Bacha Bazi is a very serious problem over in Afghanistan yet the U.S. military is not allowed to do anything about it. They are told to just brush it off and pretend like it didn't happen. Bacha Bazi in Afghanistan actually translates to boy play. Although our military officials are not over in Afghanistan primarily to stop child molestation, it is a big problem and something should be done about it. Capturing young boys, chaining them to beds, holding them captive, and using them as sex slaves is wrong in so many ways and it needs to be stopped. Some military leaders have tried to stand up against it and have tried to change it, but they cant do anything about in Afghanistan because over there it is viewed as a custom.
At night U.S. soldiers have been able to hear screams from boys ringing out in the night, and they cant do anything about it. Some soldiers have even found young boys chained to beds yet they are not allowed to free them. The worst thing is that Afghanistan soldiers can have young boys held as captives on military bases. Although they are on a U.S. military base, the U.S. is helping to train Afghanistan soldiers, and they are allowed keep the boys with them and U.S. soldiers just have to turn their heads. This is not right in any way. If the U.S. is going to help train Afghanistan soldiers they should have to follow U.S. rules. If any sexual abuse involving little boys is found they should be punished for it. If they are not punished more and more little boys will keep disappearing and it will become even more of a problem than it already is.
Boys held captive do not know that U.S. soldiers are not allowed to do anything about Bacha Bazi. All that they know is that U.S. soldiers have done nothing about them getting raped and abused so they retaliate on American soldiers. In one case a 17 year old boy escaped from an Afghanistan soldiers room and retaliated by taking a gun and shooting several soldiers. A few of the soldiers were American and they had done nothing wrong to deserve to get shot. If nothing is done about Bacha Bazi, this kind of thing will continue. More soldiers lives can be saved because retaliations like this wont occur anymore, and younger boys lives can be saved from abuse. It is a serious problem and U.S. soldiers need to be allowed to step in and do something about it. If not relations over there could get very bad. More problems can be started when everything could have been stopped when it was a smaller problem. It needs to get fixed now.
