According to the Associated Press, “Homosexuals in Afghanistan are forced to live in fear and secrecy to avoid being kidnapped, robbed, beaten up, blackmailed, arbitrarily arrested in what police describe as ‘honey traps,’ and murdered by relatives in ‘honor killings.'”

There is also the widespread sexual abuse of Young Boys in a culturally accepted practice known as bacha bazi, which translates to “playing with boys” in English. The one good thing that can be said about the Taliban is that they killed anyone who attempted to keep a boy as a personal sex slave, but unfortunately, this isn’t the case at all with our newfound “allies” in the Afghan government.

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