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Input: WASHINGTON (AP) — The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday he expects U.S. personnel to report to military superiors any allegations of sexual abuse of boys by Afghan forces. He added that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has assured him the government "will not tolerate abuse of its children." 
  
 The statement from Gen. John Campbell, who heads U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, came in response to reports that Afghan forces who worked with U.S. military personnel sexually assaulted boys and that U.S. troops were told to ignore suspicions of abuse. Members of Congress have complained that a U.S. soldier was forced out of the military because he intervened in 2011, attacking an Afghan police commander he believed was raping a child. 
  
 Campbell, in his statement, said he was confident there had never been a policy that U.S. troops were to ignore suspicions of abuse. 
  
 The general said he expects "any suspicions of sexual abuse will be immediately reported to the chain of command, regardless of who the alleged perpetrators or victims are." 
  
 Campbell said if the alleged abuse involves Afghans, the reports will be forwarded to him and to the staff judge advocate so that the Afghan government "can be advised and requested to take action." 
  
 Campbell said Ghani "made it clear to me that the Afghan government will not tolerate the abuse of its children, or any of its people, and will thoroughly investigate all allegations and administer justice appropriately." 
  
 The State Department, in its annual human rights reports, has consistently said that sexual abuse of children remains pervasive in Afghanistan. In its 2014 report, the State Department said that many child sexual abusers are not arrested, and "there were reports security officials and those connected to the ANP (Afghan National Police) raped children with impunity." 
  
 The New York Times reported that U.S. soldiers and Marines said they were told to look the other way when they suspected child sexual abuse by Afghan forces and in some cases were disciplined for trying to stop it. ||||| Throughout the war in Afghanistan, American-led forces struggled with how to handle the issue when the sexual abuse became apparent. Service members encountered it at police posts, at Afghan Army bases and, at times, even on shared bases. Even high-level American officials sometimes found themselves dealing with powerful Afghans who were widely accused of pederasty, such as Gul Agha Shirzai, a former provincial governor and an important power broker in Afghanistan who once enjoyed close ties with the United States. 
  
 The problem was so common that an American military report in 2011 listed the rape of boys as an issue that could cause tension between American and Afghan troops. 
  
 Most often, the immediate solution was to ignore allegations of child rape, according to soldiers and Marines who served in Afghanistan. The troops said they understood that the unofficial policy was to look the other way or, if necessary, to report any evidence they had to their superiors, who could then pass it to the Afghan authorities. Still, some soldiers said that rarely happened. 
  
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 But not all troops on the front line — who, at the height of the war, often shared bases with Afghan forces — ignored abuse. An article published Sunday by The New York Times details how, in 2011, two American soldiers beat up an Afghan commander who had been accused of raping boys and had laughed when confronted with the allegations. One of the soldiers was relieved of his command and then left the military, and the other is being forced out. 
  
 In the days since, the Pentagon and Gen. John F. Campbell, the commander of the American-led coalition, have said there is no formal policy of disregarding allegations of rape, pedophilia or any other kind of abuse. 
  
 “I want to make absolutely clear that any sexual abuse or similar mistreatment of others, no matter the alleged perpetrator or victim, is completely unacceptable and reprehensible,” General Campbell said in a statement. He also said he had ordered troops to send such accusations up the chain of command. 
  
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 Mr. Ghani said in the interview that he and General Campbell spoke about the issue on Monday, and that the Afghan government was forming a committee to investigate all allegations of child rape. 
  
 “We will take action, ranging from removing people from the security forces to introducing them to the courts,” Mr. Ghani said. 
  
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 Still, the Afghan justice system’s ability to take on wrongdoing stands in question, with many courts riddled with corruption or ineffective because the people they are targeting are powerful and well connected. 
  
 Mr. Ghani acknowledged that “the larger cultural dynamic needs time.” 
  
 He cast the child sexual abuse problem as one rooted far deeper than present-day Afghanistan. “Our Greek and Turkish heritage have generated periods of long practices,” he said. “Those require a large cultural-social dialogue that require purpose and energy.” 
  
 Alexander the Great conquered much of Afghanistan starting around 330 B.C., bringing with him ancient Greek cultural practices that died out in their homeland millenniums ago. And though the sexual abuse of boys was a feature of life in the Ottoman Empire, it faded in the 19th century and is no longer accepted in Turkey. 
  
 In Afghanistan, though, the rape of boys persists, and Mr. Ghani insisted, “I’m not going to tolerate this.” ||||| Afghan President Ashraf Ghani sought Wednesday to reassure the United States that he does not condone the sexual abuse of boys by his nation’s security forces — a seamy cultural gap that has long been unacknowledged even as it has plagued the war effort. 
  
 Ghani issued a statement promising to undertake “serious measures” to prevent sexual abuse of children. In a video conference with his military commanders, Ghani demanded they uphold “the laws, culture, and religious values of the people of Afghanistan [and] recognize sexual abuse of children as one of the severest crimes and violations of human rights.” 
  
 The practice of Afghan warlords and military commanders forcing young boys to act as sexual slaves — known as bacha bazi, or “boy play” — has been widely written about since the opening days of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan in 2001. But new allegations have surfaced by American troops who say they were ordered to look the other way — and in at least two cases, were disciplined when they resisted — when confronted with the abuse. 
  
 That’s widely inconsistent with how U.S. and NATO allies have generally worked with, and mentored, Afghan security forces, said John Sifton, the Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. 
  
 “U.S. forces have a pretty good policy about pushing back against Afghan forces engaging in torture,” Sifton told Foreign Policy. “Why they would distinguish between torture and the rape of boys is beyond me.” 
  
 Over the course of its long mission in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies have steadily scaled back nation-building ambitions, which had initially embraced women’s rights and promoting the rule of law and democratic reforms. Anxious to end America’s military presence, U.S. officials in the Obama administration started talking about “Afghan good enough” as shorthand for forsaking a bid to transform Afghan society in favor of the more limited goal of preventing the return of Taliban rule. 
  
 A May 2011 study published by George Washington University cited Afghans’ “cruelty toward women and children” as a main driver of U.S. troops’ disdain and negative perceptions toward the very people they were deployed to protect. The study, by military behavioral scientist Dr. Jeffrey Bordin, offered a relatively half-hearted recommendation: That more research and development was needed to develop cultural training and behavior standards. 
  
 “How they treat their women and children is disgusting; they are just chattel to them,” one unidentified U.S. soldier said in the study. 
  
 Earlier this week, Gen. John Campbell, commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, demanded that any suspicions of sexual abuse be reported immediately, “regardless of who the alleged perpetrators or victims are.” 
  
 “I want to make absolutely clear that any sexual abuse or similar mistreatment of others, no matter the alleged perpetrator or victim, is completely unacceptable, and reprehensible,” Campbell said in Tuesday’s statement. 
  
 On the same day, the Army denied the appeal of an Army Green Beret soldier who says he was disciplined for pushing and striking an Afghan police officer in 2011 who had confessed to raping a boy and then beating his mother. Army Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland claims his actions, along with another Army officer, hurt his career and put him on a list of soldiers who are being downsized from the military due to budget cuts. 
  
 Martland has been told he must leave the Army by Nov. 1. His case has been taken up by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), who is hammering Defense Secretary Ash Carter to reconsider Martland’s job. 
  
 “I hope that when making a decision between supporting an elite warrior like Martland or a child rapist and criminal, the organizations or individuals in a position to make a decision will side with Martland,” Hunter wrote. A spokesperson for Hunter told said he has yet to receive a reply from Carter’s office. 
  
 Brookings Institution senior fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown said the young Afghan boys who suffer abuse often don’t have an adult who will shield them, since many are orphans or from an ethnic minority. She said bacha bazi is prevalent among the Afghan Local Police (ALP) as well, which has long been criticized as being rife with corruption and abuse. 
  
 The ALP program was created in 2010 by U.S. and British forces to supplement the ranks of the Afghan army and police by recruiting small groups of local fighters to provide security in their own towns and villages. They receive minimal training, but were backed by local NATO forces and given some direct oversight by small teams of Special Forces personnel. 
  
 There are currently almost 30,000 ALP spread throughout the country, but critics have charged that the groups are too often little more than gangs run by local warlords who use the guise of policing as an excuse to extort and intimidate the local population. 
  
 Felbab-Brown, who extensively researched the local police program in Afghanistan, said some of the ALP sites she visited were full of “young boys hanging around.” But it wasn’t exclusive to the militias. “You would see the same thing at police stations, at Afghan military bases,” she said. “They were supposedly cooks, cleaners, and tea boys. But at times they were also sex slaves.” 
  
 In a report issued in June, the International Crisis Group pointed to “a survey of U.S. Special Operations Forces teams mentoring ALP units in 2011 found that 20 per cent reported ALP colleagues were guilty of undefined ‘physical abuse/violence.’” 
  
 “We’ve been training this military for 14 years, but we haven’t trained them to build a military justice system and to hold people accountable when they commit abuses,” Human Rights Watch’s Sifton said. 
  
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Output:
Afghanistan's president wants the world to know that he's as outraged as anybody by the widespread practice of abusing young boys and that he's going to do something about it. President Ashraf Ghani says the rape of boys as young as 6 is "unacceptable" and that his government will stamp it out "to the extent to which the authority of the state can be harnessed," the New York Times reports. "Six-year-, 8-year-, 10-year-olds are raped, and I'm not going to tolerate this." He was speaking after reports that US troops had been told to ignore the abuse of boys by their Afghan allies, reports the Times, which notes that the sexual abuse of boys was banned by the Taliban but is now once again common among powerful Afghans, including commanders in the security forces. In a video conference with military commanders yesterday, Ghani ordered them to "recognize sexual abuse of children as one of the severest crimes and violations of human rights," Foreign Policy reports. The US military, meanwhile, denies that troops were told not to do anything about abuse involving the Afghan forces they work with, the AP reports. Gen. John Campbell, chief of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, issued a statement saying he expects "any suspicions of sexual abuse will be immediately reported to the chain of command, regardless of who the alleged perpetrators or victims are."