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There is a surprising portrait in Ugandas parliament building. Its an oil-painted Idi Amin sporting a toothy smile and full military regalia. Amin poses while engaging in his trademark low-down, dual-fisted version of a fist pump.
Normally, it would be no surprise for a tourist to encounter a painting of a countrys former president inside the house of its legislature. But Amin was no ordinary president. He was a brutal dictator. He was allegedly a cannibal who literally ate his opponents and detractors for breakfast. The evidence for Amins cannibalism were the corpses of political foes found dangling by their Achilles tendons, after he was deposed, from meat hooks inside of a walk-in refrigerator at his compound.
Earlier this year a British journalistlets call him Ian Smith because, as youll see, disclosing his identity might preclude him from ever visiting Uganda againwent to the Chamber of Parliament in Kampala and took photos of some of the buildings more interesting features. The place was a ghost town at the time thanks to a special event where members of parliament were then gathered.
That made it easy for me to steal the document, recalls Smith.
The document he stole is titled: Protect our young people from homosexuality: Debate and pass the anti-homosexuality bill now!
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/09/04/stolen-document-highlights-homophobia-in-uganda-lgbt-news/
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)in east Africa. I'm shocked! Not!
Most Evangelicals are hate filled people because they learn to be so in their churches. F**k them! k&r
Behind the Aegis
(53,944 posts)The fact there are people in this country that support this is downright disgusting.