Ugandan official: cane bodies of people who die from drinking gin

By TOM PHILLIPS - Monday, November 16, 2009

Ugandan government official has said that the bodies of people who die from drinking an illicit local gin should be caned six times before burial as an example to the living.
District commissioner Edwin Komakech advocated the corpse-punishing on Saturday at a security meeting in the Amuru district.

Some who make the local gin, called waragi, have begun distilling it with poisonous methanol. Over 50 people have died in the last two months in Uganda from drinking the gin.

Last week, police said they would launch an investigation into the making of the dodgy waragi.

In Uganda, the bodies of those who commit suicide are also caned as a form of dishonour, and to warn against such behaviour for the living.