BBC report shows violence targeting LGBT community in Russia

The BBC produced this report based on a Russian vigilante group that not only hunts down LGBT citizens, but posts the violence done to them via video. In one, a man is being forced to drink urine to "cure him" of being a homosexual. In another, a metal bucket is placed over the man's head and hit with what looks like a baseball bat and a police truncheon.

Attacks like this are being carried out across Russia by an ultra-nationalist group. It claims its objective is to name, shame and punish suspected pedophiles.

However, the aggressors in the videos seem to put all gays and lesbians in the same "category" as pedophiles.

In another online clip, a woman armed with a gun and dressed in camouflage jokes that she's "out on safari" hunting for paedophiles and gays. She starts shooting towards an imaginary "rainbow target".

The woman's name is Yekaterina, and she lives in St Petersburg, where she heads the local branch of the vigilante group "Occupy Paedophilia".

"Our priority is uncovering cases of paedophilia," Yekaterina explains to me. "But we're also against the promotion of homosexuality. And if - along the way - we encounter people of non-traditional sexual orientation, we can kill two birds with one stone."

Watch the report from BBC above. Very grim stuff.

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