Former Ugandan president splits with Japanese Internet bride over Moon
Wow. Is this the day for El Bizzaro tech-related news, or what? First it was O.J. stealing satellite TV, now it's Sun Myung Moon.
This nugget comes to us via an AFP newswire report, on Yahoo! News:
An octogenarian ex-president of Uganda who married a Japanese woman he fell in love with over the Internet has split with his bride, alleging that she was trying to force him to join the Korean-based Unification Church.
After less than a year together, Godfrey Binaisa, 85, said he could no longer remain with Tomoko Yamamoto, whom he married last July in a mass wedding at Korean billionaire Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in Seoul.
In a court document, Binaisa cited "irreconcilable differences" for the break-up, specifically "the fact that I am being unduly influenced, cajoled and/or coerced to convert to the Reverend Moon's Unification Church contrary to our earlier understanding that I will not change my faith."
The July 22 document, a copy of which was obtained by AFP on Wednesday, said the Seoul marriage had never been formalized in Uganda and that former president had given Yamamoto 30,000 dollars in cash as a settlement.
posted by Fergie @ 7/27/2005 12:03:00 PM
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