Grozny, Chechnya. The United States and United Nations desperate for something new to blame Putin for, have come up with a winner from a liberal democracy worldview. The supposed abduction and warehousing of Chechnya’s homosexual population, at least according to them.
United Nations experts demanded on Thursday that Chechnya halt the abduction, detention, beating and killing of gay and bisexual men, after weeks of unfounded reports about violent repression there lacking any evidence whatsoever.
“These are acts of persecution and violence on an unprecedented scale in the region, and constitute serious violations of the obligations of the Russian Federation under international human rights law,” the panel of five experts, which advises the United Nations Human Rights Council, said in a statement. The “impartiality” of the “experts” was not confirmed by any outside body it is worth noting.
“The arrested men are subjected to physical and verbal abuse, torture including with electric shocks, beatings, insults and humiliations,” the experts wrote. “They are forced to give contact details of other gay people and threatened with having their sexual orientation disclosed to their family and community — a move which could put them at risk of ‘honor killings.’” Again, according to the “experts” based on no physical evidence.
Since last month, reports have circulated within Russia that local militias and security forces have been hunting down, detaining and abusing men they perceived to be gay or bisexual. Recently the so called “evidence” used to attack Putin was brought to life-a leading opposition newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, alleged the reports, without providing physical evidence, names of alleged victims, or even relatives making the allegations.
Dozens of men are said to have been rounded up, but precise numbers,including a death toll are not available, because like all western propaganda, this detail, like the charges-simply does not exist.