Afghanistan
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Living With Terrorists
Afghanistan is dangerous for everyone. You only have to do the wrong thing and the punishments range from public floggings and corporal punishment to long-term imprisonment, amputations, and public executions. If you read the news, you’ll have heard all the stories.
Some famous YouTube videos about Afghanistan present Western soldiers' evidence of witnessing a lot of homosexuality in US/Afghanistan army camps. Maybe, but that is nowhere near the Taliban.
The media also point out the sexual interest some Afghanistan men have in young boys and exposes 'Child Slavery', also known as Bacha bazi. This is not homosexuality. This is some strange perversion built on a pederastic culture that is specific to some parts of the region.
Trafficked Children , male and female, are also reported as being forced into prostitution in secret brothels within Afghanistan - especially in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif - as well as to Iran and Pakistan. NGOs report that over the past year, increasing numbers of boys were trafficked internally.
But then there are the gay lives that are not to be tolerated. The LGBT community lives in constant terror of being discovered. If you are caught acting ‘gay’ or shaving your beard, you are open to beatings and they can be severe and immediate. You might feel safe sipping a tea in a cafe with gay friends, you are not acting gay or showing any PDA, but someone has said something about you and suddenly the thug-police arrive and arrest you. If you are not connected, anything could happen and you could be in real trouble with a death sentence possible depending on the ‘judge’. And if death is brought to you, you can expect humiliation, torture and rape first.
"If you are gay, you must get married. Your wife suffers from not having a partner who truly loves her. You suffer for not having the partner You love.
And so we live."
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To survive, you have to get married, have children and hide in the closet. Repress your sexuality or die. As a lesbian, you’ll be forced into marriage, and then raped at the whim of your husband. As a woman, you have no rights. If you are trans, you’d better grow a beard, wear male clothes and behave like a man or beatings will follow. There is no escape for most. The country is surrounded by criminal regimes that boast about the terrorism they inflict on gay people.
When the media discusses Afghanistan, they rarely talk about LGBT horror stories. While the media rightly highlights the oppression of women, the specific, targeted extermination of gay lives remains a silent genocide. Even in the LGBT main stream media, the fate of the LGBT community in countries like this are generally ignored, or if there is a story, you have to scroll past the Mr Gay [name your country] and which celebrity said something about another.
We need to do better.
Under no circumstances should you pass the borders into this country. If you must, then get in touch with organizations that might help you prepare for your ‘safety’. We have listed some links below where you can read some horror stories and also find out more about this terrorist regime.
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