Buddas af bamiyan nedrevet i 2001, i hvilket land?
Afghanistan
Buddhas of Bamiyan
De blev sprængt og ødelagt i marts 2001 af Taleban på ordre fra lederen Mullah Mohammed Omar, efter at Taleban-styret havde erklæret, at de var afguder. En udsending, der besøgte USA i de følgende uger, sagde, at de blev ødelagt for at protestere mod den internationale bistand, der udelukkende var forbeholdt vedligeholdelse af statuer, mens Afghanistan var ramt af hungersnød, mens den afghanske udenrigsminister hævdede, at ødelæggelsen blot handlede om at gennemføre islamisk religiøs ikonoklasme. Den internationale opinion fordømte kraftigt ødelæggelsen af buddhaerne, som i de følgende år først og fremmest blev betragtet som et eksempel på Talebans ekstreme religiøse intolerance. Bl.a. Japan og Schweiz har lovet støtte til genopbygning af statuerne.
Afghanistan
Buddhas of Bamiyan
They were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols. An envoy visiting the United States in the following weeks said that they were destroyed to protest international aid exclusively reserved for statue maintenance while Afghanistan was experiencing famine, while the Afghan Foreign Minister claimed that the destruction was merely about carrying out Islamic religious iconoclasm. International opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which in the following years was primarily viewed as an example of the extreme religious intolerance of the Taliban. Japan and Switzerland, among others, have pledged support for the rebuilding of the statues.
Buddhas of Bamiyan