Attacks reported on Ugandans newspaper 'outed' as gay

[Charlie]

Some food for thought. I just read this on-line article from the BBC. Its about violent acts being done to gays in Uganda. What do you guys think about this? Should the newspaper company be allowed to do this?

Apparently, according to the article, the newspaper company was pretty much a nobody prior to releasing these info.

Is this simply a publicity stunt by the newspaper company for 10 seconds of fame?
A few quotes...


Several people have been attacked in Uganda after a local newspaper published their names and photos, saying they were homosexual, an activist has told the BBC.


The Rolling Stone says it will continue to publish the names of homosexuals

Read the full article here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11608241).

[Roflkopt3r]

That's so perverted it leaves me speechless.

I wonder what kind of people published the names and what kind of people did those attacks. 85% of Ugandan population is Christian though, so I directly blame the Vatican as well with their archaic positions that things like these actually happen.

[Charlie]

One interesting point in the last part of the article that raised some questions for me was this.
"The police said they had not received any formal complaints of any attacks."

Seriously?

[Roflkopt3r]

One interesting point in the last part of the article that raised some questions for me was this.
"The police said they had not received any formal complaints of any attacks."

Seriously?

It's Uganda, the country next to Kongo... I don't expect authorities over there to have much of an influence at all, I guess it won't make a difference... whether the police really didn't noticed (possibly for some bucks) or even participated in these attacks, who knows.

[Xsoteria]

Holy crap, publishing the names of gays? I mean, I get it when Americans do it for pedophiles (although I don't really agree with it), this is beyond messed up. "This and this person is gay. The person lives here. (gogogo wreck the person)".

Amazing. How the hell did they get this personal info and all those names anyway? What will they do after they run out of names to show, make some up? Random people? Seeing as how there's no initiative to stop them from publishing stuff like that, it's a plausible scenario.

[kkck]

Wow, that is horrible. Even in a country like Uganda legal action against something so horribly unethical(should be ilegal too but I don't know that for a fact in that particular country) should be possible. I guess the main issue about that would be the actual view of the ones who enforce justice.

[Imperium]

I was actually in Uganda for about a week in the summer, and while one cannot learn much in such a short amount of time. What I noticed apart from it being a deeply christian country, was that this was not even considered major news compared to the more recent troubles with AU troops in Somalia and the bombings. This may have changed, but from what most people seem to be discussing and more concered about other than the troops in Somalia, was the bombings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2010_Kampala_attacks) that happened during the world cup.

For me it this, more than anything else that defines this country currently and I think were this whole homosexual baiting situation seems to have escalated from. From that I mean, one of the commen themes that run when such attacks happen is a more collective return to religion. People who were religious before become even more zealous in their practises while others who were indifferent begin (for a time admittedly) going to church etc . Now I am not suggesting its all a result of a bunch of a minority of nutjob christians, but i can see how the newspapers are a consequence of the general populations increasing pro-Christian and nationalistic feelings. It is something regrettable but what is more regrettable is the consequences of the attack giving the more right wing evangelical Christians groups more support in their proposed Anti-Homosexual bill which is the elephant in the room.