Chechnya detains 100 gay men in first concentration camps since the Holocaust

[MissMischief]

Arrests are being made as part of an anti-LGBT purge in the region.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chechnya-de...ocaust-1616363

More than 100 gay men have been detained in concentration camp-style prisons in the Russian region of Chechnya, according to reports by local newspapers and human rights organisations.

The arrests are being made as part of a widespread anti-LGBT purge in the area. The prison camps are the first to be established for LGBT people since the Second World War.

The information was first published by the Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, which reported that men were being arrested and kept in concentration camp prisons where violence and abuse is commonplace.

Repressions against the LGBT community began after an application for a gay rights march in the Chechen capital of Grozny.

A prison camp has reportedly been established in the town of Argun, according to eyewitness testimonies.

The report was published on the 1 April, prompting the spokesperson for Chechnya's Interior Ministry to dismiss the claims as an "April Fools' joke".

The press secretary for Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, described the report as "lies" and stated there were no gay people in Chechnya.

"If there were such people in Chechnya, law-enforcement agencies wouldn't need to have anything to do with them because their relatives would send them somewhere from which there is no returning," he said.

Human rights organisations have corroborated the information published by Novaya Gazeta.

"For several weeks now, a brutal campaign against LGBT people has been sweeping through Chechnya. Law enforcement and security agency officials under control of the ruthless head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, have rounded up dozens of men on suspicion of being gay, torturing and humiliating the victims," a report by Human Rights Watch states.

"Some of the men have forcibly disappeared. Others were returned to their families barely alive from beatings. At least three men apparently have died since this brutal campaign began."

That's some Orwellian shit right there

[MissMischief]

No one cares?

[Dandelion]

Chechnya is a shithole run by a dictator with an iron fist. I have little hopes for that region. Hard to add more to this. The culture is what made it what it is today.

[Profileid]

I don't believe in mistreating people regardless of their sexuality. But this sort of thing is less about human rights concerns and more about pushing the gay agenda all over the world<---Western cultural imperialism

first concentration camps since the Holocaust

hahahahahahahahaha give me a fucking break. What were gulags?

[Dandelion]

North Korea also has concentration camps to this day. I agree, that that line is media dramatisation. My opinion about Chechnya already was near the bottom though.

[MissMischief]

I don't understand why being gay bothers people so much. Why do they even care? Why is it even part of state policy?

[Dandelion]

I don't understand why being gay bothers people so much. Why do they even care? Why is it even part of state policy?

I neither understand why some societies get violent upon hearing people are attracted to people of the same gender. Leaves me puzzled to this day even.

[Guru]

I don't understand why being gay bothers people so much. Why do they even care? Why is it even part of state policy?

It's because Chechen leaders are crazy, I want to remind that Kadyrov was actually connected with the movement that wanted to get Chechnya independent (even through terrorist attacks). You can't change a person that much, so he is just an insecure everyphobic idiot.

[War Chef]

Chechnya is a hyper masculine nation, no time for faggotry

[crazyladybutterfly]

there are chechens here. better to ask them if this is true