A youth worker for Integrity Uganda, a Ugandan LGBTA support and advocacy group founded by the former Anglican Archbishop of Uganda, was found beheaded and mutilated in a rural part of Uganda yesterday, according to several independent press reports and bloggers connected to Integrity Uganda. Via the Box Turtle Bulletin comes video of an independent TV report on efforts to retrieve Pasikali Kashusbe’s head, which had been hidden in a latrine pit in the same compound where the suspects were arrested. Kashusbe and his partner Abbey were volunteers responsible for organizing youth through sports and drama.

Police found Kashusbe’s body while searching for the pro-LGBTI Reverend Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga, who disappeared over two weeks ago after delivering a pro-LGBTI sermon in a suburb of the capitol Kampala. If the suspects in Kashusbe’s killing are linked to the disappearance of Rev. Nsubuga, this suggests members of the Ugandan government are complicit in both the disappearance and the murder – the farm where Kashusbe’s body was found is reportedly owned by the head of Uganda’s Electoral Commission. Uganda has recently seen a wave of state-sponsored and state-associated homophobia, including the proposal of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, also known as the “Kill Gays” bill, by a leading member of President Yoweri Museveni’s political party.

Integrity Uganda’s chair Bishop Christopher Senyonjo issued a statement calling the murder “absurd,” and saying “clearly, the values of tolerance and social inclusion are sadly being sacrificed on the altar of state ignorance, ineptness and good old colonial stupidity,” a reference to Uganda’s anti-sodomy laws, which were introduced by British colonial-era government.