Pentagon Deeply Concerned Over Reports of Afghan Allies’ Abuse of Boys

The abuse of boys by powerful Afghan men has been reported by CNN and other global news organizations in the past.

In Afghanistan, the practice of “bacha bazi” – which translates to “playing with boys” – is seen as a status symbol for many warlords and militia leaders who effectively enslave handsome prepubescent and adolescent boys to dance for them and perform sex acts.

“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before the tragic event.

Today the New York Times reports that the American military stands accused of ordering troops to purposely turning a blind eye to the abuse in order to maintain good relations with Afghan forces. Quinn added that village elders told him the US Military was giving power to people who did things that far worse than what the Taliban did.

Violent outbursts between Afghan police officers engaging in pedophilia and USA military personnel are not limited to Sgt. It gets worse. Captain Quinn sounds like he deserves a medal for standing up for the voiceless and powerless victims he encountered. Martland must leave the Army by November . 1 due to his actions.

The Afghan government has in recent times tried to crack down on the ancient and outlawed practice of child abuse, which is prevalent across rural parts of the country.

Recent media reports citing alleged cases from 2010, 2011, and 2012, have claimed that in the past a command policy existed within the Afghan theater of operations that USA forces were to ignore suspicions of sexual abuse committed by Afghans against children.

“The Army contends that Martland and others should have looked the other way (a contention that I believe is nonsense)”, said Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who supports Sergeant Martland and hopes to save his career.

The Leahy Law, which has been on the books since 1997, is designed to leverage crucial USA military aid to discourage the types of abuses that push civilians and potential fighters into the arms of insurgent groups like the Taliban.

“I had a boy because every commander had one”, Mestary, a former commander of the Northern Alliance that fought against the Taliban, said in a PBS documentary, “The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan”, in 2010.

Quinn beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave, which saw him relieved of his duty.

“This kind of behaviour doesn’t just violate Afghan law and Afghanistan’s global obligations, it certainly violates pretty much everybody’s notion of what acceptable behaviour is”, Earnest said later. (Though even if it does, the weight still falls on the current administration for not stopping it.) Or did it come strictly from inside the military without anyone “bothering” the civilian leadership over it? A story breaking over the weekend reveals that our “Afghan allies” have been engaged in a sick practice referred to as “boy play” in the common parlance.

“The only people who should be punished are the ones who created and condoned this immoral and savage code“, Buchanan continued.