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protection for all people regardless of race, religion, gender, sex orientation or disability.”
The Zambia Rainbow Coalition, a local non-governmental organisation, has since asked Ban to apologise for trying to knit into the coun- try’s moral fibre, vices that are offensive.
The organisation has described the secretary-general’s move to promote homosexuality in Zambia as an act of trying to force foreign “cultures in exchange for aid” and noted that this is a new form of colonialism.
“It is with utter displeasure that we the Zambia Rainbow Coalition note that the historic visit of the UN secretary-general was to be an ambassador of colonialism and not development.
“We would like to categorically state that in Zambia we have our own morals and culture and we believe that homosexuality is not part of our culture,” the organisation’s programme director Malekano Mwanza said in a statement.
Homosexuality, he said, is like all other mental diseases which need to be treated through an array of rehabilitative approaches. — Xinhua.
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