mwguy@infosec.pub to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoAfghanistan: 'Tea is sometimes all I have to give my hungry baby'www.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1261arrow-down16
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minus-squaredeft@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoHow? I’m genuinely curious how you understand an Arabic word being the US term for this well documented historic cultural fact that predates the creation of the United States
minus-squareLinkerbaan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down10·11 months agoThe Taliban actually outlawed that shit. The Americans promoted it. But keep not watching the video that adresses your very point.
minus-squaredeft@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-211 months agoThey do not enforce the outlaw at all. Also saying the US promoted it is absolutely bullshit we know of the war crimes committed by the US. That’s not one. Specifically the opposite https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/american-military-told-troops-to-ignore-afghan-allies-child-sex-abuse-called-bacha-bazi.html https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-is-bacha-bazi https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-dancing-boys-of-afghanistan_b_1260667 https://www.npr.org/2018/01/24/580433652/how-the-u-s-military-ignored-child-sexual-abuse-in-afghanistan-for-years
How? I’m genuinely curious how you understand an Arabic word being the US term for this well documented historic cultural fact that predates the creation of the United States
The Taliban actually outlawed that shit. The Americans promoted it.
But keep not watching the video that adresses your very point.
They do not enforce the outlaw at all.
Also saying the US promoted it is absolutely bullshit we know of the war crimes committed by the US. That’s not one.
Specifically the opposite
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/american-military-told-troops-to-ignore-afghan-allies-child-sex-abuse-called-bacha-bazi.html
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-is-bacha-bazi
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-dancing-boys-of-afghanistan_b_1260667
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/24/580433652/how-the-u-s-military-ignored-child-sexual-abuse-in-afghanistan-for-years