Gambia President: LGBT Stands For Leprosy, Gonorrhea…

“The president of Gambia has threatened to kill any citizen of his country who cites persecution of LGBT people in seeking asylum abroad.
“Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe. If I catch them I will kill them,” President Yahya Jammeh said in a speech in the city of Basse last week, according to African news service APA.

Possibly alluding to a 2013 parliamentary report that challeged procedures for those seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, Jammeh claim that British authorities think some Gambian refugees are lying about being gay, and have decided to administer tests to confirm asylum-seekers’ sexual orientation. “* The Young Turks hosts Ben Mankiewicz and John Iadarola break it down.

*Read more here from Trudy Ring / Advocate;
http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/05/16/gambian-president-gay-asylum-seekers-i-will-kill-them