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Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye launched a virulent anti-gay tirade on Friday, saying same-sex couples should be publicly stoned.

He also lashed out at Western countries that press other nations to allow gay rights or risk losing aid.

Homosexuality in Burundi, a conservative Christian country in East Africa, has been criminalised since 2009 with prison terms of up to two years for consensual same-sex acts.

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[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago (4 children)

"Burundi is the poorest country in the world by GDP per capita, and is one of the least developed countries, facing widespread poverty, corruption, instability, authoritarianism, and illiteracy."

"The country's dominant party is the National COuncil for the Defense of Democracy, a former Hutu faction in the civil war. It has widely been accused of authoritarian governance and perpetuating the country's poor human right's record".

The record is so bad it gets its own Wikipedia entry.

Source for above quotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi

This guy's a clown and a failure of a leader. His country is a mess and he can't run it properly. Maybe he should focus on his own failures before attributing failures to others.

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I was just thinking about the connection between homophobia and poverty.

It's always the poor nations that focus their efforts on things that don't matter.

[–] Critical_Insight 2 points 10 months ago

His country is a mess and he can’t run it properly.

You don't get it. It's because of all the gays

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

... facing widespread poverty, corruption, instability, authoritarianism, and illiteracy.

So, a conservative country then.

[–] coffeeaddict@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A lot of countries have their own "Human Rights in " page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sweden

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bet you a shiny nickel that guy’s smoking pole behind closed doors.

[–] e_mc2@feddit.nl 7 points 10 months ago

100% still closeted

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What if we stoned homophobes instead?

[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

it's funny because being homophobic is a choice, being gay isn't. So indeed it makes more sense to punish homophobes, as they are the ones who can actually change.

I love asking homophobics when they chose to be straight. Really catches them off guard.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

What if we all got stoned all the time?

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Too many, we would run out of rocks.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Dude probably smokes fat dicks.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Ya know what... I'm gonna say it... These guys are jerks.

[–] Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile, I'm calling for the stoning of conservative, christian Burundi presidents.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 10 months ago

a … Christian country

Love your next like you love yourself and so on...

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Homosexuality in Burundi, a conservative Christian country in East Africa, has been criminalised since 2009 with prison terms of up to two years for consensual same-sex acts.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

The only difference between the conservative Burundi government and the conservative American government is what they think they can get away.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, colonialism!

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

According to the article, being queer was criminalized as late as 2009. That's just people being dickheads because they can. :p


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