Silk Road forums
Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: LeisureLass on July 17, 2012, 01:47 pm
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http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/07/12/3544562.htm
"Would you hand over your daughter to pay a debt; or even to save your own life? That's the position faced by many farmers in Afghanistan - a country where women and young girls are seen as tradable goods. While the world has been horrified to see an Afghan woman executed for alleged adultery, it's now clear that Afghanistan Government policies, supported by NATO and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), are fuelling the trade in children.
Over the past few years the Afghan Government, encouraged by NATO and ISAF, has embarked on a massive eradication program to destroy poppy fields in the most popular growing areas. They tell farmers to grow other crops like maize and wheat.
The strategy is well intentioned, but it creates a major problem for farming families, who in their desperation have borrowed money from traffickers to grow their crops. When crops are destroyed the farmers can't pay back the loans. As a result the traffickers seek compensation, telling farmers: "give us your daughters or we will kill you". Girls as young as six and young boys are sold into sex-slavery, to save their fathers."
And yet the DEA's focus is on the non-violent, peaceful trade of Silk Road. :-\
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yh the afghans are a bunch of kiddie fiddlers, for them its called bacha bazi
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:'(