Child sex slaves used to kill Afghan police

This photograph taken on April 27, 2016, shows Najeebullah, 18, who survived a Taliban insider attack carried out by a bacha or child sex slave, smoking a shisha in Tarin Kot. - AFP

TARIN KOT (Afghanistan):  The Taliban are using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the pervasive practice of “bacha bazi” - paedophilic boy play - to infiltrate security ranks, officials and survivors of such assaults told AFP.  

The ancient custom is prevalent across Afghanistan, but nowhere does it seem as entrenched as in the province of Uruzgan, where “bacha bereesh” - or boys without beards - widely become objects of lustful attraction for powerful police commanders.