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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
This is going to come as a disappointment to you, snowflake, but Chechnya is predominantly muslim. These are mudslimes making these statements and murdering gays. Russians hate muslim Chechens. But you won't see that info in HuffPo's anti-Russia hit piece.
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Are you Russian? You sure are defending Russia and making excuses, and ignoring Russia's history & current political environment.
The story was broke by this Russian newspaper
https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles...biystvo-chesti
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/0...aper-says.html
MOSCOW ? First, two television reporters vanished. Then a waiter went missing. Over the past week, men ranging in age from 16 to 50 have disappeared from the streets of Chechnya.
On Saturday, a leading Russian opposition newspaper confirmed a story already circulating among human rights activists: The Chechen authorities were arresting and killing gay men.
While abuses by security services in the region, where Russia fought a two-decade war against Islamic insurgents, have long been a stain on President Vladimir V. Putin?s human rights record, gay people had not previously been targeted on a wide scale.
The men were detained ?in connection with their nontraditional sexual orientation, or suspicion of such,? the newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, reported, citing Russian federal law enforcement officials, who blamed the local authorities.
By Saturday, the paper reported, and an analyst of the region with her own sources confirmed, that more than 100 gay men had been detained. The newspaper had the names of three murder victims, and suspected many others had died in extrajudicial killings.