The Tightening Noose

Here's a fascinating on-location documentary from Vanguard about the anti-gay witch hunt currently underway in Uganda. (Running time is about 45 minutes.) It displays, with visceral immediacy, the frightening conditions under which Ugandan gays and lesbians now live (or try to live) their lives. It emphasizes the urgency of this, the most acute human rights crisis in the world right now. And it causes the heart to sink.

The atmosphere today in this central African nation is nothing short of toxic. And I can't help thinking about the last time such an atmosphere hovered over another central African nation - Rwanda. The precedent is very dire indeed.