Taliban uses child sex slaves to kill Afghan police

TARIN KOT, Afghanistan: The Taliban is using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the pervasive practice of “bacha bazi”—pedophilic boy play—to infiltrate security ranks, multiple officials and survivors of such assaults told Agence France-Presse.

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.