Daily Caller article: http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/16/us-troops-taught-for-years-child-sex-abuse-is-culturally-accepted-in-afghanistan/
Pentagon report: https://media.defense.gov/2017/Nov/15/2001843802/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2018-018_CHILD_SEXUAL_ABUSE_V2_508_R_REDACTED.PDF
From the Daily Caller article:
"Interviews of troops from the report suggest that military officials didn’t really care much about stopping child sex abuse.
“In some cases, the interviewees explained that they, or someone whom they knew, 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, or that it was best to ignore the situation and to let the local police handle it,” the report noted.
One interviewee said after he reported an Afghan commander who abused little boys to his chain of command, he was told: “It was out of our control” and “There’s nothing we can do about it” and “It’s their country.”
“Soldiers [were] told to ignore it and drive on,” another interviewee stated.
The cultural presentation sailors had to undergo stated that pedophilia is an issue in Afghanistan, but added that readers should “control and overcome any frustration caused by cultural differences that they may experience during their deployments.”
Additionally, the presentation advised sailors that they should ask their chains of command what to do in specific circumstances.
Marine Corps cultural training told Marines that they “need to understand the culture, accept it without making judgments, and figure out how to work with it or around it to accomplish your mission.”
The training also said that sometimes Afghan men joke about pedophilia, but Marines should just ignore it and “move on.”
Marines were not given any guidance about what they should do if they ever encounter instances of pedophilia.
The inspector general’s finding was damning. Effectively, the military only started to care about the problem of pedophilia and abuse after media outlets started reporting on the issue.
“We determined that the DoD did not conduct training for personnel on identifying, responding to, or reporting instances of child sexual abuse involving ANDSF personnel before 2015,” the report noted.
While troops have been told to report human rights violations since 2011, child sex abuse was not declared as a violation until September 2016. Between 2010 and 2016, 16 cases of child sex abuse were reported to the Pentagon, but because no proper reporting mechanisms existed, the exact number of cases is unknown.
The first explicit guidance to report child sex abuse only came about in September 2015, following a report from The New York Times, which interviewed former soldiers. They stated they were told to ignore child sex abuse, despite hearing the screams of boys being sexually abused by high-level Afghan officials on U.S. military installations."
Remember this soldier's story from 2015?: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0
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Terraeri1 ago
This is nothing new. This stuff is more out in the open in Muslim countries. India/Pakistan/Iraq/Afghanistan.
It is very common to see men walking off with kids, specifically little boys. As men and women aren't allowed to be in public together unless they are related, it has bred this environment where no one would bat an eyelid at a man and boy walking off together. Whilst my brother was serving in Iraq at the Palace, they all knew who the perverts are because they held pinkies together, some 2 grown men who are obviously in a gay relationship but he said it was common to see men holding pinkies with little boys. Whilst it is disgusting to us, how do you manage a situation like that? A western Army going into foreign territory to an already hostile population that accept this practice as part of life?
Before anyone says anything about race or whatever bullshit... I will be the first one to say. Yes, a lot of pedos are white. BUT, in our society it is openly denounced, against MOST peoples principles. We are fighting it whilst they accept it.
There have been so many documentaries aired here in the UK about it, But people are being beaten into a corner because there is obviously a cultural issue with Islamic countries, but any attempt to address the problem is always cut down with cries of racism. People who regard themselves as feminist, hate Trump because of the Audiotape, but will be the first cunt to say "islam is the religion of peace" post-terror attack. The have seen the same information as I have, they have seen child marriages, rapes, murders,molestation PRESENTED AS EPIDEMIC. But not once would they denounce it as it opposes the narrative that they have been taught is "Right and PC" The world is literally confused out of their minds.
So glad i don't mind being alone in my thought processes. Sheeple everywhere
think- ago
Yes, it is downright crazy that these issues can't be addressed and those who do are labeled 'racist'.
There are racists of course, but most people who would like to talk about it aren't. Feminists who gladly talk about sexual harrassment at work (and rightly so), but claim that raping children (aka 'child marriages') or genital mutilation of girls have to be seen as 'cultural difference' and accepted, are out of their minds.