Rick Westhead writing at TheStar:
....U.S. Marine Maj. Bill Steuber, like most people in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, knew that local Afghan police were keeping young boys as sex slaves.
The practice, known as bacha bazi, or “boy play,” was an open secret in Sangin, a town of 14,000 in Helmand.
But what Steuber heard left him shaking his head in disbelief.
During their meeting in November 2012, Steuber said, Khan mocked the idea that his men shouldn’t have sex with the boys. Without the boys, Khan said, using graphic language, his men would be left with few options other than their own grandmothers.
“Trying doing that day in and day out, working with child molesters,” Steuber, who led the police advisory team at Forward Operating Base Jackson, said afterwards. “It wears on you after a while.”
Steuber’s battle with officials to stop Afghan soldiers, police and interpreters from abusing young boys plays out in the new documentary This is What Winning Looks Like, released by British journalist Ben Anderson and Vice.......
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