Friday, December 10, 2010

Leak of the Week #1 - Sex Scandal

Hey Everyone,

I cannot stress how important it is to read and follow along with the Wikileak updates. Everyday more and more leaks come out. There are about 250,000 leaks total; only 1300 have been released.

http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/wikileaks_reveals_us_tax_dollars_fund_child_sex_slavery_in_afghanistan

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_texas_company_helped.php

http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/06/09KABUL1651.html (paragraphs 1, 5 and 6)

I posted links to two articles about this, as well as a link to the actual wikileak cable itself.

So what happened? There is a company called DynCorp that was used to train Afgahn police. It has been disclosed by the company how they are funded: about 95% of its 2 billion annual revenue comes from US taxpayers money. Lets stop right there for a moment.... If I had the ability to pick and chose where my taxes went, it sure as hell would not be DynCorp. Let me write out that number: $2,000,000,000.00. Yea, that's a lot of zeros. But thats not the biggest issue.

DynCorp used some of that money to throw a party for the trainees. No problem... I understand they worked hard and need to have some rewards. Maybe a little cheese and meat platter, some music, perhaps even a riveting game of boulderdash....oh and don't forget the little boys.

They threw a party where entertainment for the evening were bachi bazi boys. Money was paid to their pimps to have boys, ages 12 - 15 come to the party and dance for these men. The boys would be dressed in scantly female outfits and where then bid on. The winner would then take the boy for the night in order to have sex with them. There was a journalist who was working on disclosing this information, but if you look at the articles and the leaks, you can see that they obviously wanted this information to be covered up.

6 comments:

Jiffypop said...

Oh my god.

That's disgusting...

And they got away with this why, exactly?? Things like this make me sick. This shouldn't have been leaked, because it should have never happened. Those poor boys. I can't imagine how they feel. This is disgusting...

Thanks for posting this. I'm definetely going to check out the Wikileaks to see what other horrible things have happened.

Kat said...

The heights we reach when as a community, local or global, work together is one of the most powerful and beautiful things I have witnessed. The depths humanity can and has sunk to will never cease to disgust and astound me.

Anonymous said...

I love the title Serg CNN Couldn't of come up with that, Great job.

Jessica said...

It completely baffles me that the government wants to keep this hidden. No, that's not quite correct, it doesn't surprise me that they would keep this hidden, but why hasn't there been more said by NGOs about this issue, and speaking up for the rights of these young boys.

Thank you for bringing attention to this information. I have to admit that I don't follow wikileaks, mainly because all I know about it is the controversy on tv, but if it is as I imagine, it's got to be kept going for the information of the general public who won't get this information via traditional news media.

Our country can be disturbing, especially in what it's keeping from it's citizens. Thank you for helping expose the truth.

Anya said...

This is very disturbing...

Lenn said...

The sad part is it happen more than we realize.