Twenty-six men have been systematically murdered as part of Chechnya’s antigay purge, according to the Russian newspaper that originally broke the story.
Over the last several months, horrific reports have been pouring out of the Russian republic since Novaya Gazeta first alleged that 100 gay and bisexual men have been detained so far.
Related: New short film demonstrates the horrors gay men face in Chechnya
The newspaper article claims one of the victims was even a member of Russia’s National Guard, the Rosgvardia — a report they’re categorically denying.
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In a statement, they wrote that “there have been no incidents where National Guard servicemen would be killed in the North Caucasian district according to the pre-investigation check.”
Earlier, Novaya Gazeta reported they were “aware of six secret prisons, illegally (without due process) containing hundreds of detained citizens, including those suspected of homosexual orientation.”
Meanwhile, reports claim Lithuania is welcoming gay men trying to escape the purge. Two men have reportedly been granted Visas, and Linas Linkevicius is urging other countries to do the same.
“Today is zero-tolerance day against hatred, fear, discrimination of all forms of sexuality,” he wrote on Twitter. “Denying reality is not an option | #IDAHOT2017”.
Unsurprisingly, President Donald Trump is refusing to grant visas to people trying to escape the country.
Related: Chechnya authorities to parents: “Kill your gay sons or we will”
Talknig to Buzzfeed, a spokesperson for Russia LGBT Network said they’re having “difficulty” acquiring visas that would let men escape this terrible fate.
“We were informed that the US is not going to issue visas for people from Chechnya,” the spokesperson said.
In turn, the U.S. State Department wouldn’t comment on these claims, issuing this party line instead:
“As visa records are confidential under U.S. law, we are unable to discuss individual cases.”
DCguy
Not surprised that Russia is denying the report that one of their National Guardsmen has been murdered.
This leader is Putin’s boy and he is using Russia’s anti-lgbt law to do this. Watch for this newspaper to be shut down or it’s staff to be arrested soon.
Ok now, Mo Bro and all his other screenames can come on and talk about how we should ignore all of the anti-lgbt people here in American because this Chechyn leader is Muslim, so that means the right wing Christians over here who want to kill us should be ignored.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Not surprising you are denying muslims are doing all the killing and most muslims support it either. After all Chechnya is 95% sunni muslim and you don’t hear one complaint coming from them or you about the murders. You are just making excuses for the barbaric cult doing it.
1EqualityUSA
You do not hear complaints because oppression silences masses.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
The masses aren’t silent during the hangings, cannings, and people being thrown off roofs. They cheer.
1EqualityUSA
Maybe the Grand Wizard should change the name of his behemoth to Capucha Blanca.
DCguy
@ IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Actually I didn’t deny anything, what I did was predict exactly what you would try to do. Here in the U.S. it is the right wing Christians that are attacking LGBTs. The fact that you want to protect them shows that you are merely an anti-lgbt troll who is only on here to protect bigots.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Was it a right wing christian here in America that gunned down 49 gays a Pulse?
Hussain-TheCanadian
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou – You have pictures and possibly a video of Chechen Muslims cheering the death of gay men?
You obviously don’t know anything about the oppression Chechens overall are going through – You can Youtube multiple documentaries on the subject, but maybe for you, ignorance is a bliss.
@DCguy – Unfortunately the journalist who broke the story is in hiding (this was covered by Aljazeera today)
Xzamilloh
@DCguy
You have nothing to provide to the discussion. Nothing. If that is your go-to, then you might as well come out and say that you don’t give a crap about the Chechen gay men being murdered over there, because you’d rather virtue signal for a backwards religion than admit that for all for the atrocities going on worldwide, Islam seems to be an overwhelming factor. Right wing Christians who want to kill us… name them. What power do they have to make this happen? What Christians are killing us at the same rate as Muslims, and where are the other Christians refusing to acknowledge a problem within its ranks? Because for all the nonsense the Westboro inbreeds and fundies like Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz and his crazy nutjob father pastor, NO ONE has been murdered for being gay by our government.
That you would even attempt such a childish and asinine equivalency to what is going on in Chechnya is abhorrent and precisely why I no longer identify as a liberal… just left leaning. Christianity is NOT the litmus test for Islam. With an approaching 2 billion followers, the ideology can stand or fall on its own merits, or lack thereof, not by how comparably worse it is to Christianity, the major religion in the west, and yet, no mass murders of LGBT people. I guess you think it’s a good thing Trump denied those men visas… after all, they’d just get killed by our Christians here, right?? Disgusting.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@ Xzamilloh – Oh Queen spare me, as if you have anything to add to this discussion – Much like your militant atheists ilk, you go to is “lets bash Islam” – Who cares about anything else, but “we think Islam is uniquely evil”, then again, it fits your decisive ideology to divide people and quantify them – You want a solution that results in more bombs being dropped, this time, in our name as gay people.
No thanks – Maybe you should ask your thieving politicians why do they support oppression in the Muslim world, prop up Wahabi/Salafi extremism, or maybe you should just stick to your shtick of bashing Islam, its probably simpler for your brain to digest than looking at complex geopolitical reasons, especially reasons that indite your government and its military.
Xzamilloh
Still waiting for those names, DCguy… where are the right wing Christians that are lobbying to kill us and where do we go for protection from them since it’s inevitable that we will be killed?
Hussain-TheCanadian
@Xzamilloh – Oh boo, I didn’t realize that there is a line of American Muslims waiting to murder your behind – As for the Christian Taliban, they don’t want to murder you just yet, just oppress you and take your rights away first, if that doesn’t cure you, they’ll move on to something worse, what ever is politically expedient, much like what is happening in Chechnya or Uganda.
Maybe it didn’t cross your mind that we are not being murdered because of being gay, could it be that oppressive governments like to scapegoat others to cover their failings?
You know, for an atheist, you sure can’t think beyond your hatred.
Xzamilloh
Hussain, I have long since written you off as nothing more than an radical apologist, so there’s a reason I don’t respond to you. But since you felt the need to dishonestly attribute words to me, please find where I said anything about American Muslims lining up to murder me… and since you can’t edit comments on here, it’ll be easy for you to find where I said that. And now, back to ignoring you.
DCguy… I’m seriously not trying to badger you, but you make these assertions, and it is intellectually honest of you to back them up with evidence. Where is the Christian equivalent to the terror happening to LGBT individuals — namely gay men and trans women — in Muslim countries? Uganda? Nigeria? Because those are what you call the exception, not the standard. That I even have to defend modern day Christianity is a travesty in itself and indicative of how far down the rabbit hole we have gone on the left.
ChrisK
Have you heard of Pastor Kevin Swanson who wants a death penalty for gay men?
Xzamilloh
Kevin Swanson… that inbred imbecile that was cheering on the Paris attacks and the Orlando massacre? He’s a prime example of what Christianity would look like had it not gone through a radical reformation from violent oppressive gobbledygook to the now wishy washy Jesus-is-love gobbledygook that most modern day Christians believe, but really don’t because half of them don’t even know what’s in that contradicting compilation of Aesop fables and hogwash called the bible. We need more Muslim reformers like Maajid Nawaz (Yes, Zaddy… jihad muh butt!!).. more ex-Muslims speaking out, but we don’t have many speaking out because they are fearful of the consequences and many on the left join right in with those that wish to suppress them by calling them Islamophobic and racist, words that carry little weight in the wave of SJW call-em-nazis-and-bigots movement.
DCguy
@ IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Was it a right wing christian here in America that gunned down 49 gays a Pulse?
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No, it was a right wing Christian who passed laws saying LGBTs couldn’t enter into contracts with each other, couldn’t open business together, outlawed their relationships, allowed them to be fired from their jobs.
So nice try, attempting to pretend that right wing Christians don’t completely support attacks on lgbts.
1EqualityUSA
Ask, “Who is next?”
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Anyone living in a muslim country or region of a country.
1EqualityUSA
You do not know anyone who is of this faith, do you? Zero.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
I know them by their deeds, by their silence and by their open approval oppression and murder of gays all over the world, including in this country.
1EqualityUSA
I thought so. “Them.” “Their.” “The” other.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Do you know anyone in the Klan personally?
1EqualityUSA
One group is spiritual and has the capacity love or respect others. I know this, as some of the warmest, most genuine hugs I’ve ever received were from Muslims. To extrapolate the behavior of extremists onto the entire community is unfair. The Klan is concerned with superficial human physicality, skin color, molecules, and atoms. The body, merely a diode for spiritual impetus, is a foolish form upon which to heap hate and disdain.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Muslims can’t even manage to stop killing one another for a minute unless they have a dictator to keep them in line. And replace muslim with christian in your statement to see just how ridiculous you sound.
1EqualityUSA
You are unenlightened. This will not change today.
MediaGuy
The war against terror is here at home. Dropping the MOAB on some dusty town isn’t gonna accomplish much. Deporting the psychopathic death cult back to the sh*itholes they came from. We need to assure our safety. Progressives want the borders open. And the roaches have walked right in. Thank G O D for President Trump. Let’s keep it moving with replacing the old liberal nutjobs on the supreme court. Let’s stiff sanctuary cities, overturn Roe v Wade, implement extreme draconian vetting, investigate Hillary Clinton and MAGA. It’s already happening, let’s pick up the pace. MAGA.
1EqualityUSA
What’s that. Over there, under the sun. Nothing new.
cabe
So overturning Roe -v- Wade and investigating Hillary is going to stop the murders of gay men in Chechnya? Seriously???
ChrisK
The only thing most of us will be thanking is his impeachment.
ChrisK
Nice new screen name Mo bro.
DCguy
How adorable, one of Mo Bros other screenames still on here to try to lie and give GOP bigots cover.
You said Thank God for Trump? Once again you have proven that you aren’t really lgbt, you are simply a troll on here to try to deflect from any topic that in any way matters.
Trump appointed PENCE, who is nortorious for being one of the most anti-lgbt politicians in the country. Trump stated that he would appoint judges to take away lgbt rights, and you are cheering him.
Again, you are simply an anti-lgbt Trump Troll on here to give the GOP cover for their bigotry, nothing more. Now go cash your check before the value of the Ruble falls.
MediaGuy
@ ChisK. That’ a great strategy keeping your sentences short so you don’t make any grammerical / sentence structure mistakes. You remember, those pesky things that prove you are illiterate and make your posts absolutely unreadable. And, you’re using sinple two or three syllable words so you can sound them out as you go and thereby decrease your chance of a spelling mistake. You might even gradgeeate to the third grade if you keep this up. Wow, you’re getting it.
Tête Carrée
Sinple isn’t in my dictionary. Could you explain it to me professor?
Neonegro
Who cares…it’s muslims killing muslims.
Maybe the gays here should do like isis followers and join the battle against Russia.
Ooops, they are gays…..they do not know how to fight.
DCguy
If you’re going to come on here as an anti-lgbt Troll, you should be more careful about exposing that you aren’t LGBT.
You used “They” instead of “we”.
You literally just exposed that you and all of MO Bro’s other screenames are just right wing anti-lgbt bigots coming in here to troll an lgbt site.
You are as terrible at keeping secrets as your hero Trump.
Neonegro
No DCguy, we are just NOT your type of Gays.
You are the type society hates.
MediaGuy
DCGuy is an old time gay guy left over from the 70’s. He thinks every gay should wear “daisy dukes” and sing YMCA in a boa. That sh*it was a long time ago, grandpa. I’m not a clone of MoBro, but I understand that you want there to be just one conservative guy, not a bunch of us. Your silly progressive politics are dying off and gay men are getting the idea that to survive we have to fight this enemy. And, just for the record, I am a cuz guzzling, azz licking dick sucking kinda guy, and not an anti-LGBT troll. I’m not MoBro. I’m a card crrying fa*g.
Tête Carrée
You sure sound like you hate gays.
Mandrake
Why would the gay refuges from Chechnya need to come here? Have we forgotten that both Boston bombers were from Chechnya? I think it’s a smart move not to accept them. They’re are several other European nations that are closer and able to vet them.
Tête Carrée
I doubt that they were gay. I really don’t think gay Muslims are a threat here.