Those Wacky Heterosexuals

Russia Loves Killer Het Xenophobes And Neo-Nazis

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Moscow (AsiaNews) – According to the Russian Interior Ministry, 38 heterosexual attacks against foreigners and people of color have taken place this year during April and May, resulting in 17 deaths.

Human rights groups say the real number is much higher and complain nothing has been done to stem the tide of xenophobia sweeping the Russian Federation partly because of the complicity of the police and political authorities.

Russian authorities arrested 53 people in the last two months for violent and deadly attacks that were racially motivated, the ministry announced.

Gennady Ivanov, head of the ministry’s criminal investigations department, said that the 53 suspects include members of 11 separate gangs responsible for 38 violent attacks — including 17 murders — against foreigners in Moscow, St. Petersburg and their respective regions.

All the victims were non-Slavs, including 19 citizens of either China or former Soviet republics.

From January through March in all four regions the Ministry recorded 101 attacks against foreigners, including 31 murders.

Organizations that track heterosexuals perpetrating bias crimes have noted a significant spike in racist attacks this year, and their numbers are very different from those of the government.