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Bacha bāzī (Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play')[1] is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex.[2][3] It is a custom in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution by older men of young adolescent males.[4]
According to German ethnographic research, the phenomenon is up to a thousand years old. As far back as the 9th or 10th century, the mountainous regions that are now northern Afghanistan were known for this practice.[5]
Bacha bazi was outlawed during the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan period (see sources which are dated to 2010; 2011; and 2013).[6][7][8] Nevertheless, it was widely practiced. Force and coercion were common, and security officials of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan stated they were unable to end such practices and that many of the men involved in bacha bazi were powerful and well-armed warlords.[9][10][11]
During the time of Taliban rule currently and previously, bacha bazi carries the death penalty under Taliban law.[12] Under the Islamic Republic government, the practice of dancing boys was illegal under Afghan law, but the laws were seldom enforced against powerful offenders, and police had reportedly been complicit in related crimes.[13][14] The practice of bacha bazi had decreased under the rule of the Islamic Republic government.[15][16] On 23 September 2016, the Taliban militants in northern Baghlan province executed a man and a boy on charges of “bacha bazi” (pederasty).[17]
U.S. government forces in Afghanistan after the invasion of the country reportedly deliberately ignored bacha bazi abuse by Afghan allies.[18] This caused controversy. The U.S. military responded by claiming the abuse was largely the responsibility of the "local Afghan government".[citation needed]
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- ^ Ingeborg Baldauf's Die Knabenliebe in Mittelasien: bačabozlik, Berlin: Das Arabische Buch, 1988, p.5
- ^ Qobil, Rustam (September 7, 2010). "The sexually abused dancing boys of Afghanistan". BBC News. Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
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- ^ Mondloch, Chris (Oct 28, 2013). "Bacha Bazi: An Afghan Tragedy". Foreign Policy Magazine. Retrieved Apr 23, 2015.
- ^ Wijngaarden, Jan Willem de Lind van (October 2011). "Male adolescent concubinage in Peshawar, Northwestern Pakistan". Culture, Health & Sexuality. 13 (9). Taylor & Francis, Ltd: 1061–1072. doi:10.1080/13691058.2011.599863. JSTOR 23047511. PMID 21815728. S2CID 5058030. Archived from the original on 4 July 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
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- ^ Roshni Kapur, The Diplomat. "Bacha Bazi: The Tragedy of Afghanistan's Dancing Boys". The Diplomat. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ^ "Afghan boy dancers sexually abused by former warlords". Reuters. 2007-11-18. Archived from the original on 2008-01-11. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
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- ^ Bannerman, Mark The Warlord's Tune: Afghanistan's war on children Archived 2017-08-31 at the Wayback Machine at Australian Broadcasting Corporation February 22, 2010
- ^ "Bacha bazi: the scandal of Afghanistan's abused boys". The Week. 29 January 2020. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "Afghanistan must end the practice of bacha bazi, the sexual abuse of boys". European Interest. 25 December 2019. Archived from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "Taliban kill 2 people over "bacha bazi" in Baghlan – Archive".
- ^ Goldstein, Joseph (2015-09-20). "U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2018-01-24.