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Over the years, he has come under criticism from international organisations for a wide array of human rights abuses under his watch, with Human Rights Watch calling the forced disappearances and [[torture]] so widespread they constituted [[crimes against humanity]]. During his tenure, he has advocated to restrict the public lives of women, and led a campaign of mass detention for those who are suspected to have engaged in homosexual behavior, allegedly operating a system of [[Concentration Camp|concentration camps]] specifically created to intern gay and bisexual men.
Over the years, he has come under criticism from international organisations for a wide array of human rights abuses under his watch, with Human Rights Watch calling the forced disappearances and [[torture]] so widespread they constituted [[crimes against humanity]]. During his tenure, he has advocated to restrict the public lives of women, and led a campaign of mass detention for those who are suspected to have engaged in homosexual behavior, allegedly operating a system of [[Concentration Camp|concentration camps]] specifically created to intern gay and bisexual men.
==Biography==
==Biography==
Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov was born on 5 October 1976, the son of Akhmad Kadyrov and his wife Aimani, two Chechen Muslims. Kadyrov was born in Tsentaroy in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR of the Soviet Union, and he became the personal driver for his father while he was fighting as an anti-Russian mufti during the First Chechen War in the 1990s.  
Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov was born on 5 October 1976, the son of [[Akhmad Kadyrov]] and his wife Aimani, two Chechen Muslims. Kadyrov was born in Tsentaroy in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR of the Soviet Union, and he became the personal driver for his father while he was fighting as an anti-Russian mufti during the First Chechen War in the 1990s.  


His father later was elected president of Chechnya in a rigged election and he was killed in 2004 in a [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bombing]]. Ramzan, as his son, was highly-influential. Ramzan became the president of Chechnya in 2007 despite rivalries with warlords Sulim Yamadayev and Said-Magomed Kakiev and previous president Alu Alkhanov. Kadyrov fought against the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) rebels in the Second Chechen War's aftermath conflicts, but he also sent troops of the Vostok Battalion to fight in the [[War in Donbass]] in 2014.
His father later was elected president of Chechnya in a rigged election and he was killed in 2004 in a [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bombing]]. Ramzan, as his son, was highly-influential. Ramzan became the president of Chechnya in 2007 despite rivalries with warlords Sulim Yamadayev and Said-Magomed Kakiev and previous president Alu Alkhanov. Kadyrov fought against the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) rebels in the Second Chechen War's aftermath conflicts, but he also sent troops of the Vostok Battalion to fight in the [[War in Donbass]] in 2014.


Kadyrov did not support the government of [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] for the treatment received by the Rohingya minority under his administration.  
Kadyrov did not support the government of [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] for the treatment received by the Rohingya minority under his administration.
 


==Human rights violations==
==Human rights violations==