Pres. Yahya Jammeh threatens to ‘slit the throats’ of gay people

The president of Gambia has threatened to “slit the throats” of gay people living in the country, in a speech about the nation’s youth.

President Yahya Jammeh, who seized power in a military coup in 1994, made the chilling threat apparently in

response to Western leaders who have criticised the nation’s regressive attitude to homosexuality.

He made the comments during a nationwide agricultural tour, the latest in a long line of shockingly anti-gay comments.

According to VICE News, in a speech to townspeople in Farafeni, Jammeh said: If you do it [in Gambia] I will slit your throat. If you are a man and want to marry another man in this country and we catch you, no one will ever set eyes on you again, and no white person can do anything about it.”