Child abuse is a very painful topic in the Middle East. Children are beaten every day, almost without reason. There are many signs of child abuse; bruises, broken bones, scratches, deep cuts, etc. They are also taken to concentration camps, kidnapped and placed daily in the hands of the military without notifying their parents. Organizations around the world are trying to help prevent this horrible abuse, but due to the beliefs and religions of the citizens who say they have been doing it for centuries, they won't change it just because someone doesn't like it. Bacha Bazi is a very popular form of child abuse. Bacha Bazi is when men kidnap young men and dress them up as women and force them to dance at parties and large events as a source of entertainment. After the event, the young men are taken home with the older men and are raped. The effect on the men who committed the crime is minimal. These criminals still practice and spread Islam without any regret or problem, as if nothing is happening. Because Bacha Bazi is so common, the majority of the Middle Eastern male population lives with psychological scars from sexual abuse they suffered as children. About 50% of men in Afghanistan take young men as lovers. Bacha Bazi is usually performed in secret to avoid any kind of punishment. The government understands that this is happening but fails to do anything about it due to the citizens' beliefs and religions. Older citizens defend their belief that this has been happening for centuries and they are completely used to it, so why would they change it? But Bacha Bazi is not the only abuse that occurs. (Mondloch)There are many stories of child abuse in the media in the Middle East, but a few stories caught my attention. The first tells... middle of paper... military police." ("UN: Israeli forces abuse Palestinian children") "These crimes are perpetrated from the moment of arrest, during transfer and interrogation, to obtain a confession but also on an arbitrary basis, as witnessed by several Israeli soldiers, as well as during pre-trial detention,” the committee said. (“UN: Israeli forces abuse Palestinian children”) Works Cited “The horror of child abuse is finally emerged into the open in Muslim Pakistan.” South China Morning Post Asia.SCMPA. South China Morning Post Editors. 15 October 2013. Web. 11 February 2014. Mondloch, Chris. “Bacha Bazi: An Afghan Tragedy.” FP. Foreign Policy. 28 October 2013. Web. 28 January 2014. “Syrian children: the forgotten victims”. Your Middle East. 10 February 2014. “UN: The Israeli forces”. they abuse Palestinian children.” Aljazeera. Np/ 20 June 2013. Web. 10 February 2014.