The sales operations were noticeably monitored by the families who reside in the camps, in an effort to secure food for several months from the coming winter, after money, energy sources and all foodstuffs became very scarce inside the country.
The materials were severely decreased, while the camps were receiving aid from charitable and international institutions, but they stopped completely several months ago.
The American Network report conveyed the story of an Afghan family who has lived for nearly four years in the Badghis camp in northwestern Afghanistan. It relied on humanitarian aid and performed some simple services inside the camp.
This activity brought the family an estimated few dollars a month, providing it with a large part of its essential needs. But that has stopped completely since last August.
Recently, the family had to sell one of its daughters, about two months ago, who was only 12 years old. She is now making “bargains” with a 55-year-old to sell their second 9-year-old daughter.
This man says that he will use the girl to work inside his house in another area, but without any guarantees that his purpose in the purchase will be as well, or only so.
bleak reality
Sky News Arabia contacted by phone more than one Afghan government institution inside the capital, Kabul, and from both foreign and Afghan numbers, in particular with the Afghan Ministry of Interior, to find out the information available to the ministry and its position on this available information, but all parties refused to comment on this. The matter, considering that only the leadership of the movement can comment and give the official position on the issue.
Regarding the prices paid for the purchase of these children, an Afghan person familiar with what is happening, on condition of anonymity, said that the amounts offered ranged between 1000-3000 dollars, depending on the required child’s fulfillment of the conditions determined by the party wishing to buy.
But many rumors have spread in various regions of Afghanistan about the arrival of many human trafficking networks from outside the country into Afghanistan, especially the more miserable southern and western regions of the country, to buy children and transport them abroad, especially younger children.
“vile” motives
The Afghan researcher and activist in the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, Rojhal Khamadari, explained in an interview with “Sky News Arabia”, the three things that the sale of children in Afghanistan can lead to, “whatever the verbal packaging of what happens, granting any child under the age of eight Ten for someone else is an actual sale.
She added that most of what is happening may be under the pretext of marriage, especially for girls who are about ten years old, and they are granted to people who are many years older than them, in some cases reaching about thirty years.
The Afghan human rights activist added in her interview with “Sky News Arabia”, “There is also a sale for the purpose of adoption for the benefit of other families, and this usually takes place through networks operating across borders, and for the benefit of non-Afghan parties and families, and civil associations and government agencies over the past years have stopped this quite”.
And she added, “Finally, there is the sale that takes place for the most inferior purpose, which is domestic forced labor, a form of slavery, or with the aim of obtaining the physical organs of the child being sold, especially the kidneys and liver.”
The global reports had raised the alarm about the economic and living conditions of the Afghan population in the country. She pointed out that half of Afghanistan’s population suffers from food insecurity, according to a documented report of the United Nations, while more than three million Afghan children under the age of 15 face severe acute malnutrition, while all materials and energy are lost from the local market.
Nearly a million Afghans live in more than 38 internal camps, where they lose all forms of care, including the absence of any source of income.
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