Ignoring an international outcry, the Taliban blow up two giant 1,500 year old statues of Buddha – carved into the cliffs above Bamiyan now we notice. Ignoring an international outcry, the Taliban blow up two 2,000-year-old Buddhist statues in the cliffs above Bamiyan, west of Kabul.
Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban, declared that the statues were “idols” and order their destruction. Taliban soldiers at first fire bullets and artillery at the statues, finally attaching demolitions. “Muslims should be proud of smashing idols,” Omar said. “It has given praise to Allah that we have destroyed them.”
Day: March 12, 2021