Posts Tagged ‘ANP’

2 Cents on Bacha Bazi

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, War on 25 April 2011 tagged Afghan National Police, Afghan Police, Afghanistan, ANP, Bacha Bazi, Eurocentric, Human Rights, Kelly B Vlahos, malnutrition, New England, orientalist, taliban, UNICEF, بچه بازی with no comments

In writing about bacha bazi and how it fits into the on-going East-West dynamic of Human Rights discourse I came to a conclusion (after facing a lot of frustration with much of the Eurocentric and Orientalist verbiage in a lot of the writing about the controversial subject). Namely that as with any predatory or exploitative [...]