Thousands of Chechens gathered on Monday in the center of Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechen Republic, to protest against the anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar, Sputnik reports.
According to the RBC broadcaster, the rally in Chechnya kicked off at 08:00 GMT near the Heart of Chechnya mosque, which is the biggest mosque in the republic.
Rally participants called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to make efforts aimed at stopping anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar.
Russia’s Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov compared the practices of soldiers and monks in Myanmar as for the Muslims of the Rohingya ethnic group with the practices of the Nazis in the concentration camps.
