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Lord Curzon, who visited the court of Abdur Rahman Khan in the late nineteenth century, refers to “dancing-boys” as “an amusement much favored in Afghanistan”; and John Alfred Gray, a British physician who served as the amir's surgeon in the early 1890s, describes a scene of a dozen boys, “aged about thirteen to fourteen,” with long ...
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan is a 2010 documentary film produced by Clover Films and directed by Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi about the practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan. The 52-minute documentary premiered in the UK at the Royal Society of Arts on March 29, 2010, [1] and aired on PBS Frontline in the United States on April 20.
It was produced in Dari, Afghanistan’s primary language, as part of the Afghan Film Project—a program aimed at rebuilding the country’s film industry by training local cast and crew members. [24] [25] Buzkashi Boys became the first film shot in Afghanistan to receive a nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards ...
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Buzkashi Boys is a 2012 film directed by Sam French, and co-produced in Afghanistan and the United States. It was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
Zinky Boys [1] (Russian: Цинковые мальчики, romanized: Tsinkovye malchiki), also translated as Boys in Zinc [2] is a 1989 documentary book by Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich about the Soviet–Afghan War.
Afghan boys and girls are trafficked within the country and into Iran, Pakistan and India as well as Persian gulf Arab states, where they live as slaves and are forced to prostitution and forced labor in brick kilns, carpet-making factories, [1] and domestic service. In some cases the boys and girls were used for organ trafficking.
also: People: By gender: Men: By nationality: Afghan This category exists only as a container for other categories of Afghan men . Articles on individual men should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.