#monument to zelimkhan

[alexxx-malev]

Russia. Chechen Republic. Kharachoy. Monument to Zelimkhan Харачой. Памятник Зелимхану Харачоевскому

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[maddyaddy]

Abrek

Everything is gone. Amidst blasted and black earth, I am on the run, like Zelimkhan. Only a single stone on the teip hearth.

My partner is my AK; It is my truest friend. A lonely way. But my homeland, I will defend. We fight to the fullest, Wild eyes and loud cries. Monuments of spent bullets. When we at last die. “He howls because there is no death for him”, And so do I Under the mountains and a Vainakh sky so dim

[sodomighty]

Zelimkhan Bakaev was "reportedly arrested as part of Chechnya’s anti-gay crackdown" and "murdered shortly after being detained," according to a source who talked to NewNowNext. I keep googling his name to see if there have been any updates since that story last week, or any more sources coming forward to confirm this horrifying news, but there haven't been. A source close to activists in the region now tells NewNowNext Bakaev, 26, was tortured to death. “He arrived in Grozny and was picked up by police within three hours,” they claimed. “Within ten hours he was murdered.” Chechnya has said that gay people do not exist. When reports began surfacing last spring that Chechnya had set up concentration camps for gay people, a state official called the reports "absolute lies and disinformation," explaining: "You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic." There is a chilling picture here of Bakaev posing with Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov. An official in Kadyrov's regime said about gay people recently: "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." (at Stonewall National Monument - Gardens in Christopher Park)