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Beginning during the Soviet occupation that carried through the Taliban insurgence, it is said the Kabul Museum was arguably one of the greatest casualties Afghanistan suffered. As a result of the Soviet and Taliban occupation, more than two thirds of the museums treasures and artifacts were lost or destroyed. [11]
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]
Photographing, filming and displaying pictures of girls and women in newspapers, books, shops or the home was banned. [25] The modification of any place names that included the word "women". For example, "women's garden" was renamed "spring garden". [26] [4] Women were forbidden to appear on the balconies of their apartments or houses. [4]
Within a month of claiming Kabul, the Taliban’s education ministry banned girls and women from schools. The Taliban leaders also announced that the girls were barred from studying beyond the ...
On the two-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul and the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, a female journalist talks about everything that she has lost. The Taliban told her to stop breaking their ...
One thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary schools. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell in a statement urged Taliban authorities to allow ...
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 ...
Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and deprived Afghan women and girls of basic freedoms they ...