Statement from Gay Rights Advocate asks tough questions, makes charges, re Uganda's Speaker

Are Ugandan LGBTs not members of the human race; and are Uganda's Speaker Kadaga and her allies above the law?
 
Dec. 20, 2012 - PRLog -- Great Britain-based global LGBT rights advocate Omar Kuddus has released the following statement for press publication:  

Current Speaker of the Ugandan government, Rebecca Kadaga, guilty of human rights crimes?

"In regards to the Speaker’s proposed law in Uganda, if the law is passed she MUST be tried as an instigator for genocide and as a tool in the instigation in a crime of genocide.The International Criminal Court (ICC), defined in its creation what constitutes genocide and a crime against humanity and would be failing in its duty not to recognise that she is guilty for it has within its power to indict and issue arrest warrants for Ms. Kadaga and her cronies and western religious backers.This is but a simple decision as "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in partFor the purpose of the ICC, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:

(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(j) The crime of apartheid;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.

Above the universal law?

There is NO court in the world who could argue this simple fact or that her hatred has not influenced the lives of countless people, not only in Uganda but the world.

Her proposals if now passed will have effected  the world's LGBT population and brought mental torture to countless Ugandans, whose ONLY crime is that they were BORN gay.

If her proposals are passed the civilised world must protest in the strongest of terms and demand an abolishment of the heinous bill.

Furthermore,   demand that she is brought to justice along with the Ugandan government for the introduction and treated as the criminal that she and they are in promoting and endorsing genocide.

If the world does not act as such, it not only condones their actions and supports the persecution of a minority group based on their sexual orientation but will then gives others and the dictators waiting in the background to follow suit.

This has becoming apparent when, the leader of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Mulikat Akande-Adeola, stated in London to Davis Mac-Iyalla, founder of Changing Attitude Nigeria, that Nigeria too will pass a bill to jail every gay person and the president will sign it.  Akande-Adeloa insisted the new bill would become law, despite international pressure as the existing law which punishes gay sex with 14 years jail is not enough and pledged to resist pressure from the US in particular to withdraw the proposed legislation.
Akande-Adeloa said “she personally had moved the bill in the house and that the bill will be passed and the president will sign it into law and there are no two ways about it because it’s what they want.”
President Goodluck Jonathan could sign the proposed law as early as February 2012 as Nigeria’s lawmakers approved plans in Mid November to jail people for being LGBT and even imprison people that do not report homosexuals they know about to the police.
Thus in effect under the proposed law there would not only be a crackdown on LGBTs but lead to a witch-hunt. The proposals are requesting that openly gay people should be imprisoned irrespective if they have sex or not and all LGBT organizations would be criminalized. Gay marriage are to be punished by 14 years imprisonment for the couple and 10 for anyone else involved in the ceremony ,including wedding guests could be jailed. In addition anyone who knows about somebody who is gay would have to tell the authorities or risk going to jail for five years.

And ‘any person who directly or indirectly makes public show of same-sex amorous relationships’ would get a 10-year sentence.
In essence if the ICC and the UN do not take steps against the Ugandan government and the speaker Kadaga then other countries like Nigeria are being given a green light for committing genocide or crimes against humanity.

Capital Punishment is an inhuman retribution and contributes to the vain circle of violence and retaliation within society. Especially when totalitarian regimes, use executions as a legitimate means to oppress diminish and murder their minority groups.

On the other hand, psychological side-effects of executions, in short and long terms, are damaging to the victims’ survivors as well as to the executors of the punishments. Add to this the fact that execution reduces society’s sensitivity against violence and violent behaviour.
For the foundations of a civil society, for democracy and establishment of human rights, to respect the rights and the safety of alternative and freethinkers and to promote a non-violence culture, the omission of capital punishment is the first and foremost step.

We all may have different political, social and cultural believes and objectives, but we all have come to agree on one point, and that is, the importance of abolition of capital punishment for the sake of society and to achieve equality for all LGBTs in Uganda and Nigeria.

Sexuality is as important a fundamental right as all others and should be respected and all the worlds’ citizens should be entitled to live their lives as they chose without interference, persecution or fear as dictated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Being members of the human race entitles all people to these rights despite their sexual orientation, including LGBT Ugandans and Nigerians."

Omar Kuddus,  Great Britain, Dec. 20, 2012
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