Taliban uses boy sex slaves to dupe & kill Afghan police, survivors reveal
Exploiting the pedophilic boy play ‘bacha bazi’, the Taliban
infiltrates the Afghan security forces to attack and kill police
commanders. The tactics were revealed by several officials and survivors
to AFP.
The ‘bacha bazi’ tradition
dates back a long time, and is most widespread in the province of
Uruzgan, central Afghanistan, where ‘bacha bereesh’ - or ‘boys without
beards’ - are said to be quite popular with police.
"The Taliban are sending boys – beautiful boys, handsome boys – to penetrate checkpoints and kill, drug and poison policemen. They have figured out the biggest weakness of police forces: bacha bazi," former Uruzgan Police Chief Ghulam Sakhi Rogh Lewanai told AFP.
There have been scores of such attacks over the past two years.
Between January and April, at least six assaults of the kind were
reported, with hundreds of policemen killed, security and judicial
officials in the region told the agency, adding that "it's easier tackling suicide bombers than bacha attackers."
Plus, the bacha attackers have triggered “deep mistrust within police ranks,” Seddiqullah, a police commander at a checkpoint near the provincial capital, Tarin Kowt, said.
Survivors say the boys are used as honey traps. Twenty-one-year-old policeman Matiullah was the only one left alive in the attack in Dehrawud district last year.
Then, the attacker turned out to be the checkpoint chief’s sex slave, a teenager who went on a shooting spree, murdering seven servicemen – including the chief – in their sleep. Afterwards, he “brought the Taliban inside and poked all the bodies with rifle butts to see if anyone was alive. I pretended to be dead," Matiullah, who now works as a tailor, told AFP.
"As his Taliban accomplices gathered our weapons and ammunition, Zabihullah declared: 'Everyone is dead.'"
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"The Taliban are sending boys – beautiful boys, handsome boys – to penetrate checkpoints and kill, drug and poison policemen. They have figured out the biggest weakness of police forces: bacha bazi," former Uruzgan Police Chief Ghulam Sakhi Rogh Lewanai told AFP.
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Plus, the bacha attackers have triggered “deep mistrust within police ranks,” Seddiqullah, a police commander at a checkpoint near the provincial capital, Tarin Kowt, said.
Survivors say the boys are used as honey traps. Twenty-one-year-old policeman Matiullah was the only one left alive in the attack in Dehrawud district last year.
Then, the attacker turned out to be the checkpoint chief’s sex slave, a teenager who went on a shooting spree, murdering seven servicemen – including the chief – in their sleep. Afterwards, he “brought the Taliban inside and poked all the bodies with rifle butts to see if anyone was alive. I pretended to be dead," Matiullah, who now works as a tailor, told AFP.
"As his Taliban accomplices gathered our weapons and ammunition, Zabihullah declared: 'Everyone is dead.'"
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