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RSS FeedsOur responsibility to protect cultural heritage in conflict zones
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14 january 2018 02:14:39

 
Our responsibility to protect cultural heritage in conflict zones
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On February 26, 2001, the Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar called for the destruction of all statues and non-Islamic shrines in Afghanistan. “These statues have been and remain shrines of unbelievers,” he said, “and these unbelievers continue to worship and respect them. God Almighty is the only real shrine and fake idols should be destroyed.” A few days later, the sixth-century monumental statues, carved into a cliff in the Bamiyan Valley of central Afghanistan and testifying to the majesty of Buddhist art and its transmission from India into central and Eastern Asia, were hit by anti-aircraft and tank fire and then blown up with dynamite. The oasis town of Palmyra in Syria was even more dramatically damaged. Its most important shrine, a first-century


 
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