GAY MEN ARE BEING KILLED
Gay and Bisexual men across Chechnya are being abducted, put into camps, tortured and killed en masse and no one is talking about it. Gay guys as young as 16 are being kidnapped and forced into modern day concentration camps and electrocuted, humiliated and finally murdered. From one survivor, Adam: “He called me, and in a very calm and normal voice suggested meeting. I’ve known him for a long time, so I didn’t suspect a thing,” said Adam. But when he arrived at the arranged meeting place, he realised it was a set up. There were six people waiting for him, some of them in uniform, and they shouted that they knew he was gay. At first, Adam denied it, but when it became clear the men had read messages he had sent to others, he admitted he was indeed gay. He was put in the back of a van and taken to the detention facility, where the men were locked in a room and slept on concrete floors. “They woke us up at 5am and let us sleep at 1am. Different people would come in and take turns to beat us. Sometimes they brought in other prisoners, who were told we were gay and were also ordered to beat us. “ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/13/they-called-us-animals-chechens-prison-beatings-electric-shocks-anti-gay-purge?CMP=soc_567
Others have their families brought in and forced to kill them:
““They tell the parents to kill their child,” he says. “They say: Either you do it or we will’. They call it ‘cleaning your honour with blood.”He continues: “They tortured a man for two weeks. They summoned his parents and his brothers who all came. They said to them ‘your son is a homosexual, sort it out or we’ll do it ourselves’.“They replied: ‘It’s our family; we’ll do it’.“The family took him and killed him in the forest. They buried him there. They didn’t even give him a funeral.” http://attitude.co.uk/chechen-authorities-summoning-parents-to-prison-camps-to-kill-their-gay-sons/
THIS IS HAPPENING. WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT IT?! WHY ARENT MORE PEOPLE ANGRY?! WHY ISNT THIS ALL OVER TUMBLR?! WHY ARENT THERE PROTESTS?! WHY ARE DOES THE WORLD STOP BECAUSE AN ELDERLY ARISTOCRAT STOPPED OPENING HOSPITALS BUT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT GAYS BEING SLAUGHTERED.
I’ve found some legitimate ways to help that don’t include an angry email to Putin on change.org. One is to go through the major energy companies that hold a fair amount of political power, Exxon, Shell etc. http://iglhrc.nonprofitsoapbox.com/demand-stop-to-detentions-in-chechnya
Another is to directly donate to the “Russian LGBT Network”, which is a volunteer organisation aimed at helping LGBT Russians. For this specific crises, this includes a 24 hour emergency hotline for LGBT Chechens whose main aim is getting people out of the country. “The Russian LGBT Network has opened a refuge center in Moscow for Chechen gays fleeing persecution in Chechnya. According to the organization, about 25 people have already left the republic and another 30, who are assisted by LGBT network staff, are planning to leave Chechnya in the near future. Four to five people apply to leave every day on a twenty-four-hour hotline. The organization has security protocols that help to conceal the refugees’ identities. The LGBT Network hopes to send refugees to other countries where they will be granted asylum; network employees are involved in negotiations with the embassies of Western countries.”https://www.lgbtnet.org/en/endonate
here’s a list of ways if you want to share. http://www.upworthy.com/trumps-been-silent-putins-shrugged-…
Seriously?! No one is even going to reblog this?! For a so called social justice website, you all care so much about calling out homophobia and screaming how you’re allies but no ones going to reblog links to help save living people?! I’ve seen more fucking gay selfies than I have posts about this, are western gays so self absorbed that we don’t care what happens beyond our borders or have we just decided that we’re good now the fucking US has marriage? Are we so privileged now that we don’t care about our dying brothers?! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.
