Well here’s a horrible bit of news (so consider yourself warned):
Prominent Cameroonian gay rights activist and journalist Eric Lembembe has been killed in the capital, Yaounde, a rights group says.
Mr Lembembe’s neck and feet appeared to have been broken and his face, hands, and feet burned with an iron, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
The cause of the killing is not known, but Mr Lembembe is the latest activist to
be targeted in Cameroon, it added.Homosexual acts are illegal in socially conservative Cameroon.
Lots of things are illegal in most or all places, but that doesn’t mean they’re all punished with torture and murder. How strange and how appalling to be so freaked out by gay rights that it seems right to torture people to death for advocating them.
In December, a Cameroon appeals court upheld the sentencing to 36 months in prison of Roger Jean-Claude Mbede under anti-gay legislation.
His lawyer said he was sentenced simply for sending a text to someone to say he loved him.
Three years in the slammer for expressing love.
Well, there’s an ugly bit of disingenuousness, right there. The cause of the killing was, he was gay, and he wanted rights for gay people, and for that reason persons unknown decided to torture and kill him.