Afghan boys used as sex slaves by warlords.

[Moxie]

After reading the five pages I was left feeling ill and cold inside, these boys are sexually abused until they grow body hair. What left me cold was the children seem to be accepting of their role as sex slaves. Honestly, it's left me speechless with shock and horror.

Snippet: PUL-E KHUMRI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - They are known as "bacha bereesh", boys without beards, teenage boys who dress up as girls and dance for male patrons at parties in northern Afghanistan.

It's an age old practice that has led to some of the boy dancers being turned into sex slaves by wealthy and powerful patrons, often former warlords, who dress the boys up as girls, shower them with gifts and keep them as "mistresses".

Afghan police are battling to crackdown on the practice which has angered Islamic clerics who say those involved should be stoned for sodomy, forbidden under Islamic law.

In a society where the sexes are strictly segregated, it is common for men to dance for other men at weddings in Afghanistan.

But in northern Afghanistan, former warlords and mujahideen commanders have taken that a step further with competitions for their dancing boys.

"Every boy tries to be the first. They are dressed in women's clothes, have bells on their feet and have artificial breasts," said Mohammad Yawar, a former mujahideen fighter against the Taliban and resident of the northern town of Pul-e Khumri.

The practice, called "bacha bazi" -- literally "boy play" -- has a long history in northern Afghanistan, but sometimes it does not stop with just dancing.

"I very much enjoy hugging a boy. His smell and fragrance kills me," said Yawar.

The 38-year-old businessman said he recruited a 15-year-old boy three years ago to help him with his work. Continued...

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[luvacuppajoe]

Stuff like this only helps one realize that we're fortunate in our part of the world where childhood is actually supposed to be fun, innocent and free from depravity and horror.

That's not true in much of the rest of the world.

[Moxie]

Globally children are suffering at the hands of animals like these men, yet these men aren't ashamed of their pedophile behavior in Afghanistan-in fact they seem to think using children as sex toys is quite acceptable.

[kengs333]

Stuff like this only helps one realize that we're fortunate in our part of the world where childhood is actually supposed to be fun, innocent and free from depravity and horror.

That's not true in much of the rest of the world.

To bad our ability to have childhoods that are fun come at such a cost for the rest of the world, for how else can we have the materialistic, consumeristic society that allows parents to fill their houses with cheap plastic toys by not exploiting the rest of the world. I don't think that there is a rule out there that says childhood should be fun; it should be a time when one learns to be a functional, moral, responsible person. But it definitely should be a time of innocence. Things like this happen because people are not taught to be moral; and this is the result of many things, which, were I Rue, I'd be happy to continue rambling on about for another 3,000 words or so, but there's only so much of this kind of stuff that I can stomach. The world is an inherantly evil place, and it is so because people choose to make it so.

[buffycat]

And these sorts of things never happen in Canada - nope no pedophelia here.. no sirrreeee!!

(Never mind the res schools/Catholic churches usw).

It's sick no matter where it happens, but of course Moxie must use this a proof that all Afghans are child abusers eh?

What rubbish.

[luvacuppajoe]

To bad our ability to have childhoods that are fun come at such a cost for the rest of the world, for how else can we have the materialistic, consumeristic society that allows parents to fill their houses with cheap plastic toys by not exploiting the rest of the world. I don't think that there is a rule out there that says childhood should be fun; it should be a time when one learns to be a functional, moral, responsible person. But it definitely should be a time of innocence. Things like this happen because people are not taught to be moral; and this is the result of many things, which, were I Rue, I'd be happy to continue rambling on about for another 3,000 words or so, but there's only so much of this kind of stuff that I can stomach. The world is an inherantly evil place, and it is so because people choose to make it so.

Point taken, kengs, although we weren't all raised amid piles of cheap plastic toys. It's our good fortune at having been born into a free and prosperous society that allows our children the high standards they enjoy.

See I was raised with the idea that fun meant playing hide-and-seek in the corn stalks...because we were free from hunger. Fun was pretending the oil barrel was a horse...because we were free from the cold. Fun was playing at the frog pond in summer and skating on it in winter....because we had prosperity in a little bit of land to call our own. Fun was standing in my grandpa's work boots and preteneding I was off to the big world....because we had the security of his job. Fun was watching 2 or 3 generations of family playing cards around the kitchen table or laughing around a campfire...because we had value in our roots. Fun was rolling dough around the kitchen floor while my granny baked break...because someone was home everyday to raise and love me. Fun was building huge snow forts and sledding with the neighbor kids...because, well we didn't have global warming in the 70s.

That's the kind of fun I'm talking about, and those are the means by which I learned my moral teachings every day because I was free to be a child: life is meant to be enjoyed, family comes first and looks after each other, we take our responsibilities seriously, we provide for our elders and our kids, we work hard, take pride in ownership and pay respect to our past .So no, there's no rule that childhood has to be fun, you're right. It's just so much better when it is, and it doesn't have to come at the expense of someone else.

[Oleg Bach]

After reading the five pages I was left feeling ill and cold inside, these boys are sexually abused until they grow body hair. What left me cold was the children seem to be accepting of their role as sex slaves. Honestly, it's left me speechless with shock and horror.

Snippet: PUL-E KHUMRI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - They are known as "bacha bereesh", boys without beards, teenage boys who dress up as girls and dance for male patrons at parties in northern Afghanistan.

It's an age old practice that has led to some of the boy dancers being turned into sex slaves by wealthy and powerful patrons, often former warlords, who dress the boys up as girls, shower them with gifts and keep them as "mistresses".

Afghan police are battling to crackdown on the practice which has angered Islamic clerics who say those involved should be stoned for sodomy, forbidden under Islamic law.

In a society where the sexes are strictly segregated, it is common for men to dance for other men at weddings in Afghanistan.

But in northern Afghanistan, former warlords and mujahideen commanders have taken that a step further with competitions for their dancing boys.

"Every boy tries to be the first. They are dressed in women's clothes, have bells on their feet and have artificial breasts," said Mohammad Yawar, a former mujahideen fighter against the Taliban and resident of the northern town of Pul-e Khumri.

The practice, called "bacha bazi" -- literally "boy play" -- has a long history in northern Afghanistan, but sometimes it does not stop with just dancing.

"I very much enjoy hugging a boy. His smell and fragrance kills me," said Yawar.

The 38-year-old businessman said he recruited a 15-year-old boy three years ago to help him with his work. Continued...

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Always found it hypocritical when a liberalist states the reason for Canadian envolvement in Afghanistan is "So a little girl can go to school" - Such emotional jerking tripe. If there was a true concern for children by our socialist - well - they would insist on an invasion of the whole pacific rim countries that sell their children as sex slaves to creepy rich westerners. I really don't think that the true powers that be really care about protecting children. I suspect that when a Vancouver judge deems child prono as art - that - leads me to believe that some of the judicary may lean in a horribly sexually dysfucntional direction. No one gives a damn about OTHER PEOPLES chidren...they are liars -

I have not seen any sign of real child protection in Canada - just an industry of parasitic and vicarious social workers who drain the system dry under the guise of child protection enriching themselves and no one else - it's a buisness and children are a commodity akin to job creation in effect making them a type of employer - that more resembles child labour - to drag a child out of bed at 5 am to take the poor crying infant to day care is abuse and usery buy a huge and insidious system of parasites..as I said - once you corner these creeps who say they protect children - they go into self survival mode and only strive to save themselves..just can't stand terms like "child poverty" which is totally misleading - there is only adult poverty - but ADULT poverty does not pull at the heart strings the same way so it is ignored...and by doing so creates child poverty.