Taliban fighters ‘buying child brides & babies to be raised as sex slaves for just £800 from desperate Afghans’
TALIBAN fighters are allegedly buying child brides and even babies to be raised and turned into sex slaves for as a little as £800.
Sources have said children as young as one are reportedly being sold to the vile extremists in exchange for cash, livestock and weapons.
The sick and twisted jihadis are exploiting the desperate and poverty-stricken people of Afghanistan - often targeting rural communities.
The children will be raised with the eye of them becoming "brides" for the fighters - who are often nothing more than sex slaves.
It comes as the country suffers under the boot of the militant group who surged back to power after the withdrawal of Western forces.
Sources have said that the Taliban have been preying on villages in Ghur province close to the Afghan capital Kabul.
Underaged children are being sold for between £811 and £2,027 (100,000 to 250,000 Afghan afghani), or exchanged for guns or farm animals.
The practice is said to be rife in rural districts close to Kabul and has reached epidemic proportions since the fall of the government and financial collapse.
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“Poverty, unemployment and severe economic problems in Ghur province have led to child marriages and a number of families in exchange for money, weapons or livestock let their below age girls marry middle-aged men,” a source told one local agency.
Habiba Jamshidi, a women’s rights activist in the west of the country, said women make up half of the population and should not be treated inhumanely.
She said one of the reasons behind the child marriage issue is the lack of “proper awareness of the role and position of women”.
Child marriage has been widely documented in Afghanistan - often justified using twisted versions of Islam.
Women and girls have long been warned to be the biggest potential victims of the Taliban takeover as the fighters roll back 20 years of progress.
Brutal, oppressive and sexist laws enacted by the group in the 90s are being rolled back into place.
Women face being being murdered for showing too much flesh, demanding basic human rights, having affairs and being rape victims.
The brutes had already reportedly burnt to death a woman they said served below-par cooking to its members.
And as the Taliban stormed across Afghanistan, it was reported their militants were already kidnapping children as young as 12.
Taliban's vicious treatment of women
WITH stonings, beheadings and being shot with assault rifles at point blank range, the women of Afghanistan face being left to a horrific fate.
Women were brutally oppressed when then the militant group last controlled Afghanistan in the 90s - and this looks set to return.
Pictures from Kabul already show pictures of women being painted over, and many high profile females have already been withdrawn from public life.
Many women opted to flee the country - and those that remain have spoken of how they have been left in fear for their lives.
During the group's five year rule throughout the 90s women were left housebound, only being able to leave with a male chaperone and while wearing a full burqa.
"The face of a woman is a source of corruption", according to the Taliban.
Women are banned from working, banned from education over the age of 8, restricted from seeing doctors and face the constant threat of flogging or execution for any breaches of "moral" laws.
Already there have been reports of girls as young as 12 being married off to fighters, a woman being shot for wearing "tight clothes", and women being told they cannot leave home without a male chaperone.
Taliban militants in 2016 beheaded a woman for going shopping alone while her husband was away from home in the village of Larri.
Footage from 2012 captured Taliban militants shooting a woman named Najiba, 23, in the back of the head as she sat in a ditch in Qol.
While another horrific video showed another woman named Rokhshana, 19, being stoned in a shallow grave in Ghor in 2015.
Najiba was accused of adultery, while Rokhshana was accused of having sex with her boyfriend outside of marriage.
Video captured earlier this year showed an unnamed woman screaming as she was whipped by a Taliban fighter accused of talking to a man on the phone.
And in one of the most infamous pictures ever captured of Taliban brutality, a woman named Zarmina, a mum-of-five, was executed in the middle of a football stadium in Kabul in 1999.
Zarmina's death was watched by 30,000 spectators as she cowered beneath her veil - showing the terrifying normalisation of violence against women under the Taliban.
And meanwhile, Bibi Aisha had her nose and ears cut off by the Taliban when she tried to flee after being married off at 14.
Other reports claim that many children in Afghanistan have been forced to leave school and beg since the Taliban takeover.
The United Nations believes that HALF of the country’s 18 million people are caught up in a growing humanitarian crisis.
Authorities in Turkey have stepped up border security and said 90,000 Afghans have been prevented from entering the country via its eastern borders so far this year and Iran is also expecting an influx.
There has also been an upsurge in violence in the tribal areas along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan as vicious ISIS-K fundamentalists seek to establish a foothold in the area.
The terror group is opposed to the Taliban, claiming that it is not implementing Islam as out in the Koran, and has launched some 30 attacks since the new regime took power.
It is also rumoured that a Taliban faction known as the Haqqani Network, is trying to carve out a mini-state in the north of the country.
They have been given effective control of the Taliban’s equivalent of the Home Office.
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But eyebrows have been raised by reports that members of the clan have recently re-affirmed their loyalty to the Haqqani leadership and not Taliban leaders.
In a recent audio statement Mohammad Yaqoob, the Taliban’s defence secretary and son of one-eyed Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, acknowledged that revenge killings has been taking place.
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