US Contractor Bought Afghan Policemen Drugs, Little Boys, Cable Reveals

[tekisui]

Source: The Raw Story

US State Dept. called ownership of Afghan 'dancing boys' a 'culturally sanctioned form of male rape'

The Afghanistan interior minister was so concerned about an incident where DynCorp, a US contractor charged with training Afghan police, bought drugs and paid for young "dancing boys" that he asked the US embassy to work to "quash" the story, a secret US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks indicates.

In Afghan society, "dancing boys" are little boys dressed as girls, commonly abused and kept by some men as possessions.

As Joel Brinkley reported for SFGate.com, many Afghan Pashtun tribal men take boys age 9 to 15 as lovers. The US State Department recently called "dancing boys" a "widespread, culturally sanctioned form of male rape."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/contractor-bought-afghan-policemen-drugs-boys-cable-reveals/

[derby378]

1. God Bless WikiLeaks

Uh, PayPal? You wanted to kill the account of an organization exposing child sexual slavery in Afghanistan? Really?!?

[Catherina]

2. Yep they do. They don't need people asking why the corruption that prompted

populist support for and the rise of the Taliban is back with a vengeance. The truth about the sanctioned reestablishment of sexual slavery would interfere with the tear-jerking burka stories.

[Doctor_J]

3. I am waiting for an anti-wikileaks zealot to explain again why

learning this information is bad. :eyes:

[tekisui]

4. k