given press. It seems that most of Africa, cept South Africa has a vendetta against their gay citizens. Why has the police now taken interest in this case? My cynicism tells me that it has to do with international disgust. I don't believe for a second that they give a crap about this poor man. Nor that they had to pull his head out of a 'shithole!' Only until that government demonstrates concern by their laws and words would I believe that they care about issues such as this.
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Name: Barbara Wagner
Date posted: 7/7/2010 1:37:03 AM
Hometown: Munich

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@Bill: animals is not quite the right word, because animals respect the gay ones among them, they do not kill them!!!! The atrocities of these ideologically poisened peple are unfortunately only something that humans would do....
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Name: Jason
Date posted: 7/7/2010 12:39:23 AM
Hometown: USA

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BTW, beheading innocent people is crude too.
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Name: Jason
Date posted: 7/7/2010 12:33:25 AM
Hometown: USA

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To Kayle, and CH. There are some angry posts below, and their suggestions are worded much more crudely than necessary, but the basic idea of threatening the gov't of Uganda with cutting-off foreign aid unless they stop their policy of repression of lgbt, up to and including genocide, is not morally wrong, nor is it even unusual to make our aid shipments contingent on what the receiving gov't does. Yes, there's homophobia elsewhere also, but do you suggest that we should just continue to send foreign aid to Uganda, ignoring the reports of gov't sponsored and encouraged genocide against lgbt people, or any group of people. Why can't our foreign aid can serve two purposes - the humanitarian one, and as leverage to influence a barbaric national policy.
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Name: CH
Date posted: 7/6/2010 11:27:03 PM
Hometown: Minneapolis

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Gay men get killed in the USA too. Should all the people in the US not get food because of the barbarians that live there? Africa was not a christian nation prior to colonization. Wealthy countries rob them of there resources and then give them a frration back in foreign aide with strings attached rather than let them build their own economy. The Christian oragnizations dangle food in front of starving people if they accpet the word of god and become good christian soldiers. Whose battle are they to fight?
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Name: Ray
Date posted: 7/6/2010 6:23:27 PM
Hometown: j

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The cult know as the family and the republican party are both involved in the kill the gays bill in Uganda. They should be held accountable for this murder.
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Name: Bill
Date posted: 7/6/2010 5:35:18 PM
Hometown: Arlington

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BTW - don't miss the fact that they found this head WHILE they were looking for a priest! These animals (yes, people who behead human beings b/c of the their sexual orientation are ANIMALS), are the lowest of life. STOP ALL FOREIGN AID INCLUDING FOOD AND AIDS SERVICES.
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Name: Bill
Date posted: 7/6/2010 5:24:04 PM
Hometown: Arlington

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@ Katarina - any other country that you know of beheading gay people outside of Africa or muslims? We must STOP supporting them in any way. Send them back to the stone age.
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Name: David
Date posted: 7/6/2010 5:23:09 PM
Hometown: Chipping Norton

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Exodus International is a homophobic organisation and is as guilty as hell for its tacit incitement of violence against gay people.
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Name: Bill
Date posted: 7/6/2010 5:21:58 PM
Hometown: Arlington

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@ Kayle - would you like your head or those of your friends cut off? Nothing but a totally withdrawal of all funds and any diplomatic ties will get their attention. But sit back in Paris and think happy thoughts.

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