Burkina Faso's junta passes law banning homosexuality
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Burkina Faso's ruling junta on Monday unanimously passed a law banning homosexuality as part of a wider reform of family and citizenship legislation. The new law, which aligns with a broadening crackdown…

Junta-run Burkina Faso has passed a law banning homosexuality and instituting punishments of up to five years in jail, the latest in a clutch of African nations to pass anti-gay legislation.

“The law provides for a prison sentence of between two and five years as well as fines,” Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala said on national broadcaster RTB.

“If a person is a perpetrator of homosexual or similar practices, all the bizarre behaviour, they will go before the judge,” he said, adding that foreign nationals would be deported under the law.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I haven’t read enough therefore I have no right to speak. But I’m gonna ask, is this similar to how post-socialist eastern European countries got filled with reactionaries? Because imperialist nations are like vultures and will fund whatever vile forces of reaction to ensure oppressed nations never have coherent power. Like the strategy imperialist nations took against the Balkans too.

    So after the 1980s did imperialist nations fill Burkina Faso with reactionary forces to destabilize it? And this new law is a long term symptom?