Comments on: Anti-Gay Vigilantism Unleashed In Kenya, More Mob Arrests Feared

By: paul canning

paul canning — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:29:59 +0000

Turns out they weren’t even arrested but taken by police to protect them from the mob. See http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2010/02/kenya-mtwapa-clerics-want-to-eradicate.html

By: Edward Miessner

Edward Miessner — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:37:21 +0000

Arresting people who are gaybashed??? That is just WRONG. Yet it is the inevitable result of US fundamentalists stirring **** up.

By: paul canning

paul canning — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:49:38 +0000

@John in MN

GAY AND LESBIAN COALITION OF KENYA http://galck.org/

By: John in MN

John in MN — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:08:17 +0000

Sounds like we need to get money to the LGBT and Human Rights groups that are trying to help gay people. Does anyone know how to reach them and donate money??

By: Bill S

Bill S — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:25:12 +0000

The VICTIMS of the assaults were arrested, but none of the perpetrators? That’s REALLY messed up.
It’s also messed up that there are still people in this country who don’t view persecution of LGBT folk as a human rights violation.

By: paul canning

paul canning — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:01:43 +0000

It is worth mentioning that the local activist reports also say that reporters, including the BBC, went to the Kemri clinic on the Thursday of the press conference and were told there was no wedding.

Activists have also told me there has been little contact with them by the media and certainly their statements – and now that of Human Rights Watch – have failed to be reported by the MSM.

In other words AFP and BBC at minimum carried the incendiary hate speech without checking on the rumour. A rumour which should have been at least considered as nonsensical given the anti-gay atmosphere in Kenya and which the details you note here underlines as nonsensical.

This rumour has gone around the world, on the backs of the supposed credibility of BBC/AFP. It is depressing to see it carried verbatim in the gay press (Advocate, pinknews etc).

I have a formal complaint into the BBC who, remember, last December asked their African readers if it was OK to kill homosexuals.