Society & Politics

Are you familiar with the term "Bacha Bazi"?

As many of you know, i am STRONGLY against anyone harming children. What i am about to share is sickening. What bothers me about this, isn't just what happened in the middle east, its the fact that our Soldiers were told by the upper command to ignore it.

Bacha bazi is a practice in which pubescent boys are enslaved to dance and entertain older men. Their masters dress the boys as women and, in addition to dancing, the boys submit to their masters’ sexual whims. After the boys grow beards, they are undesirable and no longer fulfill the function of sex and servitude.

Many explanations account for how the practice of bacha bazi developed in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and across Central Asia. The origins of bacha bazi could theoretically stretch back to the invasion of Alexander the Great in 330 BCE due to the well-documented practice of pederasty in ancient Greece. Scholars, however, theorize that Afghanistan’s more recent and turbulent history rendered boys vulnerable to the vagaries of war, endemic conflict, and widespread poverty and enabled the emergence and ongoing practice of bacha bazi. In destitution, boys (usually illiterate) found themselves unprotected by their families and forced into any employment they could find, including sexual services. Sometimes, boys were given to men of influence, such as warlords or government officials, by their fathers in return for money; many boys were trafficked by pimps. Sexual abuse was a reality plotted and acknowledged by everyone involved.

And basically our soldiers over there were ordered to ignore it.

Attached is a lengthy article written by the "Army War College"

Its sad, its sick. and it reinforces the following phrase

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

https://publications.armywarcollege.edu/News/Display/Article/4129311/soldiering-and-silences-witnessing-child-sexual-abuse-in-afghanistan/

Read the linked article if you want to know more.

Are you familiar with the term "Bacha Bazi"?
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