March 8, 2001

CPNUA statement by Prof. A. Sattar Sirat on Taliban Destruction of Afghan Heritage

The Declaration of the Essential Rights of Afghan Women and the Legitimacy of Afghanistan By Nasrine Gross

Afghanistan's Buddhas latest casualty in destructive war on idol worship

Afghanistan: The Anatomy of an Ongoing Conflict

 

Afghan protest rally on March 8, 2001 to denounce the criminal Taliban militia's decision to destroy Afghanistan's pre-Islamic cultural heritage.  Click here for more information

Anti-Taliban Protest Rally in Melbourne At 11 a.m., Saturday, March 10, 2001

Anti-Taliban Protest Rally in Paris Saturday, March 10, 2001

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Taliban foreign minister defends edict on Buddhist statues
ISLAMABAD, March 8 (Kyodo) - Afghanistan Foreign Minister Mohmmad Wakil Mutawakil said Thursday Islamic clergymen and scholars criticizing the edict ordering the destruction

INTERVIEW-Taliban rules out alternatives to smashing statues
By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL, March 8 (Reuters) - The ruling Taliban movement vowed on Thursday to complete the destruction of every statue in Afghanistan, saying any alternative would fail to satisfy Islamic law.

Massoud Condemns Relics Destruction - Asks for Action not Words
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8, 2001- AAR - In a sharply worded statement received by Azadi Afghan Radio, Ahmad Shah Massoud, military leader of the Afghan United Front forces fighting the Taliban,

Egypt's Mubarak to ask Taliban to preserve statues
CAIRO, March 7 (Reuters) - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has agreed to a UNESCO request that he ask Afghanistan's Taliban movement to halt its destruction of ancient Buddhist statues.

China calls for Afghan statues to be protected
BEIJING, March 8 (Reuters) - China deplored the destruction of Afghanistan's famed Bamiyan Buddhist statues by the ruling Taliban movement, saying on Thursday that

UN condemns statue destruction - BBC
The UN Security Council has added its voice to worldwide condemnation of the decision by the ruling Taleban in Afghanistan to destroy two giant statues of the Buddha

Sri Lanka pushes again to save Afghan statues
COLOMBO, March 8 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka made another appeal on Thursday for Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement to reverse its campaign to destroy two historic Buddha statues.

30,000 Buddhists protest Taliban destruction of Buddha statues
KATHMANDU, March 7 (AFP) - Nearly 30,000 Bhuddist monks and followers took to the streets of Kathmandu Wednesday to protest against the destruction of Buddha statues

Taking Sides in Afghanistan
By REUEL MARC GERECHT - The New York Times 3/8/01
BRUSSELS ó In Islamic history, the time before the coming of the Prophet Muhammad is the jahiliyya, the Age of Ignorance. For Muslim fundamentalists, like the Taliban of Afghanistan,

Common Afghans to pay the price for Taliban's defiance
By Nadeem Yaqub Asia Times Online March 7, 2001
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Afghanistan's puritanical Islamic militia has shown again that it cares little for world opinion, but it is the people of the drought and war-ravaged nation

Buddha demolitions raise dust in cyberspace
Ashwani Talwar The Times of India, March 7, 2001
NEW DELHI: It is not just the political and religious heavyweights who have been provoked by the Taliban bombardment of the Bamiyan Buddhas. It has also struck a chord

Taleban's Act Flies in Face of Islam's Tenets
International Herald Tribune
Wednesday, March 7, 2001
Throughout History, Muslims Have Looked at the Buddhas of Bamian Without a Word of Condemnation Souren Melikian, art editor of the International Herald Tribune

Massacre of a culture
The Times (UK)
March 7, 2001
Our veteran observer of Afghanistan reports on the Taleban regimeís systematic obliteration of the countryís pre-Islamic past