Posted on Sep 21, 2015
How would you respond to hearing Afghan boys screaming as they are being raped by Afghani military personnel with whom you work?
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KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.
“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=1
“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=1
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While I have not served in Afghanistan and do not know their culture nor their customs, no sane person can tell me what is happening here is OK and that our military has said to ignore this. The Marine in the picture, his father believes he died as a result of the Marines allowing this abuse to continue.
Does anyone on RP believe this is OK or has anyone know about it? Personally I'd want to do the same thing CPT Quinn but I think I would have killed him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=0
Does anyone on RP believe this is OK or has anyone know about it? Personally I'd want to do the same thing CPT Quinn but I think I would have killed him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=0
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