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.

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    3 days ago

    More like the old ways that got erased by colonialism

    Exactly. This is the type of thinking that permeates in places that have anti imperialist thinking.

    We can’t let the imperialist use the identity of our LGBT+ comrades as justification to destroy nations like Burkina Faso. Also, we need to reassure the people in these nations that we are part of their development and the revolution. We are allies and not their enemies.

    The imperialist from the US and Europe are well known to fund LGBT+ campaigns. We all know that most of those programs don’t really help our LGBT+ comrades but it does help to fund terrorists:

    “Without the support of this American aid agency, terrorist groups like the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara or Iyad Ag Ghaly’s JNIM could find themselves short of weapons, ammunition, and reconnaissance means. This is very good news for Africa, because USAID is an unconventional warfare weapon for American special forces, which use psychological manipulation methods and support insurgency and irregular warfare against Africans ,” said a Nigerien on condition of anonymity.

    • Nocturne Dragonite@lemmygrad.ml
      12·
      3 days ago

      It also gives justification for the imperialists to impose sanctions on them, which also don’t help anyone at all, most especially queer comrades in places that are besieged by imperialism.

      • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        3 days ago

        UK and USA imperialists are cheering. This is going to be interesting to see how it plays out

      • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
        10·
        3 days ago

        True. However, sanctions don’t have the power to disrupt these countries as it did before.

        Right now, (this is entirely my speculation) the imperialist are trying to attack solidarity for Burkina Faso within Western countries(this wouldn’t be the first time because they have done this against the Palestinian resistance). However, I am confident that our queer comrades within Burkina Faso will organize along with the current pro-women organizations such as this one to fight the conservative and religious, Coalition to Act Against Gender-Based Violence (Faso CAC-VBG).

        • Nocturne Dragonite@lemmygrad.ml
          9·
          3 days ago

          I have confidence that they’ll turn things around as well, Cuba has already set an example that I feel our Burkinabe comrades will follow in their own way.