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By Agence France-Presse
Monday, June 23, 2014 8:15 EDT
Uganda warned on Monday that US sanctions slapped on the country over its tough anti-gay laws would harm the most vulnerable in the country.
Washington last week froze some aid programmes, as well as cancelling military air exercises and barring entry to the US for specific Ugandan officials involved in human rights abuses, including against the gay community.
Signed by President Yoweri Museveni in February, the law calls for repeat homosexuals to be jailed for life, outlaws the promotion of homosexuality and obliges Ugandans to denounce gays to the authorities.
Uganda considers this announcement by the US regrettable as some of the halted funding and programmes in Uganda are those that will affect the most vulnerable people that the US government purports to support and aims to protect, the foreign affairs ministry said in statement.
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atreides1
(16,100 posts)Give us what we want or we will execute them...under our laws!
dballance
(5,756 posts)No, their the Devil's spawn.
Aristus
(66,487 posts)Don't put the blame on us!...
Vattel
(9,289 posts)Think of what sanctions did to the children of Iraq in the 90s. I don't know enough about Uganda, though, to know whether the claims here are true.
Meanwhile, we give military aid to Egypt in spite of the new regime's torture chambers.
indepat
(20,899 posts)would'a ever thunk it?
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Don't try to blame or shame us for what you did.
Coventina
(27,217 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)It's governments that make certain groups of citizens "vulnerable".