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Pssst - Your 100% volunteer claim is wrong. https://us.dk/media/vsxfb4vt/factfindingmission_russia-recruitment-of-chechens.pdf https://us.dk/media/vsxfb4vt/fac
by esseph 1y ago
Pssst - Your 100% volunteer claim is wrong.
https://us.dk/media/vsxfb4vt/factfindingmission_russia-recruitment-of-chechens.pdf https://us.dk/media/vsxfb4vt/factfindingmission_russia-recru...
>The Chechens most at risk of being coercively recruited are critcs of the authorites, family
members of vocal critcs, drug and alcohol users as well as members of the LGBT community.
The Chechen authorites have used coercive recruitment to get rid of what they call the
undesirables. In general, any deviaton from the norms and rules of Kadyrov’s leadership could
be used to coercively recruit Chechens. In this regard, the Chechen authorites use forced
recruitment as a form of punishment in Chechnya. Although certain groups can be identfied as
being more at risk than others, there is also a high degree of unpredictability and arbitrariness
in the actons of Chechen authorites in regards to coercive recruitment.
And the ones who tried to hide:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/26/austria-deports-chechen-asylum-seekers-despite-risk-of-forced-mobilization-in-russia-a89210 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/26/austria-deports-ch...
- somenameforme 1y agoChechnya has its own laws on just about everything. It's ruled by Islamic Law such that homosexuality, alcohol consumption, and even pork consumption are illegal there. They also have their own laws and culture with regards to war and were even completely excluded from the partial mobilization and allowed to do their own thing, as usual. It's a negligible part of Russia (about 1% by population) and not representative of Russian law or norms.