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Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Introduction and Summary Dancing Boys of Afghanistan is a documentary about men from Afghanistan using bacha bazi as a sexual act against boys. The bacha bazi was a practice used to entertain wealthy merchants, warlords and military commanders that leads them to have sex with boys who dance in public or privately. There is a rise in number for “Bacha Bazi” dance against little boys. Grown Afghanistan men pick up poor boys on the street in order to train them in the sexually exploitive dance called “Bacha Bazi”. The Afghanistan police and law enforcement are currently going after people for using this sexual exploited dance but are still sometimes involved in this practice.
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