Usg classic K.G.B. tactics, secury officers lured gay men to traps and tortured them to givg up the inti of others like them.
Contents:
- ‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
- MORE THAN 100 GAY MEN 'SENT TO PRISON MPS' CHECHNYA
- RSIAN CONCENTRATN CAMPS: GAY MEN IMPRISONED AND TORTURED, THIS IS HOW YOU CAN HELP STOP THE ATROCI
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
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But for the young man who lls himself Maksim, as for sr of other gay men arrted a pogrom this month Rsia’s Chechnya regn, pivoted to nearly two weeks of beatgs and said had started wh a chat room nversatn wh “a very good old iend who is also gay, ” and who suggted that they meet at an apartment. ”Gay men have never had an easy life Chechnya.
But the targeted, llective punishment of gays that began last month unr s pro-Kreml lear, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, is a new turn the regn’s long history of rights Gazeta, an opposn newspaper, first reported the pogrom, sayg that at least 100 gay men had been arrted and three killed the roundup. The victims e assumed nam their everyday followg acunt is based on terviews wh Maksim, who is his 20s, and two other gay men who were taed by Chechen secury agents.
Homosexualy is taboo Chechnya and the mostly Mlim surroundg areas of the Cs regn southern Rsia. “This society is highly homophobic, ” said Ekatera L. “Homosexualy is nmned.
MORE THAN 100 GAY MEN 'SENT TO PRISON MPS' CHECHNYA
Gay men are beg round up and held “ncentratn mps” the Chechnya. Reports claim that the men are beaten, electrocuted, and forced to s on bottl. Fearg the same fate, gay men are reportedly fleeg the Republic. The news first broke last week when an pennt newspaper, Novaya Gazeta ma the shockg allegatns […] * gay camp attack *
”Neverthels, before the crackdown, gay men Chechnya uld at least lead social liv, if heavily closeted on, Maksim said. “When two gay men meet, they don’t tell one another their te nam, ” Maksim said.
” Hill for The New York TimThe crackdown began after GayRsia, a rights group based Mosw, applied for perms for gay pri paras the Cs regn, promptg unterprotts by relig groups, the men said. In Chechnya, beme somethg even worse — a mass “prophylactic” cleansg of homosexuals, the secury service agents told the gay men as they round them men were held for as ltle as a day or as long as several weeks, acrdg to Human Rights Watch and to terviews wh gay men who later ped the regn.
Kadyrov’s spokman, Alvi Karimov, said the reports of an anti-gay pogrom had to be false bee such men did not exist Chechnya. Kadyrov characterized as “libelo” news reports that the secury servic Chechnya had been persecutg gay on Thursday, Mr.
RSIAN CONCENTRATN CAMPS: GAY MEN IMPRISONED AND TORTURED, THIS IS HOW YOU CAN HELP STOP THE ATROCI
Pkov, told journalists that the Rsian thori had found no evince that the Chechen police had arrted gay quickly beme clear to Maksim and the other men that the Chechen thori were applyg the same tactics ed by Rsia and by Mr.
Secury service agents took to posg as gay men lookg for dat on the Village and other chat rooms, or persuad those they had already ptured to lure acquatanc, those arrted said spread among gay Chechens. We’re jt gay guys. ”That, seems, is sentially what happened to Maksim, who had been rrpondg wh his gay acquatance for some time.
His acunt of the ceptn ed to ta him was nsistent wh others documented by Human Rights Watch and wh the acunts of the two other gay men terviewed separately for this six of the men the apartment were transferred to a makhift cell an abandoned buildg, where they were tortured wh electricy one by one, Maksim 11 days, he was released to a male relative, who was told that Maksim was gay. ”Fearg for his life, Maksim turned to a gay rights group, the Rsian LGBT Network, based St.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
Petersburg, which has tablished an emergency, round-the-clock volunteer group to help gay men pe the reassure the victims they are tryg to help, the activists have taken extraordary preutns, operatg virtually as a partisan cell behd enemy l, though they have done nothg illegal unr Rsian law. “The people don’t tst anybody, ” said Olga Baranova, director of the Mosw Communy Center, a support group for gays that is part of the volunteer work helpg gay men flee arrivg at the safe lotn outsi Chechnya, several young men said they had spected that the volunteer group was also a trap but had no other optn but to accept the help, Ms. ’”The work bought airplane tickets for Chechen gay men, found safe ho and arranged for doctors to treat those who had been badly beaten.
“Gays Chechnya and the North Cs are lethal danger, ” Igor Kochetkov, director of the Rsian LGBT Network, said a telephone terview. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 13 of the New York edn wh the headle: Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Pogrom: ‘They Starve You.