Ramzan Kadyrov

Ramzan Kadyrov File:20201218 054824.jpg Full Name: Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov Origin: Tsentaroy, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Occupation: President of the Chechen Republic (2007 - present) Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic (2006 - 2007) Hobby: serve the Kremlin play with their cats Goals: Eliminate the LGBT population in Chechnya (ongoing). Maintain ties with Russia Help make Chechnya independent (formerly). Crimes: Human rights violations Crimes against humanity Oppression Homophobia Unlawful mass detention Mass murder Torture Genocide Type of Villain: Sadistic Corrupt Official

“	I officially declare that the time has come to an end when it was said that parents are not responsible for the actions of their sons or daughters. They will response in Chechnya! ... If a militant in Chechnya kills a police officer or any other person, the militant's family will be immediately expelled from Chechnya without the right to return, and the house will be demolished along with the foundation!	„
	~ Ramzan Kadyrov

Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov (Russian: Рамза́н Ахма́тович Кады́ров, chechen: КъадиргӀеран Ахьмад-Хьаьжин Рамзан, born October 5^th, 1976 - ) is the President of the Chechen Republic in the North Caucasus region of Russia and a former member of the Chechen independence movement.

He is the son of former Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in May 2004. In February 2007, Kadyrov replaced Alu Alkhanov as President, shortly after he had turned 30, which is the minimum age for the post. He was engaged in violent power struggles with Chechen government warlords Sulim Yamadayev and Said-Magomed Kakiyev for overall military authority, and with Alkhanov for political authority.

Ramzan Kadyrov is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He founded the Akhmat Fight Club and established an international annual freestyle wrestling tournament called the Ramzan Kadyrov & Adlan Varayev Cup. Since November 2015, he is a member of the Advisory Commission of the State Council of the Russian Federation. He has been described as a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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 camps specifically created to intern gay and bisexual men.

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.

His father later was elected president of Chechnya in a rigged election and he was killed in 2004 in a 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.

Human rights violations

Kadyrov has previously encouraged extrajudicial killings of homosexual men by family members as an alternative to law enforcement – in some cases, gay men in prison have been released early specifically to enable their murder by relatives.

In April 2017, international media reported that gay men in Chechnya were being arrested, detained and tortured as part of a region-wide pogrom. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on 5 May that he would personally ask the Russian Prosecutor General and Interior Ministry to help Kremlin rights ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova check the reported abuse. UK Deputy Foreign Secretary Sir Alan Duncan told the UK Parliament he had been informed of alleged plans to eliminate Chechnya's gay community by the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which started on 26 May 2017.

Chechnya has refused the reports, with its interior minister calling the allegations an "April Fools' joke". Kadyrov's spokesman Alvi Karimov rejected the allegations and described the report in the Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, as "absolute lies and disinformation", basing his refusal on the claim that "you cannot detain and persecute people who simply do not exist in the republic. If there were such people in Chechnya, the law-enforcement organs wouldn't need to have anything to do with them because their relatives would send them somewhere from which there is no returning." Vladimir Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also said that there had been no evidence found to support the allegations, adding that he had no reason to doubt Kadyrov's claims that no one under his rule has been persecuted for their sexual orientation.

In an interview with HBO's Real Sports aired on 18 July, Kadyrov said that, if there are any, Chechen gays should be moved to Canada, and claimed that pro-LGBT lobbyists are devils.