Afghan police accused of corruption and child abuse
Source: BBC News
Most police forces investigate crimes like corruption, kidnapping, drug use, murder and child abuse. But in Sangin - the most violent district in Afghanistan - these are crimes that some of the police commit.
When they did go out, what the marines saw was far from encouraging. At one checkpoint, the Afghan police were openly smoking marijuana. Two other police officers, assigned to fill sandbags to fortify a watchtower, were high on something stronger - probably opium or heroin. When one of the police commanders was shot, three weeks after I left, the American medics who saved him found a bag of heroin in his pocket.
But there are issues Major Steuber said need to be tackled head-on - including the sexual abuse of young boys by local police commanders. On every police base I visited in Sangin, there were young boys: some were armed, and some looked like servants. They are known as "chai boys".
Sangin Deputy Police Chief Qhattab Khan admitted this abuse is taking place, and promised to take action. He told Major Steuber: "The kids themselves want to stay at the patrol bases and give their bodies at night… There is no humanity. There is no military command".
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21547542
This is what we are spending American lives and treasure on. Drug addicted, mobsters with a taste for little boys more blatant than the Catholic Church. Young boys they murder if they try to escape. This is what George Bush, and yes, Barack Obama have made us accessories to.
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Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)their country. Think of the lives and money America could save, if we'd bring all the troops home, TODAY.
"Protecting and Serving" themselves.(just like Black-water/BushCo/KB&R/Halliburton taught the local "War-Lords" on our dime.
Misdirection and misinformation is about all we get from our own government since, 9/11. Six months before we invaded Iraq Bin Laden had fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan. Pakistan is known to have over 100 nuclear weapons to date. I believe America's presence in Afghanistan is for the same reason that all the troops were sent to Iraq in 2003. "Great places" to mass troops and equipment in the Middle East, according to the PNAC letter to then president Bill Clinton.
get the red out
(13,460 posts)We need to GET OUT.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)by the fact that they were worried about nuclear weapons in Iraq, while Pakistan was peddling the technology to North Korea.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and to the tune of $150 billion.
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)I think it's a frontline special.
The Police do nothing because many police leaders are part of it.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)It is depressing, and these people, these "leaders" have made us accomplices.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Did you know that the age of consent in Spain is 13? Do you care? Does that make the US or the UK accomplices to pedophilia?
"No, but that's their culture, we have no right to say it's right or wrong."
As to corruption and murder and drug abuse, that has all been going on for centuries. Afghanistan is known as a hellhole not just here but in South Asia and among its neighbors, as well.
I guess I'm not sure you have a point or not.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The authority of a uniform sometimes makes them worse (power corrupts)
With Afghanistan there is so much hidden from worldview, sexes are seperated even in schools. The religions training has a lot of children left for long periods of time with various religious trainers. Some of the adults may take advantage of the kids.
We have to get our military out of there but I have hopes we can continue to help the general population with education. 'Slavery' is very common in that part of the world.
