Prominent Ugandan activist stabbed
A prominent Ugandan activist was stabbed on Wednesday. A video posted to Coloured Voice Truth to LGBTQ Uganda Co-Executive Director Steven Kabuye’s X account shows him on the ground writhing in pain with a deep laceration on his right forearm and a knife embedded in his stomach.
Coloured Voice Truth to LGBTQ Uganda Advocacy Officer Hans Senfuma on X wrote two “unknown individuals who were on a motorcycle” stabbed Kabuye at around 8 a.m. (Reuters reported the attack took place close to Kabuye’s home when he was going to work.) “Steven claims that these two guys intentions’ were to kill him, not robbing and also claims that it seems they have been following him for up to several days,” wrote Senfuma.
Senfuma later posted to his X account pictures of Kabuye holding his arm while laying on a bloody bed sheet in what appears to be a hospital room.
Senfuma in the post wrote that Kabuye was out of surgery. Reuters reported that Coloured Voice Truth to LGBTQ Uganda said Kabuye is in critical condition. “This morning, a Uganda LGBTQ community activist was brutally attacked with a knife,” said Sexual Minorities Uganda Executive Director Frank Mugisha after the attack. “[Kabuye is] currently undergoing surgical treatment, we stand with the activist and hope for a full recovery.
