The international community has received a reprimand from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni for its opposition to a law against homosexuality that was just signed this week.
Mr. Museveni rejected requests to have the law repealed and insisted that signing it was a done deal.
He declared in a statement after a meeting with members of his National Resistance Movement (NRM) party that “the signing of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is finished; nobody will move us. We should be ready for a war.”
“The NRM has never had two languages, what we tell you in the day is what we shall say to you at night,” he added.
Human rights organizations and Western nations have condemned it.
Asserting that the law was a “tragic violation of universal human rights,” US President Joe Biden demanded that it be repealed and said that the country was considering sanctions.
The law has also been condemned by the European Union and the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The law was signed after it was softened by parliament, but it is still one of the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world.
Gay sexual actions are punishable by life in jail. The law also mandates the death sentence in “aggravated cases,” such as the statutory rape of a victim under the age of 18 or the transmission of a life-threatening sickness, such as HIV.
Source-BBC
