Museveni tells off US over travel advisory “We won’t be intimidated
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President Museveni tells off the US after issuing a travel advisory against Uganda over the passing of anti-gay law
President Museveni tells off the US after issuing a travel advisory against Uganda over the passing of anti-gay law.
The Ugandan government says that it is unperturbed by the United States’ decision to issue a travel advisory warning its citizens against traveling to Uganda following the enactment of an Anti-Homosexuality law.
On June 12, the US Embassy in Uganda released an advisory highlighting the dangers of crime, terrorism, and the alleged anti-LGBTQI+ laws.
According to the embassy, members of the LGBTQI+ community may face charges, life in jail, or even the death penalty.
Uganda’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem responded on Wednesday, saying that his country will continue to put its own interests first and refuse to bow to pressure from the West.
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“The American government has a right to issue advisory notes as they so wish in the interest of its citizens, but whatever they do, we will not be intimidated, we will not be bullied, we will not be suppressed to do anything that is not in the interest of Uganda,” Oryem is quoted as saying by the Monitor.
Despite the travel advisory, Oryem added that relations between Kampala and Washington remain cordial.
“We have been talking to them. President Museveni met the American ambassador and that is the highest form of engagement. This is not the first time Americans are issuing advisories. Friends disagree but overcome their disagreements and they continue being friends,” he said.
Uganda’s anti-gay law, which has been described as among the harshest in the world, stipulates capital punishment for “serial offenders” for transmission of a terminal illness like HIV/AIDS through gay sex and for having same-sex relations with a person with a disability.
It also decrees a 20-year sentence for “promoting” homosexuality and a life sentence for same-sex intercourse.
Firms including media and non-governmental organizations that knowingly promote LGBTQ activity will also incur harsh fines, per the law.
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