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David Kato slain in his home

David Kato, the best known advocate of homosexuals in the country, was brutally murdered in Kampala. He fought against the media smear campaigns and legal discrimination.

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TAZ: 01/27/2011


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"He was unconscious with wounds found on the head," said police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba. You can not say which Kato was killed. It was found a hammer. "We do not know if he was attacked because of his sexual orientation, or whether this was an ordinary crime," she says. In Mukono recently had a series of attacks occurred with iron rods.

Kato had filed a lawsuit in November against the tabloid Rolling Stone after his photo was printed on the title page. "Hanging" was written in large letters on his picture that showed him in swimming trunks. The new Rag was outed in a series of Uganda "Top-100-gays" with the name and place of residence. Subsequently, many gays and lesbians had received death threats.

David Kato was then considered for the Ugandan homosexuals organization SMUG in court. In January the court ruled in Kampala, Uganda in newspapers may come out no more gay men. We go to the security of those affected and their right to privacy, said Justice Kibuuka.

As long as the assassination is not clear, is going to speak now not even the Rolling Stone smearsheet it. "We sympathize with Kato's family and hope he will rest in peace," says editor Giles Muhammad the taz. "We urge the police to investigate and find out why he was killed."

Michelle Kagari, Amnesty International's deputy director for Africa, criticized Uganda's government. It is alarming that the government "so suspiciously quiet about the discriminatory rhetoric" was against gays and lesbians. In Uganda, illegal sexual intercourse with the same sex.

About a year ago in Parliament a bill was introduced that would exacerbate the previously existing anti-gay law yet. Even the death penalty was mentioned, went to human rights groups to the barricades. Donors threatened to cut off aid money. President Yoweri Museveni whistled then returns the Hetzer. Since then it has become quiet around the bill.