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children and and their families for getting their desired children to allow their sexual
harassments. Hence, when children are forcefully included in the practices of Bacha-Bazi
without their consent it is called as coercion in the context of Bacha-Bazi (Mondloch, 2013).
According to the recent surveys some of the most significant factors which are contributing to
the increasing coercion to involve children in Bacha-Bazi are strong social and economical
position of perpetrators, poor and illiterate families of children and gaps of criminal laws for
preventing Bacha-Bazi which are not related to rape and so on (Jones, 2014). According to the
Afghan Independent human rights commission report of 2014, it is stated that male children’s
who are put up into the act of Bacha-Bazi usually belong to very poor families and more than
60% of these children die quite early because of being sexually harassed to a huge extent. 90% of
the male child population who are at risk of undergoing homosexual abuse stated they have been
indulged into this kind of sexual harassment for feeding their family members. It seems that the
Afghanistan allies are day by day turning a blind eye getting swiped under the rug in name of
cultural tradition by increasing the rate of homosexual child abuse. Further, according to a recent
report on Bacha-Bazi from the UNICEF states that many of the middle aged individuals who
participate in the acts of Bacha-Bazi do work for the government of Afghanistan including those
who make public denunciation over the Bacha-Bazi practices (Erdogdu et al 2010. But other
report of UNICEF suggest that afghan authorities are not actively participating on the in Bacha-
Bazi due to imposition of strong legal systems that is making a broach over the concept of child
abuse in the country. Huge security and policy forced have now been imposed over child
trafficking so that rate of homosexual abuse is abolished to a great extent as stated in an article of
“The Guardian”. According to the countries statistical data, the most valuable motive behind the
rise of Bacha-Bazi in the country of Afghanistan is recreation, lust as well s personal interest to
which in about 69.5% perpetrators have agreed upon. Most report from the UNICEF suggest that
literacy is one of the most effective variable that would be beneficial for reducing the prevalence
rate of Bacha-Bazi in Afghanistan. With increased rate of Bacha-Bazi in the country of the
AIHRC is seeking permission from the government to recognize the victimized child by
considering their personal confidentiality level in order to protect them from further abuse and
give them proper protection. Reports from AIHRC suggest that they are playing a great role by
asking the Afghanistan government as well as different civil society organisations to put more
effort in respecting the human rights and accountability to provide justice over the homosexual
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abuse that is destroying the security of the country. 90% respondents in a survey report stated
that due to the practice of weak legislative rules, maximum percentage of the accused
perpetrators and the elites have not yet been prosecuted which is increasing their power of
getting involved in homosexual activities. Survey carried out in different parts of the country
brings out a report where most percentage of people have suggested that lack of security and
presence of different irresponsible armed groups contributed to the expansion of Bacha-Bazi in
Afghanistan. An article given in the last few years stated “The guardian” stated that boys in
Afghanistan are sold like commodities to people belonging to wealthy families for sexual
incongruity. According to the survey report of 2015, 70% percent of the families are deeply
concerned about the child abuse, Bacha-Bazi as well as kidnapping that is totally undeniable and
the parents could not allow their children to move out of their house alone at any time. Report
also suggest that for forcing small male children commit different types of sexual activities for
meeting the sexual satisfaction of the middle aged man they often take up attempts to commit
suicide.
3.3. Bacha-Bazi in Islamic Sharia Law
The Sharia Law could be defined as the body of the Islamic law which defines the legal
framework responsible for regulating public and certain private aspects of life for people living
within an Islam based Legal Systems or nation. According to Sharia Law or Islamic Law
homosexuality is a forbidden practice but people in Afghanistan indulged into Bacha-Bazi
believe it not to be forbidden action according to Sharia Law as they are not falling in love with
the boys being victimized by Bacha-Bazi (Franks, 2013). Since from decades Afghanistan is
considered to be one of the most religious nations of the world where all men and women follow
the Sharia Laws carefully. However, Bacha-Bazi is one of the darkest secrets within the societies
of this nation which is even tried to be kept secret by the local government of the nation. It had
been observed several of times in past that outraged Islamic Militants killed people due to being
homosexual as homosexuality is considered as a sin in Sharia Law and Quran (Erdogdu et al
2016).
However, in case of Bacha-Bazi a whole subculture of Islam within an entire nation
(Afghanistan) could be observed to be addicted to homosexuality not just with gays but also with
younger boys. Analysing the current situation it could be observed that Bacha-Bazi is common