When the Taliban blew up the Buddhas

Pepe Escobar- Twenty years ago this month the Afghan Taliban blew the Bamiyan Buddhas to smithereens; they can only be seen now as 3-D holograms

Twenty years ago this month the Afghan Taliban blew the Bamiyan Buddhas to smithereens; they can only be seen now as 3-D holograms

In the beginning, they were the Bamiyan Buddhas: the Western Buddha statue, 55 meters high, and the Eastern, 38 meters high, carved for decades since 550 A.D. from porous sandstone cliffs, the intricate details modeled in clay mixed with straw and coated with stucco.

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