Bacha bazi (sexual slavery / child prostitution in Afghanistan)
Bacha bazi (sometimes known as "bacchá"), an Afghan tradition of keeping boys as concubines as women and girls are forbidden to perform for men.
Noting the public's constant interest in and laughter at the performance, several locally based researchers recorded the lyrics of the songs performed by the two boys (16-year-old Hadji-bacchá and 10-year-old Sayid-bacchá, both from the then Margilan uyezd).
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Afghan interior minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar requested that the US military assume control over DynCorp training centers in response, but the US embassy claimed that this was not "legally possible under the DynCorp contract".
Bacha Khan | Bacha bazi |