I expect simple behaviours here. Friendship, and love. Any advice should be from the perspective of the person asking, not the person giving! We have had to make new membership moderated to combat the huge number of spammers who register
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Brody's Notes... Box Turtle Bulletin Reports: Ugandan LGBT Advocate Found Beheaded
The Box Turtle Bulletin's Editor-In-Chief reports today that the search for a missing pro-gay priest, the Rev Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga, who disappeared almost two and half weeks ago after delivering a scathing speech at St. Paul's Church, Kanyanya supporting homosexuality in Uganda, led the joint search team of Integrity Uganda and Namirembe Diocese to the severed head of another person.
By Jim Burroway (Phoenix, Arizona) July 6 | A reader tipped me to this horrible news. The severed head of a volunteer for Integrity Uganda, the pro-LGBT organization founded by Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, was found in a pit latrine on a farm in Makindye Sabagabo, Wakiso District.
Judith Nabakooba, a police spokesperson, identified the head as that of Pasikali Kashusbe, one of the workers on Kigggundu’s farm and a member of Integrity Uganda. Pasikali and his partner Abbey are youth workers with Integrity Uganda charged with the responsibility of mobilising young LGBT people in activities which build community capacity to face up to the challenge of homophobia, especially in the area of attitude change and care through drama and sports activities.
According to the police, a mutilated torso which was earlier in the week discovered in Kabuuma Zone, about half a kilometre away from Kiggundu’s farm was probably Pasikali’s The torso was described as belonging to a young man and had no genitals. Pasikali went missing over three and half weeks ago when the country was celebrating Uganda Martyrs Day. All efforts by his partner Abbey and other family members to find him had been fruitless.
Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, Chairperson of Integrity Uganda lamented the murder of this young man as ‘absurd’ adding that, ‘clearly, the values of tolerance and social inclusion are sadly being sacrificed on the altar of state ignorance, ineptness and good old colonial stupidity’.
Uganda’s Martyr’s Day, a national holiday, is a particularly dangerous time for LGBT people. The holiday commemorates the death of several Anglican and Catholic missionaries ordered by the Bugandan King Mwanga II, who felt that foreign religious influences posed a threat to his kingdom. In fact, his fears proved correct; the executions prompted Britain to invade Uganda and turn it into a British colony. Popular lore has it that King Mwanga II, who himself was a teenager, killed the martyrs because they refused his homosexual advances. It is unclear how much of that part of the story is true or how much of it is lore that was reinforced by the British colonial government to discredit the king.
The farm where Kashusbe’s head was found is reportedly owned by Badru Kiggundu, who is the chairman of Uganda’s Electoral Commission. Police found the head while searching for a missing priest, Rev Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga, who disappeared almost two and half weeks ago after delivering a speech at St. Paul’s Church in Kanyanya supporting homosexuality in Uganda.
The independent television network NTV Uganda posted this video three days ago, but doesn’t mention the circumstances which appear to have led to Pasikali’s murder:
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... please don't take our "Collective" lack of response to your thread as indifference; it's just, really ... how does one respond to something so horrific as this?
Do we wring our hands in disgust?
Are we expected to rant and rave about the injustice of it all?
Should we be righteously indignant?
Is "Where, but by the grace of God we might have gone" to become our silent prayer and mantra?
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Daily, all over the World travesties of justice prevail in one manner or another; this is nothing new; our awareness of them to the degree that we have become, is simply a by-product of the times and its' technology.
As a youth, the Clifford Olsen's, the Robert Pickton's, the William Patrick Fyfe's, the Paul Bernardo's and the Saul Betesh's of this World existed to one degree or another; just as surely as the Jeffrey Dalhmer's and the John Wayne Gacy's, et all,did elsewhere.
I use the example of a few Serial Murderers in both Canada and the United States, simply to illustrate how inured, both as a society and as individuals, we have become to repeated, and ongoing revelations, of News stories featuring horrific events. It's not that the "Columbine's" or the "Idi Amin's" (or their ilk), or the disappearance and murder of Missionaries in Honduras didn't exist 50- or 40- or even 30-years ago, it's just that we didn't have 24/7/365 media coverage of these events; the news of which often taking days, and sometimes weeks to reach our ears, and our eye; and of course, in most instances, these events had all but passed into the then recent memory and and as such we didn't, couldn't, feel any immediacy about them. With immediacy comes horror, which begats outrage, which in turn begats self-righteousness, which in turn begats fear and eventually pity.
We have long known about the perils, the hardships, faced and the ongoing struggles for equal human rights in countries such as Uganda (hell's bell's its' been going on there alone for more than 50-years, with or without the Idi Amin's and his successor in crime whose name I can't even recall), in Iraq and Iran, in China, in Cambodia, in Burma, in Zimbabwe ... even right here at home in Canada and the United States as I type this. Unfortunately it will continue well after both you and I have long departed this veil of tears, and probably longer still. I'm afeared that it is part of the human condition; this whether you and I like it to be.
Continue, by every means available to you, reporting these horrors; but, never be surprised by the sound of silence that may accompany them.
Sometimes it all simply becomes too much.
This has likely been one them.
Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
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Top story now on The Box Turtle Bulletin: "Sexual Minorities Uganda has issued a statement concerning the beheaded gay activist hoax. I’ve included the statement after the jump. To say that knowing that this web site helped to propagate that hoax is humiliating would be an understatement. We’ve worked hard at BTB in establishing our credibility, and I believe that a key component of that is also to maintain an atmosphere of transparency and accountability when we get it wrong. Along the way, I’ve learned that some sources on the Internet are trustworthy, and others are not worth the electricity it takes to power their servers. Until now, I hadn’t had the need to pass judgment on Changing Attitude, but I think you can probably guess where I stand now."
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My staff had already ran the Hoax disclosure on the BN&S blogsite & I am glad EJ ran it here as I had forgotten to repost it. Please refer to the link that EJ provided.
~Brody
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