Zo wist het Pentagon dat Afghaanse troepen kinderen misbruiken, zoals de jongens die als 'toyboy' door de militairen seksueel worden gebruikt......... Volgens het Pentagon (en Buitenlandse Zaken) is dit in Afghanistan een cultureel gebruik en moeten de militairen van de VS maar wegkijken als ze getuige zijn van het e.e.a.........
Volgens RT die dit bericht bracht, is de Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Recontruction* (SIGAR) verantwoordelijk voor het rapport waarin deze zaken naar voren worden gebracht........ SIGAR is een VS overheidsorgaan dat onafhankelijk rapporteert over reconstructie projecten en andere VS activiteiten in Afghanistan
Deze kindermisbruik zaken komen keer op keer terug in de media (ja zelfs in de reguliere (massa-) media, vreemd genoeg is er geen westerse politicus die zich hier druk om maakt en de VS aan de paal nagelt voor het wegkijken en tolereren van dit vreselijke geweld tegen kinderen...... Niet zo vreemd daar bijvoorbeeld ook het Nederlandse leger destijds in Uruzgan en de politietrainers in Kunduz hiervan op de hoogte moeten zijn geweest en moeten hebben weggekeken......... Sterker nog: zelfs nu zijn er nog 100 Nederlandse militaire en politietrainers werkzaam in Afghanistan en ook zij moeten op de hoogte zijn van deze feiten.......
Wat dat laatste betreft: het SIGAR rapport spreekt over de verleden tijd, echter reken maar dat dit misbruik nog steeds plaatsvindt,....... Voorts stelt men in het rapport dat wat bekend is, hoogstwaarschijnlijk maar het topje van de spreekwoordelijke ijsberg is.........
Pentagon knew Afghan forces committed child abuse, but kept funding them – declassified report
Published time: 24 Jan,
2018 07:16 Edited time: 24 Jan, 2018 09:03
Children
gesture near an Afghan police checkpoint in the Nangarhar province,
December 19, 2014 / Lucas Jackson / Reuters
The
Pentagon funded Afghan military and security forces despite knowing
that some of them were involved in numerous human rights abuses,
including sexual assaults on children, a government watchdog says.
The
stunning revelation came in the form of a declassified report by the
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a
US government agency tasked with delivering independent oversight of
reconstruction projects and activities in Afghanistan.
The
63-page document –
parts of which were heavily redacted – maintains that the Obama
administration funded the Afghan military, which it knew was
committing human rights abuses, including sexual assaults on
children. It was composed back in June 2017, but was cleared for
publication on January 18.
The
Pentagon funded 12 Afghan units complicit in 14 human rights
incidents in 2013, the SIGAR report said, adding that nine additional
units received US funding with some limitations on the use of the
money.
A
law in the US called the Leahy Law forbids the US military and the
State Department from funding foreign military or police units in
cases where there is reliable evidence that the units have
carried out gross violations of human rights.
Despite
the Pentagon and the State Department being aware of confirmed human
rights violations committed by the Afghan forces, a legal loophole in
the DoD’s Appropriations Act allows the Leahy Law to be bypassed
when support for the units in question is essential for a “national
security concern.”
According
to the SIGAR report, which was due to declassification in 2042, 22 of
the 75 violations reported were classified at a level
above “secret” and
could not be disclosed, while seven involved “child
sexual assault.” A
further 46 involved other gross violations of human rights, including
extrajudicial killings and torture of prisoners. The violations
occurred from 2010 to August 2016.
While
composing the document, the watchdog interviewed 37 individuals, 24
of whom stated they knew about children being sexually exploited by
the Afghan forces.
This
revelation effectively echoes last year’s Pentagon
report,
which admitted that US military personnel deploying to Afghanistan
had been taught that sexual abuses against children – known in
Afghanistan as ‘bacha
bazi’, literally ‘boy
play’ –
was a “culturally
accepted practice.”
Service
members interviewed for the report said they were told that “nothing
could be done about child sexual abuse because of Afghanistan’s
status as a sovereign nation, that it was not a priority for the
command,” the
report says. Some other comments included remarks “it
was out of our control,” and “this
is Afghanistan.”
Yet
two US soldiers questioned by SIGAR also stated they had no training
about reporting abuse, despite hearing or witnessing it. Another
service soldier told the watchdog that he and his platoon heard
sounds of Afghan men and screams of a boy that “sounded
like sex.” And
while they understood this was a likely case of sexual abuse of a
child, the service members only laughed about it and did not report
the incident.
“This
type of abuse, appallingly, is a common practice,” Senator
Leahy (D-Vt.) commented on NBC
News. “In
fact, it is a virtual certainty that it is grossly underreported. The
report also revealed that DOD circumvented the [Defense] Leahy Law by
using 'notwithstanding' authority without notifying Congress, even
providing aid to Afghan units implicated in child abuse. That is
inexcusable,” he
said.
Meanwhile,
the report concludes, “the
full extent of child sexual assault committed by Afghan security
forces may never be known.”
=================================* De grote VS truc: je gooit een land in puin (goed voor het militair-industrieel complex) neemt voor een periode het bewind over en laat VS bedrijven kapitalen verdienen om de boel op te ruimen en te reconstrueren, 'een win win situatie'..... (om nog eens een achterlijke uitdrukking te gebruiken)
