Oct 16, 2007Quickie Link: The Dancing Boys of the North
By vanrozenheim
(Afghanistan) - Wealthy strongmen recruit adolescent boys for entertainment and sex, with the local authorities powerless to stop the practice. Allah Daad explained how the boys are enticed into the arrangement. “First we select boys in the village and later on we try to trick them into coming with us,” he said. “Some of them stay with us for money; they get a monthly allowance, and in return we can have them any time we want. They don’t stay with us all the time - they can do their own jobs and then just come to parties with us.” If a boy refuses to become a bacha bereesh, he said, there is little a man can do to make him. “We can’t force them,” he insisted. “Only the very powerful can have boys with them all the time.”
