Chechnya: Are They Eliminating the LGBT Community?

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By Dries Van Thielen

At the Libertarian Republic, we have been reporting on the horrifying anti LGBT-stories coming out of President Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya. Whereas Kadyrov’s earlier accusations of torture and LGBT-concentration camps were mostly based on speculation, the president himself, presumably, came forward last week and he announced that all gays will be eliminated by May 26, at the start of the Ramadan.

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I added the word ‘presumably’ since the allegations against President Kadyrov were made by the British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Sir Alan Duncan.

During a parliamentary session, Duncan claimed:

“He [Kadyrov] has carried out other violent campaigns in the past, and this time he is directing his efforts at the LGBT community. Sources have said that he wants the [LGBT] community eliminated by the start of Ramadan.”

At the moment of this writing, the sources for Duncan’s claims are unclear. Duncan, who is openly gay himself, has condemned these  ‘utterly barbaric’ and ‘despicable’ atrocities on numerous occasions.

Putin: We Have No Problem Here

On April, 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kadyrov held a public meeting at the Kremlin. Kadyrov denied the claims made against him: “As embarrassing as it is for me to say, there are would-be well-wishers who publish articles saying that in our republic people are being arbitrarily detained and killed”.

For the Kremlin, it is clear that most of the accusations are mere speculations. Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the press on this issue: “We do not have any reliable information about any problems in this area.”

The situation needs more investigation. Amnesty International launched an online petition to Aleksandr Ivanovich Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation, to investigate the situation in Chechnya. The petition can be found here.

(read: LGBT Activists Say Chechen Gov’t “Kidnapping” and “Torturing” Gay Men and Chechen Dictator Says He Didn’t Arrest All The Gays Because There Aren’t Any ).


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