Ugandan activist blames anti-LGBTQ politicians, religious leaders for stabbing
washingtonblade.comA prominent Ugandan activist who was stabbed last week said politicians and religious leaders who are stoking anti-LGBTQ sentiments in the country are responsible for the attack. “The situation in the country where our politicians and religious leaders, people are calling for the death of LGBTQI+ (community) members in Uganda has led to people to think it’s okay to kill someone just because he’s different, just because he was born different,” Steven Kabuye told the Washington Blade on Monday during a telephone interview.
Kabuye is the co-executive director of Coloured Voice Truth to LGBTQ Uganda. He told the Blade that two men on motorcycles who were wearing helmets attacked him near his home on Jan.
3 while he was going to work. Kabuye said one of the men stabbed him while the other remained on the motorcycle. “I don’t know who tried to end my life,” he said.
Kabuye posted a video to his X account that showed him on the ground writhing in pain with a deep laceration on his right forearm and a knife embedded in his stomach.