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Bacha bazi was outlawed during the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan period. [13] [14] [15] 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 ...
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan is a 2010 documentary film produced by Clover Films and directed by Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi about the practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan. The 52-minute documentary premiered in the UK at the Royal Society of Arts on March 29, 2010, [ 1 ] and aired on PBS Frontline in the United States on April 20.
The film uncovers a less-than-seamless transition, revealing rampant sexual abuse and killing of young boys by Afghan police commanders and other adult men as part of a cultural practice called bacha bazi, addiction to drugs such as opiates and marijuana, corruption, insider attacks and double agents inside the Afghan security forces, and false ...
The Afghan custom of bacha bazi, a form of pederastic sexual slavery, child sexual abuse and pedophilia which is traditionally practiced in various provinces of Afghanistan between older men and young adolescent "dancing boys", was also forbidden under the six-year rule of the Taliban régime. [170]
Bacha posh (Pashto: باشا بوش, lit. 'dressed up as a boy', Dari: بچه پوشی) [1] is a practice in Afghanistan in which some families will pick a daughter to live and behave as a boy.
Najibullah Quraishi is an Afghan journalist and filmmaker. [1] [2] [3] Quraishi worked as a journalist and presenter on radio and television in Afghanistan for ten years and has a degree in journalism. Quraishi is Clover Films chief investigator for projects in Asia and the Arab states.
These factions had helped spread madrasa, attended by many of the Kandahar Taliban, throughout the southern regions of Afghanistan. [47] The practice of bacha bazi by warlords was one of the key factors in Omar mobilizing the Taliban. [48]
A number of women from China, Iran, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Tajikistan have been trafficked for prostitution into Afghanistan. [11] Afghan women are also trafficked to Pakistan, Iran and India for sexual exploitation. [12] Child prostitution in the form of bacha bazi have also been reported in the country. [11]