# The Chechen government recognizes gays **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 3, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-chechen-government-recognizes-gays/783652 "2017-04-03T13:33:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-chechen-government-recognizes-gays/783652/1 "2017-04-03T13:33:41Z")
[That is it recognizes them, kidnaps them and kills them.](https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/the-chechen-government-is-reportedly-kidnapping-and) > [@](#): > > Local authorities in Chechnya are behind the disappearance of more than 100 gay men from across the Muslim-majority republic, a Russian newspaper reported on Saturday. > > The revelation came from Novaya Gazeta, a privately owned newspaper known for its investigations. A broad range of men have been taken into custody, according to the newspaper, including two local television personalities. At least three have been killed, the paper claimed, though it was withholding the names of the victims. > [@](#): > > According to Noveya Gazeta, the Chechen police regard the operation as “preventive mopping up” of undesirable figures. > > “You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic,” Kadyrov spokesman Alvi Karimov told Interfax. “If there were such people in Chechnya, the law-enforcement organs wouldn’t need to have anything to do with them because their relatives would send them somewhere from which there is no returning.” > > Karimov was alluding to the idea that in the deeply conservative republic, relatives of some of the gay men arrested would perform an “honor killing” to rid themselves of their shame. Novaya Gazeta speculated that some of the gay men detained were released not for lack of evidence, but on the hope that their families would do just that. There’s a photo of a the grinning Chechen leader Kadyrov with his dumb beard on the page and I have never felt more like punching someone in my life. This fucking madman rules Chechnya like a private fiefdom courtesy of Putin who is little better himself when it comes to the treatment of gays. It really sickens me that these barbarians can get away with treating a section of the population like dirt. And it is absolutely heartbreaking to imagine these young men finally being released by the authorities to their families only to be brutally murdered by the people they love. It’s the saddest story I’ve read in a long time and makes me ashamed to be of the same species as these fucking swine. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-chechen-government-recognizes-gays/783652/2 "2017-04-03T17:14:43Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > There’s a photo of a the grinning Chechen leader Kadyrov with his dumb beard … Well, that’s not what I was expecting… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-chechen-government-recognizes-gays/783652/3 "2017-04-03T18:00:45Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > There’s a photo of a the grinning Chechen leader Kadyrov with his dumb beard on the page and I have never felt more like punching someone in my life. This fucking madman rules Chechnya like a private fiefdom courtesy of Putin who is little better himself when it comes to the treatment of gays. I never thought I’d see the day when the president of a country that’s historically been at odds with, at times hostile to, Russia would end up being best pals with Vladimir Putin. Definitely never thought I’d see it _twice_… ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-chechen-government-recognizes-gays/783652/4 "2017-04-03T18:25:12Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I never thought I’d see the day when the president of a country that’s historically been at odds with, at times hostile to, Russia would end up being best pals with Vladimir Putin. > > Definitely never thought I’d see it _twice_… You do realize it was the Russians who installed him after his group switched sides over to the Russians in the Chechan independence war in return for power, yes? He is the direct creature of Russian intelligence services, indeed direct creature of Putin and has been since 2000. It is not news. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-chechen-government-recognizes-gays/783652/5 "2017-04-04T16:34:39Z")
What’s that wooshing sound?