In a chilling Q&A session with the press and public on Friday (December 29), Evariste Ndayishimiye (above), the president of Burundi, declared LGBTQ people “should be stoned.” Ndayishimiye has led the east African nation since 2020. https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1741418590031511771 From Pink News:
The president, who is Catholic, described the acceptance of LGBTQ+ identities as ‘attracting a curse’ to a country before claiming that there are no queer people in Burundi.
“Personally, I think if we see these kinds of individuals in Burundi, we should put them in a stadium and stone them. And it would not be a sin for those who do,” Ndayishimiye said.
He then suggested that being LGBTQ+ was like “choosing between Satan and God”. Queer Burundians living abroad who “chose Satan” should not return to the country, he added.
Since 2009, homosexuality has been a crime in Burundi punishable by up to two years in prison. And students there can be expelled from school if they are even suspected of having consensual same-sex relations. https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1740829436252168239
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