$(document).ready( function () { talk_rendercallback({"enabled":"0","islive":"0","eid":6497,"total":"15","discussion":[{"nm":"Denisa Fainis","rs":"0","ms":"I am currently based in Afghanistan, in the south region - Helmand to be exact.\nMoon dust and tents is all I see every single day, and rotary wings is all I hear at night.\nI just saw this documentary last night on AFN, sitting in my room.\nI was shocked, disgusted, enraged, all in the same time. My legs were numb, and I could not move my head, thinking that a few hundreds or less kilometers away, or in that instant second, a Bacha is enduring this.\nIt\'s just heartbreaking, and I feel so useless. and clueless, and just less.\nOne thing that caught my attention, was that when he was in the car, the guy that was recruiting these boys, cursed based on the Qu\'ran, trying to find the boy, once the latter escaped after he was taken to see his "father". That\'s just denigrating, and I would just chop that mother f***er\'s head off.","pt":"May  2, 2010 18:31"},{"nm":"biha","rs":"0","ms":"The sexual perpetrators and abusers of children should be stoned to death. I think, in this case, the punishment, with some torture, would fit the crime. ","pt":"Apr 22, 2010 12:38"},{"nm":"nya","rs":"0","ms":"I found the story quite disturbing. How come the mullahs have not condemned the practice. And where is legal system? I thought people who commit such crimes get stoned according to Sharia. What is scary is that the perpetrators talked so openly about with no fear of persecution. It does not appear that the crimes are being committed by the mullahs, unlike the Catholic paedophile scandals. I never thought that such barbaric existed in the world. I still have nightmares about it. ","pt":"Apr 22, 2010 12:22"},{"nm":"Marius Busauskas","rs":"0","ms":"      This is as sick as it gets. So most of Afganistan per se, and the rest of muslim extreemist is nothing but a bunch of sick creatures (rather same like Vatican rulers who hide certain individuals instead of putting them on legal trials), they are some kind of diversion from Homo Sapiens branch. \n      In 80\'s, the Soviet Union sent 18-22year old untrained kids into a war, eventually they had to pull out. Now another Union with the "best weapons on earth", billions-to-trillions of $, and deaths of young well trained men and women still contemplating when to pull out. Looks like science fiction. ARE WE GOING TO CHANGE A country which lived certain way for centuries into a democracy overnight???????          \n     That whole Taliban stronghold mountain region should get couple atomic bombs in there and make it completely uninhabitable. The rest of the country, with "boy molestation" as standard (girls/women are lower cast there by default), with poppy growing fields, with suicide bombers and their training camps....they don\'t contribute anything to the world economy (desides drugs) and was/is/will be the source of evil things. \n     Those sick bastards should get a "Berlin wall with mine field" build around those regions/countries who don\'t wanna live by global rules and they should not be let out like animals in the zoo. The source of too many problems, eating up too much of global resources.  ","pt":"Apr 22, 2010 00:16"},{"nm":"Helen Piechotta","rs":"0","ms":"child abuse is a silent evil,it affects everyone, in poor neighborhoods, it encourages crime since the abused child feels worthless, in well to do neighborhoods, it is done silently and cleverly, in schools, playgrounds, you name it, wherever children abound, many times the abusers are intellectuals, which makes it easier for them to abuse. Parents MUST keep aware of this problem and never trust a man who is overly friendly or makes an attempt to take any type of interest in your child; before you become aware, the child may have already been abused. The world is an evil place, and becoming more so, it is up to the parents to keep watch on their children at all times. They are innocent, the abusers are not. As our teenagers are pumped daily with shows of sadism, violence and cruelty, the media is teaching them to lose their ability to feel the emotions that make us human. In an attempt to make a quick buck, our children will suffer in the long run. God help those helpless children in Afghanistan and all over the world.","pt":"Apr 21, 2010 21:33"},{"nm":"Aziz Budri","rs":"0","ms":"After reading Prudence\'s very wise observations (comment #8), if permitted, I would like to continue my comments. \nThe film maker, Mr. Qurishy, is the biggest exploiter of Bacha Bazi. His producers in London must have paid him a great deal of money to produce this film and I am sure he and his organization are going to profit from it immensely. Listening to the characters in the film in their native language and the body language, anyone with knowledge of both instruments, can tell that it was a well s\cripted and well rehearsed play. Not a journalistic masterpiece. If Mr. Qurishy is such a great journalist, why isn\'t he focusing his attention to the war, to the killing of innocent children, women and men on a daily basis, to the drug culture, and finally to the destruction of an entire nation both by indigenous and foreign forces. For the past 31 years,not just innocent little boys, but the entire nation have been raped repeatedly by the proxy wars of the super powers and direct intervention of the neighboring countries, and their puppet governments and warlords.\nPerhaps these stories don\'t sell as well as Bachs Bazi. He must have learned from the writer of the "Kite Runner."\nA very boring book but sold very well because of a homosexual scene, in a puritanical Islamic nation. \nThe film maker, by showing the faces of the boys and their families, in his own turn, as wisely observed by Prudence, have committed horrific acts of his own. He was a virtual participant in these tragic acts. If he had any zeal, he should have sacrificed his own life to save at least the 11 year old boy. On the contrary, he facilitated it. So why is he any different than his friend Satar, the enslaver of the boys, who was in charge of arranging the scenes for his film? Satar, now, a car dealer,for lack of a proper term is a "retard." If he were a commander during the Soviet occupation, he must have had a head injury, because he did not sound very smart.\n\n\n\n\n ","pt":"Apr 21, 2010 19:48"},{"nm":"Twiss Butler","rs":"0","ms":"Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy at least acknowledges that Bacha Bazi is harmful to boys.  As Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, and in reports to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, she was blind to the harm to the status of women and to women as individuals, often victime of sexual abuse as children, from the practice of prostitution. But as we are reminded by the recent uproar over the abuse of boys and silence concerning the abuse of girls and women by Catholic priests, it is only sexual abuse of men and boys that really matters.","pt":"Apr 21, 2010 18:46"},{"nm":"Prudence","rs":"0","ms":" Not only was this story beyond shocking but the complete disregard for human life, the fact that these men were smiling and enjoying the entertainment which included rape of children while they were all being filmed .  SHAME on the producers of the documentary for using the young boy as bait and a guinea pig to glorify their story. Could this story not have been told WITHOUT actual footage of  your setting up a  innocent, trusting very little boy and filming  his journey through the hell he was about to experience??   I sure hope the obvious mention that the story\'s producers " gave contributions" to the boy\'s family afterwards really clears all of you of the shame you should be feeling now. Seeing that boy returned to his family now scarred, most likely raped  was really worth getting your story, wasn\'t it??? Good job boys!!!\nWhat you did using him did nothing more than make that family and child fear for their lives and have to be relocated. ","pt":"Apr 21, 2010 17:21"},{"nm":"Lehua Keohokapu","rs":"0","ms":"I was ignorant about this subject, I had no clue. When I watched the documentary I was in total shock. The evil that people do is very disturbing. It doesn\'t matter who it is or what country you are from. This action profoundly affects the human race in a very bad way. We are all part of the same earth. My sincere prayers to the children and their family.","pt":"Apr 21, 2010 17:11"},{"nm":"Nodie Sullivan","rs":"0","ms":"It will be interesting to see if the international response to Bacha Bazi is different that it is to other forms of sexual slavery as BB involves only young boys. Sexual slavery in other countries targets young girls in a greater percentage than boys. In Bacha Bazi the young boys seem to become local "rock stars" which gives them status and power as well as financial support of families. I was truly shocked that most of the military commanders had their own boys.","pt":"Apr 21, 2010 15:59"},{"nm":"Joe","rs":"0","ms":"It looks like homosexualty is huge in Afganistan. From an outsider it looks like in these extreme islamic countries they have a  jail mentality. In a sea of men, the weakest are going to be woman. They keep the women down. They must wear all of that garb and cover themselves. So in response they dress the boys up like women and watch them dance and have sex with them. I saw this in Egypt wear the men where dancing around and from my western point of few it all looked pretty gay to me. You call it what you want, but it appears that Islam in this form produces homosexality just like the Catholic priest hood produces another form of sexual defiant. ","pt":"Apr 21, 2010 14:00"},{"nm":"Rev.Antoinette Pezet","rs":"0","ms":"For  many years now the UN has documented the human trade for profits and entertainment of the powerful expoiting humans for Sex and Labor, a slavery basically of youth abd women, with little effort by an international community to address this legally and ethically as a huge human rights violation.\n\nThis abuse along with the abuse of the earth and the commonwealth for profits disregarding the social and environmental damages inly to serve the craven traditions or interests if rich powerful men.\n\nI believe that such abuse and xploitation is part and parcel of the social systems which preserve class, poverty, and the human helplessness to challenge the system which the lower class has struggled with from ancient to modern times; We need to move away from the social model based on exploitation, competition and disrespect for life over a respect for property, position and traditional gender status.\n\nWomen and children and men and the earth all suffer from this unethicaol.\nsituation.","pt":"Apr 21, 2010 13:26"},{"nm":"CJ","rs":"0","ms":"Oprah needs to air this on her show to give it more publicity. Education and exposure are the only things that will stop this. The hatred of women also still goes unheeded in that country--more needs to be done for the women of the Muslim world to begin a women\'s revolution to stop the misogyny from continuing another generation...","pt":"Apr 21, 2010 03:13"},{"nm":"Aziz Budri","rs":"0","ms":"As someone who was born and raised in Afghanistan and has traveled extensively around the country, I was shocked, deeply disturbed, saddened,and enraged. Even if a fraction of what I saw is true, the perpetrators of this heinous crime must be caught and placed before a firing squad. Although, I believe parts of the story was staged for the benefit of Mr. Qurishy - to make his documentary more credible, it seems, however, that the practice has returned with a full vengence. Bacha Bazi was practiced before, but no one, particularly the Bacha, would talk about it publicly. To admit to something like that was the ultimate dishonor not only for the boy, but for his family too. Once the Bacha was exposed, the family would have dealt with him in one of two ways: banish him and send him abroad permanently or kill him. Period! I don\'t think the Afghan society has become so modern to boast about the practice of Bacha Bazi, particularly the Bacha, as I mentioned above. If anything, after 31 years of war it has been set back one to two centuries    ","pt":"Apr 21, 2010 00:29"},{"nm":"Mikki McDonald","rs":"0","ms":"What can I do to help stop this?","pt":"Apr 20, 2010 22:58"}]}); });