Bamiyan Buddhas

According to Mr Hussain's account, the men spent three days planting explosives around the statues. Then wires were laid all the way to a nearby mosque from where the charges were detonated amid shouts of "Allah Akbar".

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"When the big explosion happened, the area in front of the Buddha was full of smoke and flames and the air smelled of burned gun powder," Mr Hussain recalls.

He says the Taliban commanders had expected that they would not just destroy the Buddhas but bring the whole cliff face down, but the explosion only blew off the legs of the bigger Buddha.

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But despite the setback and an international chorus of condemnation, the Taliban carried on.

Mr Hussain recalls how additional bombs were brought in along with explosive material that he says looked like soap and felt like dough.

"From then on, they carried out two to three explosions every day to destroy the Buddha completely," he says.

"We drilled holes into the statue to plant the dynamite. We didn't have proper tools. The whole process took 25 days."

The men were fed small portions of rice and bread and Mr Hussain says he made do with the same clothes throughout and just a thin blanket during freezing nights.

When the statues were finally destroyed, the Taliban were celebrating.

"They were firing weapons into the air, they were dancing and they brought nine cows to slaughter as a sacrifice," he says.

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I heard the Taliban were going to allow repairs or something close to that, but changed their mind once they saw how much more care they put into objects than the people dying in Afghanistan.

Taliban offended Lord Buddha and look where they are now

Absolutely based, accept THAT you bald vegan motherfucker.

>they saw how much more care they put into objects than the people dying in Afghanistan.
*How much the international peacekeepers put much more care into the object (Buddha statue)

kek, I remember reading about that, apparently they weren't going to demolish it but some europeans asked to repair it and they were so offended they cared more about rock carvings than actual afghans so they destroyed it

damn... really makes me think.... i guess western imperialism was the real brutal totalitarian theocracy all along...........

Muslims are worthless.
Those statues are worth more than the 1400 millions of muslim vermin that exist in this world.