Taliban use 'honey trap' boys to kill Afghan police

The insurgents are using boys as honey traps, said 21-year-old Matiullah, a policeman who was the only survivor from an insider attack in Dehrawud district in spring last year.

He said the attacker was the checkpoint commander's own sex slave, a teenager called Zabihullah. Late one night, he went on a shooting spree, killing seven policemen including the commander as they slept.

"He brought the Taliban inside and poked all the bodies with rifle butts to see if anyone was alive. I pretended to be dead," said Matiullah, who now works as a tailor, pointing out a gash on his forehead.

"As his Taliban accomplices gathered our weapons and ammunition, Zabihullah declared: 'Everyone is dead'."

- 'Addiction' to boys -

The Taliban, who banned bacha bazi during their 1996-2001 rule, roundly denied deploying any underage boys for insider attacks.

"We have a special mujahideen brigade for such operations -- all grown men with beards," a Taliban spokesman told AFP.

The insurgents have long denied using children in combat, a claim repeatedly debunked by rights groups and the government.

Survivors of insider attacks who spoke to AFP, including Matiullah, suggest the Taliban are exploiting the institutionalisation of bacha bazi in police ranks for military gain.

Practically all of Uruzgan's 370 local and national police checkpoints have bachas -- some up to four -- who are illegally recruited not just for sexual companionship but also to bear arms, multiple officials said.

Some policemen, they said, demand bachas like a perk of the job, refusing to join outposts where they are not available.

Horrifying abuse at checkpoints makes the boys, many unpaid and unregistered, hungry for revenge and easy prey for Taliban recruitment -- often because there is no other escape from exploitative commanders.

Many who have tried to escape have been dragged back with trumped up charges of Taliban links, two senior provincial judges told AFP.

Boys have also spurred a deadly rivalry between policemen, with officials reporting incidents such as a public gunfight this year between two commanders in Gezab district as one of them angrily accused the other of "stealing" his bacha.

"To restore security in Uruzgan, we will first have to separate policemen from their bachas," one of the judges said.

"But if they are told to reform their ways, a common reply is: 'If you force me to abandon my boy lover, I will also abandon the checkpoint'. The Taliban are not blind to notice that this addiction is worse than opium."

- 'Male rape' -

Bacha bazi, which the US State Department has called a "culturally sanctioned form of male rape", peels away the masculine identity of boys in a society where the sexes are tightly segregated.

In conservative areas women are mostly invisible in public -- and often unattainable due to steep bride prices. Bachas supplant the role of women, adopting a feminine gait and sometimes wearing makeup and bells on their feet.

Many in Uruzgan see bacha bazi neither as paedophilia nor homosexuality, which is forbidden in Islam. If social norms had a pecking order, violating boys would be seen as far more ethical than violating women.

"Bacha bazi is pervasive sexual slavery of children, seen widely as a cultural practice and not a crime," Charu Lata Hogg, a director at London-based charity Child Soldiers International, told AFP.

"Since it is mostly practised by those in positions of power -- warlords, commanders, politicians -- it is hard to stamp out. It appears sustained partly by the fact that access to women is limited."

Insider attacks by child slaves have also been reported in recent years from neighbouring Helmand and Kandahar provinces, where bacha bazi is prevalent.

But the tactic appears more deep rooted in Uruzgan, where the boys are widely flaunted as a totem of affluence, with some officials openly displaying cellphone images to AFP of their "handsome bachas".

"Come see my beautiful bacha," said Naqibullah, a police commander in Dehjawze village near Tarin Kot, boasting that he had been holding the teenager for two years.

With a touch of kohl on his eyes, and bleached blond curly hair poking out of his embroidered hat, the boy sat in a corner of the checkpoint surrounded by opium farms, quietly refilling tea glasses for Naqibullah's guests.

- 'Predatory behaviour' -

"Commanders prowl neighbourhoods for young boys. We are scared of dressing up our children or buying new clothes that will make them attractive," said Nader Khan, a tribal elder in Dehrawud.

Khan's 13-year-old nephew was taken captive earlier this year by Naqibullah, a local commander not related to the Dehjawze official, when his family sent him to deliver bread for policemen. He was released only after angry tribal elders besieged the governor's office in Tarin Kot.

Governor Mohammad Nazir Kharoti told AFP he ordered Naqibullah's arrest but he was released in less than a month because he was needed for combat duty.

"It is difficult to implement the law 100 percent when we are faced with a war situation," Kharoti said, without elaborating on the case.

Afghanistan's interior ministry refused to confirm or deny that bachas were being used in insurgent attacks, but said it was committed to police reforms and acknowledged that "bacha bazi within the ranks of police is a serious crime".

The practice has put the United States and its NATO allies, who have spent billions of dollars to build Afghan forces, in a precarious position.

The US Congress last year voiced concern over "predatory sexual behaviour by Afghan soldiers and police", prompting watchdog agency SIGAR to launch an investigation that is still ongoing.

The head of a government-affiliated agency in Uruzgan showed AFP two letters from the attorney general in Kabul, one last year and another dated January, ordering a separate probe into sexual abuse and the illegal recruitment of child conscripts.

"We haven't been able to visit even one checkpoint to investigate," he said, speaking in hushed whispers in his own office.

"Do you think police commanders will leave us alive if we probe their crimes?"

>>51166
For fucks sake can we just nuke that entire area already?

>>51166
I know this is horrible... but I can't stop laughing.

"unravelling hard-won gains by US, Australian and Dutch troops who fought there for years." BRAVELY PROTECTING THE RIGHT OF THE LOCAL POLICE TO HAVE BOY SEX SLAVES.

Oh man. This is delicious. In the words of Bittenfeld, "When a devil fights a monster, I as a human being, can only hope they BOTH perish!"

I do feel bad for the US and allied troops now though. More than even this illustrates what a waste of time the Afghan campaign was/is.

>>51166
I'm confused I thought the muslims hate gays?
Yet muslims in most of the middle east either seem to be gay, rapists, or pedophiles.

The world, our life all are fake. Time-- space--destiny none of it exits.

>>51240
except male-rape in Afghanistan... this exists. Go preach more Midwest U.S. Philosophic bullshit somewhere else.

>>51166
>bacha bereesh
I could of sworn that I read an article a while back about how Us soldiers were told to ignore acts of pedophilia acts done by Afghan police a while back.

How is this so widespread anyway?

>>51238
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzSnmL1mjJw&t=2m41s

When there's an environment that doesn't allow for reasonable access to sex with women, and yet the culture pressures and judges you to have female relations, people just do what it takes to get their rocks off and come up with crazy excuses in their mind for why it doesn't count. See prison gay.

at least now goats are now exclusive to the dinning menu

>>51247
The article touches upon it. Women are scarce and abusing a women or premarital sex are seen as worse sins than fucking a boy is. It's a cultural practise completely separate from Islam and they practise some kind of doublethink to justify it.

>>51166
>The Taliban are sending boys -- beautiful boys, handsome boys -- to penetrate
heheheh

>>51247
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI
poor steuber

>>51166
>tfw you will never be a qtp2t trap femme fatale eradicating degenerate pigs for the glory of Allah

I believe the correct term is "honey dick"

>>51166
They wouldn't be forced to rape boys if white people something america didn't privilege and then cishet men.

>>51166
>'beautiful boys, handsome boys'
>'If you force me to abandon my boy lover, I will also abandon the checkpoint'.
>openly displaying cellphone images to AFP of their "handsome bachas".
>"Come see my beautiful bacha," said Naqibullah, a police commander
the keks are eternal with this one

>>51301
That makes sense. That's also why they advertise about virgin women in afterlife?

Yes but where are the taliban spy shota doujins.

Somebody please tell Japan the news.

I may have become a supporter of the Taliban.

>>51166
>Afghanistan
At least the Taliban outlawed bacha bereesh. Bunch of savages.

>>>51333
ahem...those be trips...not dubs...matey.

This is why every soldier sent to afganistan was betrayed. Remember the guy (a marine I think) who was told to look the other way and couldnt do it anymore and beat the everlasting fuck outta some pedo Afghan Police Chief? Pretty sure he got a dishonorable discharge for it too. If anyhing I think he had far more honor thsn any of the men that outranked him

>>51238
Remember the antigay senators in the USA that kept getting caught fucking other men?

>>51238
It's not gay if they don't have a beard.

It's never gay if they don't have a beard.

>>51805
Than any of the men in his unit. There were people ranked below him who looked the other way. Every time I look at military training, a lot of it is straight up brainwashing. It's useful when the commander is an upstanding guy, but not every officer is a good dude.

Just makes it more prevelant what a time waste trying to do anything in the middle east is.

>>51805
Army SF E7, later got threatened w/QMP But congress intervened

>>51166
So youre tellin me boipussy is killin cops in afghanistan?

>>53680
>>51238
Afghanistan is not in the Middle East, it's Central Asian, also sometimes considered South Asian too.

>>53765
>this much autism to deflect the truth

>>53765
butthurt bacha bereesh lover detected.

>>53682
Thats good to hear man

>>51166
>tfw a whole nation is so pedo that it becomes a major national security risk
kek, let the talibans cleanse the filth

>>51240
Time is a tool. Space clearly exists. Destiny is a mere idea.

You're fucking insane.

>>51805
Link, info on this?

Sooo like Greece or Rome or Sparta?

>>53918
>comparing a shitty middle eastern country to some of the greatest nations of their time
>comparing a modern country to those from an ancient era
t. Abdullah

>>53922
Didn't rome have a literal gay whore emperor?
Also wasn't it only gay if you took it up the ass? I vaguely recall it being accepted to fuck a dude not get fucked

Memetastic

>>51171
No.
Let's try to save the lives of the good people. The human race has time before life here on Earth ends.

>>51240
We're all just figments of each other's imaginations.

They will still need to be sent to hell with the faggots they kill.

>>53923
Rome had a lot of things. They had an emperor who fired an advisor and tried to replace him with a horse. The Roman Empire also dissolved thousands of years ago, depending on how you feel about the Byzantines. Afghanistan is a country now, in the current era, which boasts none of the feats of Rome, but apparently all of the faults and more.

Also solely being gay is not a problem anymore. It's that they're diddling kids in order to fulfill their disgusting desert lust.

its too bad this news story got killed by the dallas shooting, isn't it?

>>51166
I personally don't see the problem. They are mujaheddin. They use children as young as 8 to toss hand grenades down tank barrels while hanging from a canyon rope.

They are a warrior culture, thats how they live their lives. As long as they aren't diddling their kids, I don't see the problem.

There is nothing IN Afghanistan. It merely serves as a waypoint for our oil pipelines. They charge a toll for our oil traveling through their territory, we get a shiny new pipeline. They get their drugs and hashish, we get our money.

Same thing thats been going on for over 300 years and started with the dutch east india company.

>>53973
>anyone living in those zones
>good

kill them all, they already reproduce at an allarming rate.

Was colonialism really that bad?