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US soldier fights his dishonorable discharge from Army for beating Child rapist

This is typically the land of America. The good people are silenced and the bad people can propagate war and bloodshed. The Americans are led by war mongerers. If America had not interfered in Afghanistan in 1980's we wouldn't even see the scale of wahabi terrorism present today. Thanks to their hawks the entire world is screwed, starting with the muslim world.
Typical ? How about we find abhorrent and disgusting things in your Pakistan and say those things are typical ? Come to think of it, many of those things are indeed typical.

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Are you sure? It's hard to believe that the US Congress wasn't aware of all this

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.”

Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally “boy play,” and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records.

The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages — and doing little when they began abusing children.

“The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,” said Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain who beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave. “But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did — that was something village elders voiced to me.”

The policy of instructing soldiers to ignore child sexual abuse by their Afghan allies is coming under new scrutiny, particularly as it emerges that service members like Captain Quinn have faced discipline, even career ruin, for disobeying it.

After the beating, the Army relieved Captain Quinn of his command and pulled him from Afghanistan. He has since left the military.

Four years later, the Army is also trying to forcibly retire Sgt. First Class Charles Martland, a Special Forces member who joined Captain Quinn in beating up the commander.

“The Army contends that Martland and others should have looked the other way (a contention that I believe is nonsense),” Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who hopes to save Sergeant Martland’s career, wrote last week to the Pentagon’s inspector general.

In Sergeant Martland’s case, the Army said it could not comment because of the Privacy Act.

When asked about American military policy, the spokesman for the American command in Afghanistan, Col. Brian Tribus, wrote in an email: “Generally, allegations of child sexual abuse by Afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic Afghan criminal law.” He added that “there would be no express requirement that U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan report it.” An exception, he said, is when rape is being used as a weapon of war.

The American policy of nonintervention is intended to maintain good relations with the Afghan police and militia units the United States has trained to fight the Taliban. It also reflects a reluctance to impose cultural values in a country where pederasty is rife, particularly among powerful men, for whom being surrounded by young teenagers can be a mark of social status.
Read the rest here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/w...-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=0

All these articles are from 2015.

Charles Martland, the guy from the original post has already been vindicated back in April
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...s-martland-green-beret-who-hit-afghan-n564861
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Army Reverses Expulsion of Charles Martland, Green Beret Who Hit Afghan Rapist

The Army will not discharge a Green Beret who beat up an Afghan police commander for raping a boy, a reversal that followed allegations that U.S. troops have been discouraged from intervening in sexual abuse among locals.

The Army Board for Correction of Military Records confirmed to NBC News Friday that Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland would be taken off a list of officers to be removed from service. That means he will be allowed to stay in the Army, the board said in a statement.

Sgt. First Class Charles Martland via Office of Rep. Duncan Hunter
The Army did not explain why it changed course, but the board's statement suggested that it had to do with a technicality in the negative evaluations Martland received after the September 2011 incident.

A spokesman for California Rep. Duncan Hunter, who championed Martland's cause, said his office found "irregularities" in the disciplinary process.

"We were under no illusions that the Army would stand up and say Charles was right to tune up that child molester," the spokesman, Joe Kasper, said.

The larger issue — how the military handles allegations of child sex abuse by Afghan authorities — remains under scrutiny. The Pentagon's inspector general is investigating it. And the Afghan government has said it would work harder to prevent the sex abuse of children by its military and police.

U.S. military commanders have denied that service members have ignored sex assault. But they have said the problem is largely one to be tackled by Afghan authorities.

But as Martland's case shows, the reality is far murkier — particularly as the United States continues to train and assist Afghan forces in their fight against the Taliban.

RELATED: Afghanistan Vows to Stop 'Inhuman' Child Sex Abuse

Martland has admitted that he and a supervisor were "absolutely wrong" to hit the Afghan Local Police commander while deployed in Kunduz Province. But he said they were moved to act after the commander kidnapped and raped a local boy, and beat the boy's mother for seeking the Americans' help.

"We already had two other ALP commanders receive no punishment from the Afghan government for the rape of a 15-year-old girl and the honor killing of a commander's 12-year-old daughter for kissing a boy," Martland wrote in a January 2015 memo that Hunter's office provided to NBC News. "My Detachment Commander and I felt that morally we could no longer stand by and allow our ALP to commit atrocities."

Martland and his supervisor, Capt. Dan Quinn, were pulled from Afghanistan. Quinn left the military, while Martland fought his punishment. He eventually turned to Hunter, a former Marine, who fought Martland's removal and drafted a bill that would allow U.S. troops to confront sexual abuse.

"I believe SFC Martland and his team should be commended for showing any restraint at all," Hunter wrote to Department of Defense Ash Carter in August. "And they most certainly had a moral obligation to intervene
 
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