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US troops stationed in Afghanistan came to the realization that some Afghan commanders were sexually abusing local boys and though they often heard the boys screaming, the US Army told them to ignore it, a
New York Times report says.
"At night we can hear them [Afghan boys] screaming, but we're not allowed to do anything about it," Lance Corporal Gregory Buckley Jr. reportedly told his father Gregory Buckley Sr before being killed in 2012.
Buckley Sr said he told his son to tell his commanders about these incidents. "My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it's their culture," he
told NYT.
What Buckley Jr described to his father resembles
Bacha bazi, an illegal practice that involves sexual abuse of prepubescent and adolescent boys.
One more US officer, a former lance corporal recalled a terrible incident when he entered a room in a base and saw three or four men lying with children between them.
"I'm not a hundred percent sure what was happening under the sheet, but I have a pretty good idea of what was going on," he told
NYT on condition of anonymity.
Another witness of similar practices was Dan Quinn, a former special forces captain. He witnessed several cases of Afghan militia abusing local children, boys and girls.
Comment: From the Wikipedia page of the Oxford 'society' that Cameron apparently did this for, we read: We're reminded of the initiation rituals to the all-male 'Skull and Bones' cult at Yale University that the Bushes and John Kerry were members of.
While #PigGate is producing some hilarious reactions among the British public, let's not forget that the debauchery practised by Cameron and his kind are indicative of the psychology of those in power. The cost, to them, of wearing a 'mask of sanity', as psychologist Harvey Cleckley termed it, is that they must regularly take 'vacations into filth' to relieve themselves of the 'burden'- from their perspective - of pretending to be human.
Regarding the initiation rituals of various 'elites', they serve the purpose of 'binding' them to secret societies, clubs and cults that both reward and control their subjects over the course of their future careers. It may be worth considering whether this information is being made public now in order to exert pressure on Cameron and his government; a little reminder, perhaps, that 'we can destroy you'...
Cameron, top, second from left, as a member of Oxford University's 'Bullingdon Club'