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MOSCOW — Chechnya’s strongman leader has harshly denounced
claims that his southern Russian republic has tortured and even
killed gay men, denying that there even are any homosexual men
in his region.
Kremlin-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has faced wide
international criticism since a Russian newspaper reported this
spring that his security forces had detained some 100 gay men,
torturing or killing some of them.
“This is nonsense. We don’t have those kinds of people here. We
don’t have any gays. If there are any, take them to Canada,”
Kadyrov says in an interview with HBO Real Sports cable
television show. HBO released excerpts of the June 30 interview
on Friday.
Kadyrov also called those making the allegations “devils.”
“God damn them for what they are accusing us of,” he said.
Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia, was
devastated by two wars between separatists and Russian forces in
the past quarter-century. Kadyrov, a former rebel who switched
his loyalties to Moscow, has been the dominant figure there
since the 2004 assassination of his president father, Akhmad
Kadyrov.
Kadyrov’s security forces have been widely accused of extensive
human-rights abuses including abductions and killings in
Chechnya. A former officer of his security forces has been
convicted of the 2015 assassination of Russian opposition leader
Boris Nemtsov.
He has strongly promoted Chechnya’s Islamic culture, including
opening what is claimed to be Europe’s largest mosque in the
capital, Grozny. An avid boxer, he has promoted mixed martial
arts and other fighting sports in the republic. HBO says its
show, which airs on Tuesday, examines Kadyrov’s sports
initiatives.
In the interview excerpts, Kadyrov claimed the United States “is
conducting an anti-Russian policy against the country’s
leadership” but then dismisses the country.
“America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it
as an enemy of Russia. We have a strong government and are a
nuclear state. Even if our government were completely destroyed,
our nuclear missiles would be automatically deployed,” he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/chechen-leader- invokes-damnation-for-gay-persecution-claims/2017/07/15/8e38fe2a- 6963-11e7-94ab-5b1f0ff459df_story.html?utm_term=.3b070cf64a00
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Homophobia - Illogical definition coined by a Latin deficient
illiterate liberal.
More correctly, a sexually confused male practicing
homosexuality after first having sex with his own birth mother,
then with a father or brother. Now fearful to engage in the
correct sexual orientation associated with his naturally born
gender.
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