Posted on 09/20/2015 11:28:19 AM PDT by Theoria
In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.
“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”
Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally “boy play,” and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records.
The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militia to help hold territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages — and doing little when they began abusing children.
“The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,” said Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain who beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave.
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Rape culture. It’s news to the NYet Times that it isn’t just women and girls who get raped around the world.
The UN "peacekeepers" do this too and our new pro-gay military is sure to do it as well.
I don’t watch tv much these days but since a move last December, I wired up an old tube set that sat unplugged for 5 years. Last night on PBS2 (antenna) I saw some wide eyed tourist gal touring India and nodding as her guide talked about women jumping into a fire at someone’s funeral.
#AllCulturesAreEqualExceptTheSoVeryAren’t
Our corporations are run by the same sorts of sodomites.
Time was having a sex dungeon in your home meant you were a misanthropic sadist. Now, it means you are a VP exec at Microsoft who openly boasts of his sexual kinks in non-pornographic periodicals.
This isn’t play stuff - the kids are raped and mothers beat up for objecting. It’s really ugly stuff.
there we have it!
this is a NEW LOW...
this goes beyond stupid and wrong headed
this is clearly WAY Beyond the Pale
Look at the sex rings in the upper reaches of government and business in England (that has bleed over into America and may even involved Mr. Clinton).
I agree it isn’t small stuff but it is business as usual in Hollywood. Child actors kill themselves with drug abuse as they grow up because of it.
Who the he!# gave the orders to remain silent to the command? It must have come from very high up.
The Rape of the Afghan Boys
by Kelley B. Vlahos, April 13, 2010
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We talk about the possibility of losing the war in Afghanistan, but what if we lose our soul in Afghanistan?
Indirectly, Frontline will be asking that very question on April 20 with an underground report on the resurgence of bacha bazi or “boy play” among the wealthiest and most powerful men in northern Afghanistan. It’s the pustule threatening to burst all over the righteousness of our humanitarian effort there, and just the tip of the sick fact of how poor Afghan children are systematically used, abused, and tossed away by the ruling elite and even Afghan soldiers living, training, and fighting alongside our own.
Bacha bazi is an old Afghan tradition of taking young boys, dressing them up like girls, and making them perform for older men in tea rooms, weddings, and other private venues. The boys are “owned” by single or married men who trade or keep the boys as concubines. According to reports, the boys’ ages range from eight to 19, when they “age out” of the practice and are released.
“The bacha dancers are often abused children whose families have rejected them,” said the Guardian’s Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who wrote about the practice in September. He described one boy who was sexually assaulted by a mechanic in his town. The boy’s family blamed him and turned him out. He was forced to live with the man who attacked him. “Now I am with someone else, and he taught me how to dance,” the boy, now 16 years old, said.
Other reports describe bacha bazi as an increasingly lucrative business, in which the boy slaves are seen as important status symbols of the elite. “Everyone tries to have the best, most handsome, and good-looking boy,” a former mujahedin commander told Reuters back in 2007.
A 42-year-old landowner in Baghlan province named Enayatullah told Reuters, “I was married to a woman 20 years ago, she left me because of my boy. … I was playing with my boy every night and was away from home, eventually my wife decided to leave me. I am happy with my decision because I am used to sleeping and entertaining with my young boy.”
The boys, who often know no other life but as chattel, call the men “my lord.” Attempting escape could result in severe physical punishment, or even death. The family of a dead 15-year-old boy told Frontline that a policeman was eventually thrown in jail in connection with his murder. But they believed the boy’s former owner, a wealthy drug baron whom he was escaping, bribed local officials to set the policeman free after only “a few months” of jail time.
“If only these people were punished, this kind of thing wouldn’t happen,” the boy’s mother said. “Whoever commits these crimes doesn’t get punished. Power is power.”
I remember the first time I ever heard of bacha bazi. A soldier friend of mine who had been in Kabul told me of a disconcerting evening when he stumbled into a tea room in which a group of well-dressed Afghan men were gathering. His Afghan interpreter yanked him by the arm and out of the place, warning of danger. That was bacha bazi, he explained, in which young boys are forced to dance for men. He had better move on and forget.
He moved on, but he never forgot. Like me, my friend had grown up in a working class New England town, and these were horrors that men were beaten and even killed for in prison. We call it pedophilia, and most here would say is worth an eternity of damnation for its perpetrators, not a high social rank and adulation among the town’s elite.
“It’s gotten limited attention,” admitted Rachel Reid of Human Rights Watch. “There’s been some Afghan investigative journalists who have tackled it, though in areas where the perpetrators are also local ‘commanders’ whether official or unofficial, there will always be fear of reprisals.”
Approaching the issue as Americans we are flummoxed, as if it occurs on another planet. Reprisals for exposing the sexual abuse of children? The Catholic Church spent more than a half-century hiding its abusive priests because it feared that reprisals from the outside might destroy the institution. Here, we have authority figures – former commanders and warlords – flaunting their dancing slave boys, practically daring interference from outside.
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/04/12/a-deal-with-the-devil/
Ecclesiastes 3:17:
"I said to myself, "God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.""
The LORD will hold accountable all who are complicit in these heinous barbaric acts. If not on earth, at judgment.
And we in the good ol’ US of A allow babies to be ripped apart. Evil is every where.
The Ancient Romans held “wives for babies, slaves and prostitutes for pleasure.”
The old “seek my own pleasure, regardless of whom it hurts” lie rears itself in every culture.
Gibbon didn’t call it “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” for nothing.
Nowadays, though, they blame lead pipe poisoning for the Romans’ going whackadoodle.
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