LASHKAR GAH, AFGHANISTAN: AFP has gathered testimonies from multiple Afghan families whose children were abducted for the practice of "bacha bazi" -- sexual exploitation of boys. The stories come ...
“Bacha bazi” are the dancing boys of Afghanistan — boys who are forced to dress as females to dance and entertain Pashtun men, who make them their sex slaves. Look, a drag queen named “Nicole ...
THE “dancing boys” are pulled from the streets, dressed as girls and forced to dance for rich men. But that’s not even the worst of it. Rich and powerful men have been prowling the streets of ...
In Afghanistan, young boys and adolescents are adorned in makeup, dressed in brightly coloured women's clothing and sent before groups of powerful men to dance and entertain. They are victims of Bacha ...
The Taliban are accused of using child sex slaves to attack police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the cultural practice of "bacha bazi" -- paedophilic boy play -- for military gain. The ...
Afghan subculture of ‘bacha bazi’ has seen resurgence in recent years after being banned under Taliban rule. The Taliban are accused of using child sex slaves to attack police in southern Afghanistan, ...
America’s 20-year misadventure in Afghanistan failed to root out bacha bazi, the Afghan custom of men molesting boys. Indeed, the practice, banned and severely punished by the Taliban, flourished ...
TARIN KOT (Afghanistan): The Afghan government says it will punish police officers involved in the institutionalised sexual abuse of children after an AFP report found the Taliban are exploiting the ...
A glassy-eyed Afghan teenager sits mutely beside his father, hunched over a tray of tea and candy, unable to tell the painful story of how he was kidnapped by a policeman to be used as his sex slave.