Police in Uganda have arrested 127 people for “smoking,” not coincidentally at a bar that caters to an LGBTQ crowd.
The raid happened around 2 am on Sunday night in Uganda’s capital city of Kampala. Patrons packed into RAM Bar, a disco located in the city’s business district which offers a rare refuge for queer Ugandans. The country has a reputation as one of the most violently homophobic nations on the planet.
Related: Uganda wants to start killing the gays. Again.
Armed police and army units raided the bar in the early morning hours, herding bar patrons into the street, with many trying to hide their faces from potential photography. Law enforcement later claimed that the raid had been narcotics-related, and that police were unaware of any LGBTQ people in the establishment.
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Of the 127 people arrested, two were later released with a full 125 due to appear in court this week. The raid on RAM Bar is just the latest in a systemic pattern of violence and discrimination against LGBTQ people in Uganda. This year has already seen an incident where a group of activists were attached with machetes and an angry mob had 16 people arrested in their place of work. The 16 suspects were later submitted to anal searches as part of their arrest. Non-vaginal sex remains illegal in the nation, and religious and government officials have suggested that the nation revive it’s now-defunct “Kill the Gays” laws, which would make anyone convicted of homosexual conduct subject to execution.
127 people suspected to be smoking banned substances were arrested last night in a Police raid on a bar on Hannington road. 2 released, 125 to appear in court today. LGBTQ community has called this an attack on their freedom, since a big number of them were arrested in the raid. pic.twitter.com/D6SbxwepDh
— #CanaryReports (@CanaryMugume) November 11, 2019
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Backwards cesspool of a “nation”….
Because nothing proclaims one is straight like performing an invasive cavity search on another man’s arse…
chupacabra
so go ahead and say it fool (that’s what I read you are) …. it’s a sh*ithole country? and you are a follower of the orange man too?
Bill Perdue
that’s a disgusting racist comment.
Chrisk
chupacabra
Hey welcome to the site troll!
Yes. It’s a foreign aid sucking shit hole country and no I don’t follow the orange man. I call any corrupt country (2nd worst in Africa) that victimizes it’s citizens a shit hole btw.
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The trolls continue to slither out from under their rocks…
mark m
Yes, but it is a “christian,” nation with “good family values.” They are “protecting” the children.
chupacabra
evolution takes time. to set yourself on fire, show your stupidity, and bark from the front porch doesn’t help and only inflames the discussion.
Cam
@chupacabra I notice you have been trolling by attacking and complaining. You are more than welcome to provide your explanation of why you are defending the virulent bigotry in Uganda.
Waiting…….
Chrisk
chupacabra
F*ck you and your evolution BS. These thugs are killing people.
Yes I do bark. I pay taxes and this welfare queen of a country sucks up 970 million per year. That’s how you got their attention last time. Just the threat of cutting them off is enough.
chupacabra
@Cum… not defending…working (professional life) to understand and change.
Plus you sissy queens on here are anathema to the future of queerdom in America. trying to disrupt all that too
Hussain-TheCanadian
So the Ugandan government and police got nothing else to do but harrass gay people at a bar, wasting the country’s resources on this insanity, Uganda must be the safest country on the planet with zero crime if they have that much time and energy on their hands to raid a peaceful gathering.
mark m
This why most all evangelicals “christians,” love Uganda. It is home to the world’s largest “church,” that is, you guessed correct, pentecostal. Mikey, the “Pootang POTUS” cheerleader Pence, VEEP is a member of one too. It is the same reason Amerikan evangelicals love Vlad Putin. Uganda & Russia are the keepers of world morality according to the god of their understanding. The ones who pick & choose what parts of the Bible that need to be enforced – anything that has to do with sex that is non-reproductive. And don’t worry all of us liberal members of the Episcopal Church are going to burn with all the queers in the big heated pool at the center of the world. Hail Satan, and his Apostles, Pence, Putin, and Donny, the Pootang POTUS!
Bill Perdue
This used to happen in the US not all that long ago. The Ugandan bigots are imitating American and EU bigots.
JessPH
There should be sanctions by the international community against this landfill of a country.
Smith David
I am so proud to be African- American. Our issues here in the USA aren’t perfect. But I’ll take a free speaking racist, bigot, homophobic any day over living anywhere else but America and maybe Canada. I like Canada too:)
Cam
These are the Ugandan politicians and rules that Chik Fil Et donations are funding.