The innocence of Afghan children has been trampled during decades of endless conflict, writes BWBailey85. RestoringAmerica
Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, Afghan children and teenagers have increasingly become the victims of starvation, child marriage, organ trafficking, and natural disasters. Growing evidence also indicates the Taliban are sexually exploiting young boys or using them as child soldiers.
March 2022 photos from Khurasan News allegedly show a Taliban member being intimate with a small child. During the Taliban’s former regime, bacha bazi was punishable by death. The only published evidence suggesting Taliban acceptance of bacha bazi comes from 2016 reporting of Taliban members using dancing boys to infiltrate Afghan police headquarters, where they drugged and killed government employees. One Taliban commander was accused of drugging and raping a minor boy in December 2021, which may have been affiliated with the practice. He currently holds the role of police media chief.
Stills from a video show a slight and unsteady bacha be reesh dancing for fighters. Kabul Magazine alleges the fighters are members of the Taliban. Leslie Merriman, a volunteer supporting SIV applicants, explained Taliban commanders might have up to five boys whom they could use for dancing or sex, as servants, or as administrative aides.An evacuation volunteer alleges these three bacha be reesh belong to a Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan.
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