Burundi President Calls For Publicly Stoning Gays

Agence France-Presse reports:

Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye launched a virulent anti-gay tirade on Friday, saying same-sex couples should be publicly stoned. He also lashed out at Western countries that press other nations to allow gay rights or risk losing aid.

Homosexuality in Burundi, a conservative Christian country in East Africa, has been criminalised since 2009 with prison terms of up to two years for consensual same-sex acts. Ndayishimiye, a Catholic, described marriage between same-sex couples as an “abominable practice”.

“Personally, I think if we see these kinds of individuals in Burundi, we should put them in a stadium and stone them. And it would not be a sin for those who do,” Ndayishimiye said.

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Burundi, population 13 million, is 93% Christian with Catholics being the majority. One of the smallest countries in the world at only 11,000 square miles (about the size of Maryland), Burundi is also the world’s second-poorest. Burundi gained independence from Belgium in 1962.

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