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Fears Mount Over The Future Of Afghanistan’s Historic Bamiyan Valley

7th March, 2023 · admin

RFE/RL: March 11 marks the anniversary of the destruction of Bamiyan’s sixth-century Buddha statues by the Taliban in 2001. According to experts, encroaching construction, negligence, and looting are endangering the status and future of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Click here to view photos (external link).

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Photos, Taliban | Tags: Bamiyan, Buddha Statues, Destruction of non Pashtun history and culture by Pashtun Taliban, Life under Taliban rule |
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With Eye to China Investment, Taliban Now Preserve Buddhas

28th March, 2022 · admin

AP: The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be the world’s largest deposit of copper. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Buddha Statues, copper, Natural Resources |
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The Taliban destroyed Afghanistan’s ancient Buddha statues. Now they’re welcoming tourists.

24th November, 2021 · admin

NBC News: Sidiq Ullah, who is a supporter of the militant group, came to see the historic site this week with friends from Kandahar, around 350 miles southwest of Bamiyan. Now that the Taliban are in control, he said, he feels free to tour the country. “I was young when these were destroyed, about 7

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Posted in Art and Culture, Taliban, Travel | Tags: Bamiyan, Buddha Statues, Life under Taliban rule |
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Video Shows Taliban Using Remnants Of Bamiyan Buddhas For Target Practice

10th November, 2021 · admin

#Taliban fighters shooting at remnants of buddha sculptures they blew up two decades ago in 2001. #Afghanistan video via EtilaatRoz pic.twitter.com/2mRyPB8l4H — Sharif Hassan (@MSharif1990) November 1, 2021 Ron Synovitz Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 10, 2021 A video recorded recently in Afghanistan shows Taliban gunmen using the remnants of the Bamiyan Buddhas for target

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Posted in Art and Culture, History, Taliban | Tags: Balkh, Bamiyan, Buddha Statues, Buddhism in Afghanistan, Destruction of non Pashtun history and culture by Pashtun Taliban, Talib |
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Twenty Years Later, Cultural Scars Remain From Loss Of Giant Afghan Buddhas

19th March, 2021 · admin

 In March 2001, Taliban extremists used dynamite and artillery to demolish two towering Buddha statues that had stood in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Province for nearly 1,500 years. Today, the country is still not at peace, and hopes of rebuilding the statues are stymied by prohibitive costs.

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Taliban | Tags: Buddha Statues |
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Afghans Commemorate Taliban Destruction Of Bamiyan Buddhas

10th March, 2021 · admin

RFE/RL Gandhara March 10, 2021 Twenty years after the Taliban blew up two famous Buddha statues, Afghans commemorated the tragic loss of their historical and cultural heritage on March 9 at a ceremony in the central Bamiyan valley. In a nighttime display, one of the Buddha statues came back to life as a three-dimensional projection

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Posted in Art and Culture, Crime and Punishment, History, Taliban | Tags: Bamiyan, Buddha Statues |
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Archeologists Share New Discoveries in Kabul

23rd December, 2020 · admin

Tolo News: Archeologists have made new discoveries in fourteen sites on the Tapa-e-Narenj hill in Kabul over the past eight years, Afghan archeologists said on Wednesday. All new discoveries belong to the Buddhist era . The new discoveries include several stupas, one fireplace, 24 broken statues, two complete statues, one statue of a princess and

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Posted in Art and Culture, History | Tags: Buddha Statues, Buddhism in Afghanistan, Kabul |
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Perspective: Would Peace Be Fair — And How Would Afghan Women Fare — If The Taliban Returned?

7th March, 2020 · admin

By Freshta Jalalzai Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 7, 2020 Less than 48 hours before the Taliban signed a conditional peace agreement with the United States, I telephoned the spokesman of the Taliban’s Doha office to discuss the terms of the pending accord. “I am driving at this very moment,” Suhail Shaheen told me when I

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Posted in Afghan Women, Media, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Afghan Journalists, Buddha Statues, Taliban War on Muslims |
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Afghanistan museum unveils restored ancient Buddha

17th March, 2017 · admin

AFP: It has withstood time, the elements, looters and war,but after at least 15 centuries buried underground, a spectacular Buddha restored and removed from one of Afghanistan’s most dangerous regions is to make its public debut in the country’s national museum. The statue, which depicts the sage in a purple shroud offering his hands to the

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Posted in Art and Culture, History | Tags: Buddha Statues |
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Bamiyan Cultural Centre gets under way

4th February, 2017 · admin

The Art Newspaper: A cultural centre at the Unesco World Heritage site in Afghanistan where the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas is due to open to the public in summer 2018. Construction began in September on the 2,450 sq. m building by the Argentinian firm M2R Arquitectos, which beat more than 1,000 other entrants in an

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Posted in Art and Culture, History, Reconstruction and Development | Tags: Bamiyan, Buddha Statues |
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