{"id":90631,"date":"2017-05-01T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=90631"},"modified":"2017-04-14T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:49:08","slug":"european-country-opens-first-concentration-camps-for-gay-people-since-hitler-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/05\/european-country-opens-first-concentration-camps-for-gay-people-since-hitler-video\/","title":{"rendered":"European Country Opens First Concentration Camps for Gay People since Hitler [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_90632\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/gay-concentration-camp-chechnya-eu.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90632\" class=\"wp-image-90632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/gay-concentration-camp-chechnya-eu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/gay-concentration-camp-chechnya-eu.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/gay-concentration-camp-chechnya-eu-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/gay-concentration-camp-chechnya-eu-768x469.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Featured image via Stop Homophobia<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>10 Apr 2017 &#8211; <\/em>A media investigation has found that 100 gay men were kidnapped and imprisoned in the world\u2019s first concentration camp for LGBT people since Nazi Germany. Three men were killed during the operation in Chechnya, in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The concentration camps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An investigative report by\u00a0<em>Novaya Gazeta<\/em>\u00a0states that Chechen authorities have set up several concentration camps for LGBT citizens. Human rights activists in Chechnya, a quasi-independent state on the border of Russia, have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/apr\/02\/chechen-police-rounded-up-100-gay-men-report-russian-newspaper-chechnya\" >echoed<\/a>\u00a0the allegations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Following an anti-gay campaign, Chechen police rounded up suspected LGBT people and imprisoned them in the camps.<\/li>\n<li>Three men were known to be killed during this process.<\/li>\n<li>At the camps, the LGBT people are ordered to leave the republic, or be killed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chechen authorities deny\u00a0the camps exist. But the denial from the nation\u2019s human rights council only served to raise further concerns. The council\u2019s Kheda Saratova <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/apr\/02\/chechen-police-rounded-up-100-gay-men-report-russian-newspaper-chechnya\" >told<\/a> Russian radio:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I haven\u2019t had a single request on this issue, but if I did, I wouldn\u2019t even consider it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In our Chechen society, any person who respects our traditions and culture will hunt down this kind of person without any help from authorities, and do everything to make sure that this kind of person does not exist in our society.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Artemyev of human rights group Amnesty International\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4397118\/Chechnya-opens-concentration-camp-homosexuals.html\" >says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We can only call on the Russian authorities to investigate the allegations. Homosexuals in Chechyna are treated very harshly and prosecuted daily and they are afraid to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">They either have to hide or leave the republic. We are keeping in touch with the LGBT network that helps people in Russia to find shelter. The problem is people there cannot talk about it as it puts their lives and those they speak to, in danger. This is the main issue we are facing in Russia and the main challenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The veracity of the allegations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The allegations were made by Russia\u2019s liberal <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/novgazenglish\/?fref=ts\" ><em>Novaya Gazeta<\/em><\/a>. The paper is known for its challenge of Russian premier Vladimir Putin. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/evgenylebedev.com\/biography\/\" >paper is owned<\/a> by Alexander Lebedev, father of Evegny Lebedev, who owns\u00a0UK media outlets <em>The Independent<\/em> and the <em>London Evening Standard<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Due to Russia\u2019s complex relationship with the Chechen Republic, a Kremlin-friendly source could be less reliable. <em>Novaya Gazeta<\/em> is not such a source.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is unlikely that LGBT Chechens will gain much support from a Russian state which recently passed a series of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2016\/01\/14\/dispatches-jail-time-being-gay-russia\" >homophobic laws<\/a>. And on 19 January, the Russian parliament held its\u00a0first reading of another. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2016\/01\/14\/dispatches-jail-time-being-gay-russia\" >bill<\/a> proposes jailing people for public displays of non-heterosexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>These abusive laws and camps echo the treatment of LGBT people by the Third Reich. In Nazi Germany, Jewish people were ordered to wear a yellow star. Disabled people were forced to wear black triangles. And LGBT people were ordered to wear a pink triangle. All groups were later forced into concentration and death camps. In 2017, history is repeating itself in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x-1uFsOXWhQ<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><strong><em>Get Involved!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><em>\u2013 Sign <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/actions\/stop-abducting-and-killing-gay-men-chechnya\" >Amnesty\u2019s petition<\/a> to stop the abduction and killing of gay men in Chechnya.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><em>\u2013 Learn more about the gay Holocaust at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stop-homophobia.com\/thegayholocaust.htm\" >Stop Homophobia<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><em>\u2013\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/get-involved\/contact-your-mp\/\" >Write to your MP<\/a> to make your voice heard on the matter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kerry-anne-Mendoza.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kerry-anne-Mendoza.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><em>Kerry-anne is Editor-in-Chief of<\/em> The Canary. <em>She is known for creating one of the UK\u2019s top independent political blogs (Scriptonite Daily), for authoring the best-seller <\/em>Austerity, <em>and for her Middle East reporting (notably Operation Protective Edge from Gaza through the Summer of 2014). Her passions are politics, economics and current affairs, which she examines with the basic question: \u201cHow do we build a world that works for everyone?\u201d She is based in Bristol, UK.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/2017\/04\/10\/european-country-opened-first-concentration-camps-gay-people-since-hitler-video\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 thecanary.co<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigative report by Novaya Gazeta has found that 100 gay men were kidnapped and imprisoned in the world\u2019s first concentration camp for LGBT people since Nazi Germany. Three men were killed during the operation in Chechnya, in Eastern Europe. . In Nazi Germany, Jewish people were ordered to wear a yellow star. Disabled people were forced to wear black triangles. And LGBT people were ordered to wear a pink triangle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexualities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}