Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Alies

[Saxum]

U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=0

 

 

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 militias 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. “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.”

 

I used to do a lot of work with Marines overseas and some of them told that was one of the worst parts of being there along with systematic raping of women - these allies that they were supposed to work with and many of these men have come to US on visas with their practices.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=0

 

 

 

I used to do a lot of work with Marines overseas and some of them told that was one of the worst parts of being there along with systematic raping of women - these allies that they were supposed to work with and many of these men have come to US on visas with their practices.

 

*train whistle*

 

All aboard the PPP express...

[CountryCletus]

Moving in 3....2... 1....

[B-Man]

Also...................this a NYTimes article from September 2015.........its been discussed in other threads last year

 

and specifically here

 

http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/186176-is-sargeant-1st-class-martland-a-hero/?hl=afghan