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Burkina Faso's Junta passes law banning homosexuality (www.france24.com)

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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.

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[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Communists are supposed to be leaders and a guiding hand of the people, it doesn't mean that their reactionary beliefs should be downplayed or mollycoddled.

The fact that Stalin and many communists were harshly anti-LGBT is half my point. Keyword, is WERE. There is no justification anymore. Not that there was in the first place, but even more so now.

I think Cuba is a different case, because the communists overthrew Batista and the U.S. backed cronies, in the mid 20th century.

If Cuba didn't have it's revolution until now, and then still persecuted LGBT people like Traore's government is, I'd be just as pissed and disgusted as I am now.