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grossproffit

(5,591 posts)
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 01:56 PM Apr 2017

The anti-gay purge in Chechnya must be stopped

THE ADMINISTRATION of Russian President Vladimir Putin has never disguised its disdain for lesbians, gay men, and anyone else it deems to have a “nontraditional” sexual orientation. Yet in a nation with an open disregard for human rights, recent events have taken an even more disturbing turn. A Russian opposition newspaper is reporting that more than 100 men who are gay or perceived to be gay have been arrested and detained in the Russian republic of Chechnya in the past month. It is believed some have been tortured, and at least three men killed.

Antigay tensions intensified last month when GayRussia.ru, a gay rights group based in Moscow, applied for permits to hold rallies in the majority-Muslim North Caucasus region. Not surprisingly all were denied, but the requests alone fueled antigay protests. Shortly thereafter, male teenagers and adults began to disappear.

“In Chechnya, the command was given for a ‘prophylactic sweep,’ and it went as far as real murders,” the newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported.

Chechen authorities call these accounts “absolute lies and disinformation.” Bizarrely, Alvi Karimov, a spokesman for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, claimed the story is false because there are no gay men in the republic. “You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic,” Karimov told the news agency Interfax. “If such people existed in Chechnya, law enforcement would not have to worry about them, as their own relatives would have sent them to where they could never return.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2017/04/22/the-anti-gay-purge-chechnya-must-stopped/dq0WH7QdHklwVppOWgFgVP/story.html

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The anti-gay purge in Chechnya must be stopped (Original Post) grossproffit Apr 2017 OP
Crimes against humanity! shenmue Apr 2017 #1
I'm normally 100% against war. Initech Apr 2017 #2
Bordering on genocide Johnny2X2X Apr 2017 #3
The homophobes in the clergy and Congress are probably cheerleading this. Initech Apr 2017 #10
Kick - lets get some attention for this thread stillsoleft Apr 2017 #4
i've NEVER heard trump use the phrase 'human rights'.... suspect i never will. spanone Apr 2017 #5
K&R smirkymonkey Apr 2017 #6
Does Russian actually control Chechnya? HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #7
K & R. How barbaric and disgusting rollin74 Apr 2017 #8
I'd rather save the people of NK from Kim Jong Un Calculating Apr 2017 #9

Initech

(99,915 posts)
2. I'm normally 100% against war.
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 02:22 PM
Apr 2017

But I wouldn't mind at all if Putin and Kadyrov were bombed back to the stone ages. The worst human beings on earth.

Johnny2X2X

(18,745 posts)
3. Bordering on genocide
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 02:24 PM
Apr 2017

This is genocide and the world needs to stop it. We do not have the leadership now in America to even mention it. This is a tragedy.

 

HoneyBadger

(2,297 posts)
7. Does Russian actually control Chechnya?
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 04:00 PM
Apr 2017

My understanding was that Russia was getting its butt kicked by them and bought off the local equivalent of Tony Soprano to back down. In which case the solution is bribery.

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