Murder of David Kato
Letters to the Editor, The Irish Times, Saturday 29th January 2011
A chara,
The brutal killing of David Kato (World News, January 28th) is a crime born of 
such wretched ignorance and appalling bigotry as to demand the full and immediate focus of our outrage.
In a month that has already seen the killings in Tucson, allegedly prompted by the militant fulminations of the Tea Party media machine, Kato’s murder throws an urgent light on the role of media in conducting public opinion and the risks that are run when intolerance informs their agenda.
The editor of Uganda’s Rolling Stone newspaper, which published the names and addresses of more than 100 Ugandan homosexuals, including Kato, protested yesterday that he did not want the public to attack “people who promote homosexuality” – he just wants the government to hang them. Continue reading
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