ROUNDING UP GAYS IN CHECHNYA
It's all about Islam, folks.
April 18, 2017
Bruce Bawer
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Now Chechnya is again making headlines in the West. In recent weeks, hundreds of gay Chechen men have been rounded up and placed in newly built concentration camps constructed precisely for the detention of homosexuals. Most of these men have been – and are still being – cruelly tortured; some (it's not yet clear how many) have been killed. Igor Kochetkov, a gay-rights activist based in St. Petersburg, Russia,
told the
Guardian that the scale of this action is “unprecedented not only in Russia but in recent world history.” Near the top of its long, grimly detailed, and deeply disturbing piece, the
Guardian informed its readers – and it repeated these points later, too – that Chechnya is an “ultra-conservative Russian republic” and that “Chechen society is extremely conservative and homophobic.” What the
Guardian mentioned only
en passant, many paragraphs into the article – in fact, the detail was tucked away as expertly as possible – was that Chechnya is
Islamic.
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A
report by the
Daily Mail takes the dark picture painted by the
Guardian and makes it even darker. According to the
Mail, Chechnyans are actually “being ordered to murder their gay relatives after they are released” from the concentration camps. One survivor of the camps, who was lucky enough to escape to Europe immediately after his release, told the
Mail about a not-so-lucky friend, aged 20 or 21, who was let go from one of the camps “on the condition that his family would kill him.” They did. Another gay man, who so far has avoided incarceration, told the
Mail that gay acquaintances of his who were taken to the camps “were half dead after the beatings” they suffered there “and were returned to relatives like a bag with bones.” Whether their parents were devout enough Muslims to finish them off was unclear.
Rounding up gays in Chechnya
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