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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChechnyas president vows to eliminate LGBTQ community by start of Ramadan
Reports of the imprisonment, torture, and killings of gay and bisexual Chechen men have become widespread as more victims are coming forward to speak out. Now, according to the British government, Chechnyas president, Ramzan Kadyrov, plans to eliminate the LGBTQ community by the start of Ramadan, May 26 this year.
Sources have said that he wants the [LGBT] community eliminated by the start of Ramadan, Alan Duncan, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, told parliament, Pink News reports.
Human rights groups report that these anti-gay campaigns and killings are orchestrated by the head of the Chechen republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, Duncan added. He has carried out other violent campaigns in the past, and this time he is directing his efforts at the LGBT community.
Officials at the Foreign Office verified to Pink News that President Kadyrov had made the threat in local Russian language media, seen by the UK government.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/04/chechnyas-president-wants-eliminate-lgbtq-community-start-ramadan/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS
Johnny2X2X
(19,074 posts)They are talking about genocide. The world needs to do something. You know our leaders won't do anything.
William769
(55,147 posts)But I can't. We all must make sure their voices are heard & not silenced!
MontanaMama
(23,324 posts)Yes.
Initech
(100,087 posts)Fuck them all.
MontanaMama
(23,324 posts)Don't think that this won't come here if these barbarians are successful. We never thought we'd be where we are now. This isn't over. This is no doubt in president bannon's play book.
William769
(55,147 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)These topics seem to go unnoticed.
William769
(55,147 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)about the concentration camps till I saw the President of Chechnya. I'm sure if he looked more like the Prime Minister of the UAE Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for an example. Donny wouldn't shut up about what was going on in Chechnya. We're seeing every day how having friends like Putin and looking like one of the Dugger boys you can get away was genocide.
JI7
(89,254 posts)herding cats
(19,565 posts)Please, think about this in terms of your loved ones, because it very well could be your loved one in the near future.
Not addressing such horrific crimes legitimizes them, and then they spread like the social cancer they are. Please, I beg people to pay attention to this and focus on the horrors taking place. Decry them for the crimes they are lest they land on your own doorstep. Because they will if you turn a blind eye now. This terrifying mentality is spreading.
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(32,342 posts)tblue37
(65,442 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)There are times I desperately wish I would have been wrong about a prediction. This is one of them. https://www.democraticunderground.com/113730126