US Troops in Afghanistan ordered to turn blind eye to sexual abuse by Afghan commanders, punished fo
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[QUOTE]Soldiers and Marines in the United States Armed Forces in Afghanistan, tasked with training and maintaining local security forces in the war-torn country, are instructed to “look the other way” when it comes to the brutal sexual abuse of young children by Afghan officers.
According to a report by The New York Times, “rampant sexual abuse of children” has plagued the region during U.S. occupation and throughout reconstruction. Afghan officers routinely engage in “bacha bazi,” which is Persian slang for “boy play.”
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The report stems from an incident in 2011 when Sgt. Charles Martland, a decorated member of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces, received a reprimand for confronting an Afghan police officer who had raped a 12-year-old boy. The confrontation between Martland and the Afghan officer became a physical altercation which led to the army relieving Martland of his duties.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.ijreview.com/2015/09/425377-sexual-abuse-in-afghanistan/[/url]
Another source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/22/asia/afghanistan-boy-abuse-us-military/[/url]
What the fuck. Why would you punish soldiers for reporting this kind of stuff?
Theres a documentary "so this is what winning looks like" and there is a police chief who routinely raped boys.
Also the US advisors tell the afghan soldiers to fill sandbags. Their solution:
Stop nearby car
Kidnap occupants at gunpoint
Make them fill the sandbags while they get high
Worth a watch. I feel terribly sorry for the guys who fought so hard to make an improvement or those who lost loved ones. Tbh I hope they never have to see the documentary.
The soldier who reported the shia militias torturing sunni captives also told threatened not to tell anyone. I think he might have told people and gone on to be dismissed. That was iraq though.
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;48737935]Theres a documentary "so this is what winning looks like" and there is a police chief who routinely raped boys.
Also the US advisors tell the afghan soldiers to fill sandbags. Their solution:
Stop nearby car
Kidnap occupants at gunpoint
Make them fill the sandbags while they get high
Worth a watch. I feel terribly sorry for the guys who fought so hard to make an improvement or those who lost loved ones. Tbh I hope they never have to see the documentary.
The soldier who reported the shia militias torturing sunni captives also told threatened not to tell anyone. I think he might have told people and gone on to be dismissed. That was iraq though.[/QUOTE]
These are just some of the reasons that people have reservations about mass migration from the middle east, their culture is different to ours in so many ways to make integration possible.
Not surprising when we basically poured money on these forces to keep them from bugging out every time things got bad
[QUOTE=karlosfandango;48738138]These are just some of the reasons that people have reservations about mass migration from the middle east, their culture is different to ours in so many ways to make integration possible.[/QUOTE]
Smart arguement against allowing migrants into a country. I guess education and keeping them busy would help tackle it.
[editline]22nd September 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sableye;48738173]Not surprising when we basically poured money on these forces to keep them from bugging out every time things got bad[/QUOTE]
The US spends more maintaining and supplying the Afghan army than the Afghans can muster in taxes.
[QUOTE=Sableye;48738173]Not surprising when we basically poured money on these forces to keep them from bugging out every time things got bad[/QUOTE]
And every major attack half of these forces defect to terrorists.
I guess the "culture" difference makes it hard to understand like boy play being ok, but honestly it just sounds revolting
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;48737935]Theres a documentary "so this is what winning looks like" and there is a police chief who routinely raped boys.
Also the US advisors tell the afghan soldiers to fill sandbags. Their solution:
Stop nearby car
Kidnap occupants at gunpoint
Make them fill the sandbags while they get high
Worth a watch. I feel terribly sorry for the guys who fought so hard to make an improvement or those who lost loved ones. Tbh I hope they never have to see the documentary.[/QUOTE]
I remember watching that. I liked at the end where the Commander used the base's twisted, barely standing, but still working radio tower as a metaphor for the country.
So when can we file this under lack of human rights and just take over the place?
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;48738245]And every major attack half of these forces defect to terrorists.[/QUOTE]
Exactly. The terrorists then gain access to uniforms and weapons and use it to attack US and allied bases and do fuckloads of damage.
It saddens me that we consider childfuckers "allies" and don't prosecute them.
Vice had a documentary about the shit job we did there and at one point the U.S commander was trying to convince the Afghan commander to start a crack down on this. And the Afghan commander said "If they don't fuck the asses of those boys, what should they fuck?"
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI[/media]
At about 52:40
I swear there are some places so backwards half the time they're not worth saving. Listening to that commander's excuses "Well they were abused so it's their turn to abuse the next generation and start the cycle all over again" just makes it feel like the millions poured into Afghanistan exchanged one shitty situation for another mired by corruption. Do these fuckers have any concept of human decency? Is it so hard to abstain from "fucking those boys' asses"?
[QUOTE=Spetsnaz95;48737925]What the fuck. Why would you punish soldiers for reporting this kind of stuff?[/QUOTE]
We have to win hearts and minds right?
Shit, rebuilding backwards countries without a stable governments or national identities is such a waste of time.
[editline]26th September 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE]the subculture of bacha bazi, or "boy play," in which young Afghans are used as sex slaves by grown men.[/QUOTE]
And I doubt our culture will launch a crusade against this. Its boys afterall.
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