“Chechens = Muslims”
Yes, Chechens = Muslims want FREEDOM as well.
“Enemy of my enemy is a friend”
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov uses brutality to keep the populace of Chechnya in line: abduction, torture and murder are his method. As Muslims many countries limit the number of Chechnyan citizens are still denied asylum even if they have been tortured or had a family member “disappear.”
The former fighters who left Chechnya after the Russia ‘ground’ the Chechen people into dust [estimated 150,000 to 200,00 were killed by the same carpet bombing that Ukraine are being subjected to] are still considered dangerous to the Chechen state after 20 years. Many of the opposition leaders who fled Chechnya are still being hunted by Kadyrov and killed.
Kadyrov and his brutal regime are very much like Putin and his regime who hunts down and kills defectors as in the cases of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei and Yulia Skripal (father and daughter) who were all poisoned with a nerve agent while residing in Great Britain.
Link to this article entitled: “We can find you anywhere’: the Chechen death squads stalking Europe”: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/21/chechnya-death-squads-europe-ramzan-kadyrov.
The left wing Guardian? Really.