Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. January 2011. (Cameroon News) – Cameroon government wants the European Union to revoke the decision to provide the grant of 300,000 Euros to three of its local NGO’s.

Government departments , ministries as well as some groups of citizens have officially gone on record asking the European Union to revoke the decision to offer funds to three NGO’s who intend to use the funds for rehabilitating LGBT people.

The anti gay groups fees that these NGO’s who support gay rights are in fact illegal and going against the nations anti sodomy laws.

Homosexual relationships are viewed as illegal by the legal system of Cameroon and indulging in LGBT practices can get a person a prison sentence for up to five years.

On January 13, the Cameroonian Minister of Exterior Relations, Henri Eyebe Ayissi, had a crucial meeting with the European Union representative, Raoul Mateus Paula, wherein he openly revealed the “the disapproval of the government [to this] financing.”

“The people of Cameroon are not ready, nor disposed to go in the direction of the development of these practices in their territory,” Ayissi told the Cameroon Tribune.

A large number of student factions as well as youth associations have also gone on record carrying out protest marches and meetings raising their voices in indignation against the European Unions grant to these NGO’s choosing to refer to the act as an” attack on the nation’s sovereignty”.

These protests which have gone to the verge of creating a lot of violence and bloodshed will supposedly be called to an end only if the European Union revokes the decisions and takes necessary action to guarantee that money does not reach the groups or be used for any activity even remotely linked to the rehabilitation of homosexual groups which they term as “unhealthy”.

“The Cameroonian authorities should intercept these illegal subsidies that in fact constitute a grave meddling in the sovereignty of Cameroon,” wrote a very vehement protestor Sismondi Barlev Bidjocka, who is apparently the official voice of one such organization “Cameroonian Youth”.

I call on the Assembly of Cameroonian Youth to lead a campaign at the beginning of the school year for the sensitization against the gangrene of homosexuality in the secondary schools and high schools,” he added.

In the past couple of years the repression that the Central African country has been showing towards gay rights and homosexual practices have been quite hitting the news very frequently.

These issues had even been taken up by the United Nations who insisted that the country work on its laws that indicate homosexual practice as illegal and have been incessantly pressurizing the country to legalize sodomy.

This is in spite of the fact that thee is no human rights agreement that refers to gay practices as a ‘right’.

The Central African nation was also being forced by the United Nations to decriminalize abortions.

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The country was taken left and right by the United Nations in 2009 for the laws of the land which bans the killing on the unborn fetus.

When asked to provide an explanation for the same the Cameroon Government gave a very indignant response to the United Nations deploring the global tendency to legalize abortion which they chose to refer to as “murder”, “to the rank of a right and dignity.”

However organizations that support gay rights both within the country and outside are also forcing the government to rethink on the stand that it has taken towards the European Union funding and has asked the government to respect the rights of gays which according to them in a global commitment that forms an integral part of human rights.