Chechen parents allegedly ordered to kill gay kids
Image: Chechen leader Razman Kadyrov [centre]. Image: Twitter.
An escapee from the reported gay concentration camps in Chechnya says the police have told parents in the region to kill their gay children.
鈥淭hey tell the parents to kill their child,鈥� the survivor told news channel France 24.
鈥淭hey say, 鈥楨ither you do it, or we will.鈥� They call it 鈥榗leaning your honour with blood.鈥欌��
Emerging reports of more camps suggest at least six concentration camps in Chechnya are now holding gay and bi men.
鈥淲e鈥檝e always been persecuted, but never like this,鈥� said the survivor.
鈥淣ow they arrest everyone. They kill people, they do whatever they want.鈥�
A spokesperson for Russian president Vladimir Putin claims there is no evidence for the anti-gay concentration camps.
Sir Alan Duncan, British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, revealed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov wanted the elimination of gay men from the region by Ramadan.
鈥淗e has carried out other violent campaigns in the past, and this time he is directing his efforts at the LGBTI community,鈥� he said.
鈥淪uch comments, attitudes and actions are absolutely beyond contemptible.鈥�
So much hatred, where is the love?
There are supposedly spy satellites launched by many countries flying in low orbit around in the sky, couldn’t someone or some country zoom in and prove the camps exist? There seem to be enough escapees who could help pinpoint locations. It would be hard for Kadyrov or Putin to explain away filmed evidence.