Chechnyan concentration camp for gay men. For real?

[likesfish]

I was getting a new pc any way so drilled a couple of holes in it and set it on fire

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Feel like putting a warning, this is really shocking to read. Interviews with survivors.
Chechens tell of prison beatings and electric shocks in anti-gay purge: ‘They called us animals’

Absolutely horrific.

 

[newbie]

if what we read is true this is not just a case of an authoritarian regime oppressing a population, it's a whole population oppressing a minority. Including their own families.

15,000 people in the main mosque declared jihad against the journalist who broke the story, who is now in hiding. You can see her point, as Al Jazeera reported before she broke this story.

Interestingly, the last outpost of critical journalists has become Russia. The Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta and a website called Caucasian Knot are two of the few news outlets still reporting abuses in Chechnya.

They do this work at considerable risk.

In 2006, Novaya Gazeta's prominent Chechnya reporter Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead at her home in Moscow, reportedly on the orders of Chechen authorities.

Three years later, her colleague Natalia Estemirova who wrote extensively on Chechen human rights abuses was kidnapped in Grozny and murdered.

Last year, a journalist working for Caucasian Knot, Zhalavdi Geriyev, was kidnapped, tortured, and forced to sign a confession on drug charges, and sentenced to three years in a Chechen prison.

This crackdown on press freedom has resulted in Russian journalists "practising self-censorship on issues related to Chechnya", says Gregory Shevdov, editor at the Caucasian Knot.

Caucasian Knot has pages in English, including their most recent report on this story. E2A they attribute the story to Radio Liberty, which is a CIA propaganda machine.

 

[teqniq]

Analysis | She broke the story of Chechnya’s anti-gay purge. Now, she says she has to flee Russia.

Novaya Gazeta is no stranger to hostility and controversy. The crusading Russian newspaper is known for powerful investigations — and in Russia, this sort of work can provoke an angry reaction. The paper's star reporter Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her apartment building in 2006. Exactly who ordered her murder has never been confirmed.

Even so, the wave of threats now being made against the paper and its reporters comes as a shock even to those who work there. This week, the newspaper put out a statement that warned religious leaders in the Russian republic of Chechnya were attempting to incite people to “massacre journalists” after a meeting in a Grozny mosque on April 3....

 

[isvicthere?]

There's people in western countries that would love to do the same thing. Anyone old enough to remember the first reactions to the AIDS epidemic?

The Gay Plague, as it was sensitively dubbed in the British tabloids.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Issue being talked about on LBC now. Pretty grim stuff. Apparently the police have been saying to parents "kill your children or we will".

Here's the cunt behind the policy.

 

[FreguentLy]

The things is , that you do not even need to be gay to vanish in the russian penitentiary system for nothing (!) , that has a long and "Good" goulag tradition. After this Caucasian republic was denied independence and was destroyed (the capital was acknowledges to be (!) Worlds' most damaged city after WW2.... accorind to international organization around 150-.000 people were killed, the majority are civilians. . Your only crime could be showing disloyalty or not enough loyalty to the russian'backed authorities to be placed into the gulag. That is logical, considering the fact that people in power in russia are exactly the same people (their mental descendant) as those who were in gulag, exactly from the same organization KGB-FSB (Same shit) . exactly with the same methods.

ItWillNeverWork, not exactly, the cunt behind this policy is putin and russian gov't. the issue a bit more complicated that it could appear. it is in interest of this guys that people just blame local midget puppets. who are just providers of the federal anti-human policies. so they could always says "they are savages , its their tradition, we are multinational multoconfessional state" its such a farce u can't even imagine.

there is much history behind that ugly story. the history of 200 year oppression and denial of basic human rights to the whole gay and non gay, women and man, adults and kids - native population being killed and persecuted equally harsh as jews or armenians or gipsies. and that is no exxageration .

with all due respect to other people posting, this has nothing to do with relativism or moral imperialism or any other form or state. what is happening in that region for a long time could and should be characterize as sporadic genocide acts through deportation (1864, 1944), chemical weapons use against civilians (1994-2005) , concentration camps (chernokozovo and others ) + constant oprressions, denial of basic rights . ethnic cleansings ..

 

[krtek a houby]

And now the corrupting music

Chechnya bans dance music that is either too fast or too slow

Ruling means music in Russian republic must ‘conform to Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm’

www.theguardian.com

 

[skyscraper101]

Musa Dadayev, the culture minister, said “all musical, vocal and choreographic works should correspond to a tempo of 80-116 beats per minute” to make music “conform to the Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm”, according to the Russian news agency Tass.

“Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible,” Dadayev said. “We must bring to the people and to the future of our children the cultural heritage of the Chechen people. This includes the entire spectrum of moral and ethical standards of life for Chechens.”

Does this guy know how to party or what?!

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Does this guy know how to party or what?!

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Also outlaws one of Putins favorite marching songs apparently..

 

[skyscraper101]

I just checked the BPM of 'Relax' by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and it comes in at 115 BPM, one shy of the legal limit.

In your face Dadayev.