DynCorp - the Balkan child traffickers punish whistleblower

[Magda Hassan]

US security contractors & child sex allegations: US War Crimes Tribunal investigation #7

Posted on April 20, 2013 by [URL="http://darkernet.in/author/admin/"]admin


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US officials were asked to cover up evidence of child abuse by contractors in Afghanistan leaked diplomatic cables revealed that US officials were complicit. DynCorp a defense contracting firm that claimed almost $2 billion per year in revenue from U.S. tax dollars threw a party for Afghan security recruits, featuring boys purchased from child traffickers for entertainment. DynCorp had already faced human trafficking charges (see end of article) before this incident took place. See below for more….
(This report is part of a series of investigations for a proposed US War Crimes Tribunal. There is one more report to follow, plus a Summary report. Here are investigations #1 (Iraq War atrocities part 1 ), #2 ( Iraq War atrocities part 2 ), #3 ( Guantanamo Bay atrocities ), #4 ( Afghanistan atrocities ), #5 ( Dulci et decorum est pro patria mori ) and #6 ( Iraq War and perverting the course of justice ).)
The proposed tribunal could take place in parallel with the so-called trial in June of Bradley Manning, the US soldier being prosecuted for passing on information about US war crimes.



Foreign contractors employed to train Afghan policemen took drugs and paid for young "dancing boys" (see video at top of this article) to entertain them in northern Afghanistan. But the scandal was leaked and the Afghan interior minister requested that the US embassy to "quash" the story, according to a US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks. Hanif Atmar, the interior minister, warned that the story would "endanger lives". He was also worried about a video of the incident might be made public. DynCorp was the US company whose employees were involved in the incident in the northern province of Kunduz.
There is a long tradition of young boys dressing up as girls and dancing for men in Afghanistan, which is an activity that can occasionally lead to crosses child abuse, with some Afghans keeping the boys as possessions'.
Two Afghan policemen and nine other Afghans were arrested as part of the subsequent investigation.
An article was published in July 2010 by the Washington Post about the incident, which made little of the affair, saying it was an incident of "questionable management oversight" in which foreign DynCorp workers "hired a teenage boy to perform a tribal dance at a company farewell party". In fact, the episode was causing palpitations at the top of government, including in the presidential palace.
The cable records: "Atmar said that President Karzai had told him that his (Atmar's) prestige' was in play in management of the Kunduz DynCorp matter and another recent event in which Blackwater contractors mistakenly killed several Afghan citizens. The President had asked him Where is the justice?'"
In a meeting between Atmar and the assistant ambassador Joseph Mussomeli, the US diplomat said he was deeply upset by the incident and that the embassy was considering Afghan demands that the US military should beginning overseeing the DynCrop operations.
Note.. DynCorp, together with another US security contractor, Halliburton, were also involved in sex trafficking allegations re their time in the Balkans. Ben Johnston, a DynCorp aircraft mechanic for Apache and Blackhawk helicopters in Kosovo, filed a lawsuit against his employer. The suit alleged that that in the latter part of1999 Johnson "learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in] other immoral acts." The suit charges that "Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased." "DynCorp is just as immoral and elite as possible, and any rule they can break they do," Johnston told Insight magazine. He charged that the company also billed the Army for unnecessary repairs and padded the payroll. "What they say in Bosnia is that DynCorp just needs a warm body that's the DynCorp slogan. Even if you don't do an eight-hour day, they'll sign you in for it because that's how they bill the government. It's total fraud."