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Chechyna has opened the first concentration camp for homosexuals
since Hitler, where campaigners say gay men are being tortured
with electric shocks and beaten to death.

It comes after it was claimed 100 gay men had been detained and
three killed in Chechnya last week.

A report by Novoya Gazeta said authorities had set up several
camps where homosexuals are killed or forced to promise to leave
the republic.

One of the camps is reportedly at the former military
headquarters in the town of Argun.

Svetlana Zakharova, from the Russian LGBT Network, told
MailOnline: 'Gay people have been detained and rounded up and we
are working to evacuate people from the camps and some have now
left the region.

'Those who have escaped said they are detained in the same room
and people are kept altogether, around 30 or 40. They are
tortured with electric currents and heavily beaten, sometimes to
death.'

One of those who escaped told Novoya Gazeta that prisoners were
beaten to force them to reveal other members of the gay
community.

Another prisoner who fled said that before being incarcerated in
one of the camps, he had been forced to pay bribes to Chechen
police of thousands of rubles every month in order to survive.

Now the regime had taken another step against gays by creating
these camps, the survivor said.

Alexander Artemyev, from Amnesty International in Russia, told
MailOnline: 'We can only call on the Russian authorities to
investigate the allegations. Homosexuals in Chechyna are treated
very harshly and prosecuted daily and they are afraid to talk
about it.

'They either have to hide or leave the republic. We are keeping
in touch with the LGBT network that helps people in Russia to
find shelter. The problem is people there cannot talk about it
as it puts their lives and those they speak to, in danger. This
is the main issue we are facing in Russia and the main
challenge.'

Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, Russia project director for the
International Crisis Group, told MailOnline: 'The story is very
much developing...victims are escaping.'

Tanya Lokshina, from Human Rights Watch in Moscow, said: 'For
several weeks now, a brutal campaign against LGBT people has
been sweeping through Chechnya.

'These days, very few people in Chechnya dare speak to human
rights monitors or journalists even anonymously because the
climate of fear is overwhelming and people have been largely
intimidated into silence.

'Filing an official complaint against local security officials
is extremely dangerous, as retaliation by local authorities is
practically inevitable.

'It is difficult to overstate just how vulnerable LGBT people
are in Chechnya, where homophobia is intense and rampant. LGBT
people are in danger not only of persecution by the authorities
but also of falling victim to "honour killings" by their own
relatives for tarnishing family honour.'

Last week Novoya Gazeta said Chechen police had rounded up more
than 100 men suspected of being gay and killed three.

It claimed that among those detained were well-known local
television personalities and religious figures.

President Razman Kadyrov, who is a key ally of Vladimir Putin,
allegedly ordered the clampdown, although officially his regime
denied the arrests claiming 'it is impossible to persecute those
who are not in the republic'.

Kadyrov, who introduced Islamic rule in the Muslim-majority
region, has been accused of earlier human rights violations.

He described the allegations as 'absolute lies and
disinformation'.

Kadyrov's spokesman Alvi Karimov told the Interfax News Agency:
'You cannot arrest or repress people who just don't exist in the
republic.

'If such people existed in Chechnya, law enforcement would not
have to worry about them, as their own relatives would have sent
them to where they could never return.'

Chechen society is strictly conservative, meaning that unlike
other cases where relatives or rights activists may put pressure
on authorities when a homosexual relative disappears, those
suspected are likely to be disowned by their own families.

According to the New York Times, gay men on the region have been
deleting their social media profiles after it was reported
authorities tried to lure gay men into dates and arrested them.

The reports from Russia claim those arrested range from just 15
to 50.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4397118/Chechnya-opens- concentration-camp-homosexuals.html

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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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