Tolerating Bacha Bazi; Buggery and the Loss of American High Ground

The Conservative Coffee Corner, by Angela Gtaham West, Sep. 22, 2015:

‘Bacha Bazi literally means “playing with boys”.  It is a slang term term in Afghanistan for a wide variety of activities that will include pedophilia with specifically young boys. The perpetrator is commonly called Bacha Baz (meaning “pedophile” in Persian). It may include to some extent child pornography, sexual slavery and child prostitution in which prepubescent and adolescent boys are sold to wealthy or powerful men for entertainment and sexual activities.”  Wikipedia  “A ‘bacha bereesh’ is a boy without a beard, and in several circles a beardless boy is most desired by rich, powerful male patrons. Grown men become involved in ‘bacha bazi’— which literally translates into ‘boy-play’. This is a time-honored tradition, condemned by human rights activists and Muslim clerics, but it is seeing a revival in the north province of Afghanistan. It is by no means restricted to the north of Afghanistan only, but has virtually faded in the south, where the Taliban’s strict moral code act as a deterrent.”  Read more: http://ift.tt/1VdWdcj

The ‘bacha bereesh’ is usually between the ages of 14 to 18.  the age of 14 tends to be quite desirable for these “powerful” or wealthy men.  These young men are dressed in special women’s clothing, with bells tied to their feet, and paraded out to dance at parties and weddings.  Obviously women are prohibited from attending many functions.  In general, the practice of men dancing at parties is relatively common in Afghanistan.

Allah Daad, once a mujahedin commander in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, explains how the boys are enticed into the arrangement: “First we select boys in the village and later on we try to trick them into coming with us,” he said. “Some of them stay with us for money; they get a monthly allowance, and in return we can have them any time we want. They don’t stay with us all the time – they can do their own jobs and then just come to parties with us.”  Large halls provide the venues for the weekly parties where the boys’ owners, invite their friends to watch them dancing. Several different types of dances are popular, Daad says, and if the boy refuses to dance or performs badly, his master beats him with a long stick.

“We have to do that,” explains Daad. “We spend money on these boys, so they have to dance.”  Later into the night, once the dancing is over, the boys are frequently shared with close friends, for sexual favors. And by the end of the evening it is not at all uncommon for the boy to have a new owner, as the parties often provide the opportunity for buying and selling.Read more:

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Women are for making children, males are for “making fun”.  Many say they only want “boys”.“We know it is immoral and unIslamic, but how can we quit?” asks 35 year-old Chaman Gul. “We do not like women, we just want boys.”Read more:

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When the boys get older, depending upon the power they have gained from their “masters”, they then become owners of other poverty stricken little boys. An thus the cycle continues.  One young boy speaks of how when his father died, he began dancing for he powerful men when he was just 10 years old.  sometimes he was just paid the equivalent of 2 dollars per night and sometimes he was gang raped.  This was to provide the most meager food to his mother and family.

The Afghan government is unable and some say unwilling to tackle the problem.

So it is against the backdrop that  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.”http://ift.tt/1FVMIqZ

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. “But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did — that was something village elders voiced to me.”  The new American policy is to ignore and tolerate this “practice”.  The Army is trying to

forcibly retire Sgt. First Class Charles Martland

, a Special Forces member who joined Captain Quinn in beating up the commander.  The Army contends that they should “have looked the other way”.

Fighting the Taliban is what we are there for, forced buggery and pedophilia is “their business”.   Is it dangerous to report this abuse? Yes,  the father of Lance Corporal Buckley believes the policy of looking away from sexual abuse was a factor in his son’s death, and he has filed a lawsuit to press the Marine Corps for more information about it. Lance Corporal Buckley and two other Marines were killed in 2012 by one of a large entourage of boys living at their base with an Afghan police commander named Sarwar Jan.  Nothing happened to the boy and Sarwar Jan was promoted.

Here is the story of the soldier:One day in early September 2011 at their remote outpost, a young Afghan boy and his Afghan-Uzbek mother showed up at camp. The 12-year-old showed the Green Berets where his hands had been tied. A medic took him to a back room for an examination with an interpreter, who told them the boy had been raped by another commander by the name of Abdul Rahman.After learning of the meeting, Rahman allegedly beat the boy’s mother for reporting the crime. It was at this point, the Green Berets had had enough. Quinn and Martland went to confront Rahman.

“He confessed to the crime and laughed about it, and said it wasn’t a big deal. Even when we patiently explained how serious the charge was, he kept laughing,” Quinn said.

According to reports of the incident, Quinn and Martland shoved Abdul Rahman to the ground. It was the only way to get their point across, according to Quinn. “As a man, as a father of a young boy myself at the time, I felt obliged to step in to prevent further repeat occurrences,” Quinn said.

Rahman walked away bruised from getting shoved and thrown to the ground, but otherwise OK, according to teammates. But Rahman quickly reported the incident to another Army unit in a nearby village. The next day a U.S. Army helicopter landed and took Quinn and Martland away, ending their work in Kunduz Province.

For the next few weeks, both soldiers remained in Afghanistan but were not allowed to continue their mission. They were given temporary jobs in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan and later in Herat. Pending the outcome of the investigation, both men were relieved from their positions and sent home. Their war was over.

Quinn has since left the Army and started a job on Wall Street.

Martland, though, has been fighting to stay in the Army. In February 2015, the Army conducted a “Qualitative Management Program” review board. His supporters suspect because Martland had a “relief for cause” evaluation in his service record, the U.S. Army ordered Martland to be “involuntary discharged” from the Army by Nov. 1, 2015.

We face a question………..  What do we stand for?  The picture depicts a young “boy sex slave” or “bacha bereesh”.  Note the eye make-up ringing the sad eyes of a child who would otherwise be in elementary school.  This is what our soldiers are told to look away from …..or else…..

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