Zimbabwe Leader Calls British Prime Minster 'Satanic'
In an amazingly aggressive broadcast, the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe levelled a claim that British Prime Minister David Cameron was "Satanic," for even considering withholding a small amount of British aid from countries which do not respect gay rights.
"It becomes worse and Satanic when you get a prime minister like Cameron saying countries that want British aid should accept homosexuality," Mugabe said in a speech on Wednesday in the mining town of Shurugwi, some 300km south of Harare. Adding "To come with that diabolic suggestion to our people is a stupid offer," he said, according to the state-run Herald newspaper.
It was at the end of a heated Commonwealth summit back in October, that David Cameron suggested that countries currently receiving British aid should respect human rights, including gay right, or such aid may be taken away.
The issue has re-emerged this week as Zimbabwe drafts a new constitution, with debate on whether to adopt neighbouring South Africa's model of include gay rights in the charter.
President Mugabe has for many years ranted his homosexuality, anti-gay, anti-equality poison and this latest speech is no different. This time is no different, however again he threatens to punish gay Zimbabweans - "Do not get tempted into that [homosexuality]. You are young people. If you go that direction, we will punish you severely," Mugabe said "It is condemned by nature. It is condemned by insects and that is why I have said they are worse than pigs and dogs," he said, according to The Herald.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who formed a unity government with Mugabe in 2009, has said that he supports gay rights but that gays should "do their things in private". Although more recently he had stated that he believes the people of Zimbabwe will decide what they want in their constitution, which will clear the way for new elections.
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