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Do you know what bacha or bazi means? You should.Bacha bazi (Dari/Persian: بچه بازی,🔻Literally translating to "boy play") is a custom historically practiced in parts of Afghanistan and Central Asia where adolescent boys are:📍exploited📍cross-dressed📍forced to perform dances 📍and provide sexual services to powerful men. 👉​Key details regarding the practice include:👉​Terminology: 🔹️Bacha means "child" or "boy," 🔹️bazi means "play" or "game." 👉The boys involved are called bachas, and the older, often wealthy or influential men who keep them are known as bacha baz. 👉​Nature of the Practice: 👉Young, prepubescent or adolescent boys often from impoverished backgrounds or orphaned are taken or bought by older men. 🔺️They are made🔹️to dress in female attire🔹️wear makeup🔹️dance at private social gatherings or weddings🔹️frequently suffering severe exploitation🔹️Abuse🔹️and sexual slavery. 👉​Legal and Religious Status: ‼️Bacha bazi is strictly forbidden under Islamic law (Sharia), which prohibits child abuse, homosexuality, and extra-marital sexual relations. ⛔️It was criminalized under Afghan law and banned during various regimes, including by the Taliban, though it historically persisted illegally in rural or warlord-controlled areas due to corruption and power dynamics. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BsdfDKN8X/