“An attempt to wipe out history”: The destruction of the Bamian Buddha colossi in 2001
Kate Clark
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Thomas Ruttig
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On 26 February 2001, the leader of the Afghan Taleban movement, Mullah Muhammad Omar, ordered from his headquarters in Kandahar that “all statues and non-Islamic shrines in the different areas of the Islamic Emirate must be broken” because they were worshipped by people of non-Islamic religious beliefs and were therefore ‘idols.’ This kind of worship, […]
Context and Culture
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