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  2. Destruction of art in Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    By winter 2001, pleas were raining down on the Taliban from around the world to spare the statues. [23] Mullah Mohammad Omar, leader of the Taliban Islamic militia in Afghanistan, dismissed the international pleas of the art and historical preservation world community with regard to saving the world-renowned Buddhas from imminent destruction.

  3. Archaeology of Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    On the August 18, 2021, the Taliban caused the destruction of an erected statue of political leader Abdul Ali Mazari in the province of Bamiyan. [15] In 1995, Mazari was killed by the Taliban because of his leadership and advocacy for the Shiite Hazaras, an ethnic group who has long been persecuted by the Taliban. [16]

  4. National Museum of Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    In February and March 2001, the Taliban destroyed countless pieces of art due to religious reasons. [17] It was reported in November 2001 that the Taliban had destroyed at least 2,750 ancient works of art during the year. [18] Courtyard of the building in 2010. Between 2003 and 2006, about $350,000 was spent to refurbish the building.

  5. The Taliban destroyed these ancient Buddhas. Now they're ...

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    BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in early 2001 shocked the world and highlighted their hard-line regime, toppled soon after in a U.S.-led invasion.

  6. At least 10 Taliban fighters killed in Kabul ministry attack ...

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    It said three military vehicles were destroyed. The attack comes just days after the Taliban’s acting minister of refugees and repatriation, Khalil Haqqani, was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul.

  7. Kabul explosion kills Afghan Taliban regime's minister for ...

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    The minister for refugees in Afghanistan's Taliban government was killed in an explosion Wednesday at the ministry's headquarters in the capital Kabul, multiple senior officials with Taliban ...

  8. List of destroyed heritage - Wikipedia

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    As a result, more than two-thirds (66%) of the one hundred thousand museum treasures and artifacts were lost or destroyed. [26] A pair of 6th-century monumental statues known as the Buddhas of Bamiyan were dynamited by the Taliban in March 2001, [27] who had declared them heretical idols. The world's oldest oil paintings were discovered in ...

  9. Afghanistan's Taliban leaders issued different messages for ...

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    The messages for Eid al-Fitr marking the end of Ramadan were delivered by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, who defended the imposition of Islamic law and railed against the international community for its criticism, and Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who called on the Taliban to be humble and avoid behaving in ways that make Afghans ...