“Bachabozi” (sex with boys) is another legacy of Mullah Omar, the founder of the Taliban group.
Author: Information Agency “Muqovimat” (Resistance)
The immorality and "bachabozi" of the Taliban have a long history, and the leader of this group, Mullah Muhammad Omar, has also been accused of committing these acts. Karnil Imam, a Pakistani intelligence officer and one of the founders of the Taliban movement, wrote about this in his book The Taliban Project in Afghanistan:
“What really surprised me was that among the soldiers of Mullah Omar, there was a boy who, unlike other students of the mosque, was clean, had long hair and blue eyes, and wore a Kandahar hat. I inquired about his personality. Jag Mullah, one of Mullah Omar's commanders, told me that this boy was one of Mullah Omar's students and his special bodyguard.
I asked: "Mullah Sahib! Is this really his special student?"
He replied with a laugh, "Doesn't Mullah Sahib Omar have a heart?"
All his companions laughed out loud at his answer.
When we arrived in the Maiwand district (of Kandahar province), we were informed that the camp of one of the Taliban commanders, who was also my friend, was attacked by Ustad Abdulalim, one of the commanders of Ustad Abdulrab Rasul Sayyaf. This Taliban friend of mine, who belongs to the great Nurzai tribe of Helmand and Kandahar, became very angry and ordered Mullah Abdulsattar and his other comrades to launch a counterattack.
During this clash, 17 people were killed, including the commander of Sayyaf and Haji Navruzi, as well as Mullah Abdulsattar and the (handsome beardless) assistant of Mullah Muhammad Omar.
The murder of the beardless bacha of Mullah Omar provoked a response from the Reform Committee.
Mullah Omar wept a lot because of the death of this young man (beardless bacha) and vowed to avenge his blood.
Since the leader of this group kept a beardless bacha and had sexual relations with young children, this is one of the actions and deeds that are not taken seriously in the thinking and ideology of the Taliban, and each of them, without being responsible to anyone, keeps small children in their outposts and barracks and use them for sexual purposes".
If we look at this mindset and outlook from a different angle, the Taliban have rebellious lust and a self-indulgent ego, so they use any means to satisfy their lust. Sometimes they also rape girls, children of religious schools, chaste women, and dumb animals.
In 2015, New York-based Human Rights Watch announced that the Taliban had recruited a number of Afghan children since mid-2015.
According to media reports and human rights institutions inside and outside the country, over the past decade and a half, "bachabozi" has taken place not only in Taliban schools but also in their military ranks.
A number of domestic and foreign media have written materials and news on this subject that will not fit in this article.
The reader might think that this article is related to the author's hostility towards the Taliban. But it's not. You know that after this group came to power, several cases of rape, adultery, debauchery, and “bachabozi” became a media trend, and social page users, directly and indirectly, criticized these actions of the Taliban even with humor and poetry.
In the past week alone, there have been four documented cases with videos showing the Taliban sleeping with teenage boys and sexually abusing the women.
The most famous case is the publication of a video showing Mullah Ahmad Akhund, head of the Breshna company in the city of Kabul, sleeping with a 21-year-old boy. This video stirred up the media space, and a number of social media users criticized the closure of educational centers after the publication of videotapes of rape, debauchery, and other immoral acts of the Taliban, and the prohibition of women from work and travel by the Taliban. One of them wrote: “Women have no right to study and work according to Talibani Islam, but Taliban men can easily commit adultery in the offices of the Taliban Islamic Emirate. This is a double standard".
Another case of Taliban rape reported in the media was the rape of a nurse working at a clinic in the Burka district of Baghlan province by Nemat Fateh, the head of the Taliban administration in the area. However, the rapist was released from prison a few days later and returned to work.
Allahyar, also known as Damullah Muaz, a Taliban intelligence deputy in the Khan Chaharbagh district of Faryab province, was recently arrested and imprisoned. He was accused of having sexual relations with a teenage boy. An informed source shared a video with the media of the process of arresting a Taliban security officer. However, Damullah Muaz was also released from prison after several days of detention on the orders of the Taliban Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, Mawlawi Ataullah Omari.
Another video showed an online sex scene of Sayed Farooq, a member of the Taliban in Faryab province, with a woman. Sayed Farooq was arrested in 2018 by the security forces of the former Afghan government on charges of transporting mines and explosives and sentenced to 18 years in prison. After the collapse of the government, Sayed Farooq was released from prison and now works with the Taliban in Faryab.
The Taliban, commit dozens of acts against Islam, such as adultery, bachabozi, murder, theft, and embezzlement, but not one of them was found guilty, but on the contrary, after a few days they get out of prison and continue their work in the ranks of this group.