{{Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has thrown his weight behind Uganda’s draconian anti-gay laws and hinted at a crackdown on gays in his own country, state media reported Monday.}}<\/p>\n
He castigated the West for punishing Kampala with aid cuts after President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a bill that banned homosexuality in the east African country.<\/p>\n
“They (the West) want to tell us… that it’s a violation of human rights, that is what they are doing to Museveni right now,” Mugabe said.<\/p>\n
“The human right you have as a man is to marry another woman not to get another man to marry, we refuse that,” said Mugabe at a weekend wedding reception of his only daughter Bona.<\/p>\n
Mugabe has previously said homosexuality is un-African and described gays and lesbians as worse than pigs and dogs.<\/p>\n
“It’s a terrible world we are in, a terrible world where people want to do things that they feel will enhance their own interests.”<\/p>\n
He said until recently he was not aware of the existence of an association of homosexuals in Zimbabwe, and warned he would want to know who belongs to the group.<\/p>\n
“I understand we have a group of homosexuals in this country. I didn’t know until I was told the day before yesterday. So we want to check on who is in that group,” Mugabe said.<\/p>\n
The Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) has long operated in the country despite Mugabe’s ranting against homosexuality.<\/p>\n
Police have on several occasions raided the GALZ offices and prosecutors had laid charges against the association accusing it of operating an unregistered organisation. However, a magistrate dismissed the case last week.<\/p>\n
Same sex marriages are outlawed in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
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