Chechnya president vows to eliminate all gay men by the end of May

Chechnya’s president has vowed to ‘eliminate’ all gay men by the end of May.

Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic, threatened to rid the area of homosexuality ‘by Ramadan’.

Ramadan, Islam’s holy month, begins on 26 May this year.

Speaking to Gay Star News, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson confirmed these claims.

The horrifying threat was revealed in Parliament when Sir Alan Duncan, Deputy Foreign Secretary and gay Conservative MP, took urgent questions on the Chechnya’s treatment of gay and bi men.

‘He [Kadyrov] has carried out other violent campaigns in the past, and this time he is directing his efforts at the LGBT community,’ Duncan said in parliament.

‘Sources have said that he wants the community eliminated by the start of Ramadan.’

Kadyrov reportedly made the chilling threats in local Russian language media.

In the last two weeks horrifying reports of gay men being held in concentration camps and being beaten, tortured, and killed have emerged. At least 100 have been detained and at least four men have been murdered.

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