The documentary film on HBO is filled with real-life tension
Welcome to Chechnya is a documentary film about the continuing anti-LGBTQ purge in the Russian republic of Chechnya.There are many program and specials airing in this period to acknowledge Pride month. Regrettably, the one that is essential, a must-see, is harrowing in what it depicts and hair-raising in the tension-filled methods with which it was made. It serves as a reminder, mind you, of why pride matters in Canada.
There are two strands to the doc. First, it is about what is a social-cleansing campaign of terror that’s tacitly backed by Chechnya’s head of state Ramzan Kadyrov. The man, with the full support of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has denied that any gay people exist in Chechnya and says, if there happened to be any, he would want to get rid of them.
The systemic hatred reached a new level in 2017 when a suspect in a drug-running case was found to have gay images on his phone and was tortured to force him to reveal his gay friends and acquaintances. It is now routine for suspected men and women to have their phones searched or submit to torture. Sometimes the beatings and torture are captured on phones or surveillance cameras, and the footage of those homophobic attacks obtained by David France are horrific to watch.
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