Wikileaks: Americans implicated in child prostitution ring in Afghanistan

[khad]

http://humantrafficking.change.org/b...n#share_source

Just like in the jihad in the 80s, when there are pedos, you can bet that an American is somehow involved.

Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Tax Dollars Fund Child Sex Slavery in Afghanistan
by Amanda Kloer December 08, 2010 11:20 AM (PT)

The now infamous Wikileaks recently released a cable from Afghanistan revealing U.S. government contractor DynCorp threw a party for Afghan security recruits featuring trafficked boys as the entertainment. Bacha bazi is the Afghan tradition of "boy play" where young boys are dressed up in women's clothing, forced to dance for leering men, and then sold for sex to the highest bidder. Apparently this is the sort of "entertainment" funded by your tax dollars when DynCorp is in charge of security in Afghanistan.

DynCorp is a government contractor which has been providing training for Afghan security and police forces for several years. Though the company is about as transparent as a lead-coated rock, most reports claim over 95% of their budget comes from U.S. taxpayers. That's the same budget that DynCorp used to pay for a party in Kunduz Province for some Afghan police trainees. The entertainment for the evening was bacha bazi boys, whose pimps were paid so the boys would sing and dance for the recruits and then be raped by them afterward. That's your tax dollars at work -- fighting terrorism and extremism in Afghnistan by trafficking little boys for sex with cops-in-training.

In fact, the evidence linking DynCorp to bacha bazi was so damning, Afghan Minister of the Interior Hanif Atmar tried to quash the story. Upon hearing a journalist was investigating DynCorp and the U.S. government's funding of the sex trafficking of young boys in Afghanistan, Atmar warned any publication of the story would "endanger lives," and requested the U.S. suppress the story. Atmar admitted he had arrested eleven Afghans nationals as "facilitators" of the bacha bazi party. But he was only charging them with "purchasing a service from a child," which is illegal under Sharia law and the civil code. And in this case "services" is not used as a euphemism for sex; so far, no one is being held accountable for the young boys whose rapes were paid for by the U.S. taxpayers.

As if this story couldn't get any more outrageous, Atmar went on to say that if news of the incident got out, he was "worried about the image of foreign mentors". In other words, why should something as piddling as the humiliation, objectification, sale, and rape of some children tarnish the good name of DynCorp and all the work (read: money) they're doing in Afghanistan? After all, bacha bazi is growing in popularity in Afghanistan, especially in areas like Kunduz. Why shouldn't U.S. government contractors be able to win local favor by pimping young boys?

Of course, this isn't the first time DynCorp has used U.S. tax dollars to support sex trafficking. In Bosnia in 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac was fired from the company after blowing the whistle on DynCorp's staffers pimping out girls as young as 12 from Eastern European countries. DynCorp settled a lawsuit involving Bolkovac, and her story was recently featured in The Whistleblower, where she was portrayed by Rachel Weiss. It's a happy ending for one DynCorp whistle blower, but will there be a Bolkovac in Afghanistan?

It's time American taxpayers demanded a zero tolerance policy on our money being used to support child sex trafficking overseas. Tell the UN Mission to Afghanistan the time has come to crack down on those who buy and sell boys in bacha bazi, whether they're Afghans or U.S. government contractors, security personnel or citizens. No one should be able to traffic children so sex and get away with it, and that includes repeat offender DynCorp. We have a right to demand our tax dollars go to fight trafficking, not support it. And we have a right to demand the U.S. government and their contractors be held accountable for exploiting the boys of Afghanistan.

[Kiev Communard]

This is so despilicable that I can't even find words to describe it. If Hell existed, the (undoubtedly publicly pious) DynCorp CEOs would deserve to be sent for it.

[Comrade Marxist Bro]

Wikileaks Reveals Freedom Isn't Free; U.S. Tax Dollars Fund Child Sex Slavery in Afghanistan
by Amanda Kloer December 08, 2010 11:20 AM (PT)

Fixed.

Next Nobel Peace Prize to Julian Assange and Bradley Manning to redeem the devalued honor of winning one.

[Diello]

Atmar warned any publication of the story would "endanger lives,"

This is just hilarious to me. It's like they've got a big hat full of slips of paper that they go to when they need a rationalization for something.

"I got 'Doing otherwise would endanger innocent lives.' What'd you get?"

"Oh, I got 'It's necessary to safeguard freedom and democracy.'"

[Red Commissar]

I'm assuming since I didn't hear about this until now, the US made good on his demand to suppress the story.

[IronEastBloc]

Nothing a bit of long, "corrective labor" wouldn't solve...that or execution.

[Sixiang]

Yeah, that sounds like the U.S. government. I'm not too surprised. And it looks like the U.S. did do a good job of suppressing the story from getting out. That also sounds like the U.S. government. Here's another thing that the money that is taken out of my paycheck every two weeks is going to.

[Obs]

Atmar warned any publication of the story would "endanger lives,"

Well maybe if you stopped FUCKING CHILDREN people would be slightly less inclined to kill you.

[MilkmanofHumanKindness]

[wunderbar]

With information like this out in the open, the fact that people are still trying to silence WikiLeaks is nothing short of sick and despicable.

[~Spectre]

This is a powerful leak in particular, spread this one as best you can. It will disgust even Obama partisans.

[khad]

This is a powerful leak in particular, spread this one as best you can. It will disgust even Obama partisans.

This could be some really effective agitprop. Imagine the slogans you could come up with:

"American occupation forces: raping kids from Herat to Jalalabad"

[La Comédie Noire]

And this is better than a single payer health care system how?

[khad]

Remember that Afghan cop who went rogue and killed 5 British occupiers? Here's the reason why he did it.

http://www.alternet.org/world/143956...han_occupation

There was a horrified reaction across Britain last week when a 25-year old policeman called Gulbuddin working in a police station in the Nad Ali district of Helmand killed five British soldiers when he opened fire with a machine gun on them. But the reason he did so, according to Christina Lamb in The Sunday Times, citing two Afghans who knew Gulbuddin, was that he had been brutally beaten, sodomised and sexually molested by a senior Afghan officer whom he regarded as being protected by the British.