Category: Afghanistan

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• The Greek offer for the Bamiyan Buddhas — John Kiriakou's account that the Greek government, in the depths of its own economic depression, tried to buy the Bamiyan Buddhas from the Taliban in order to save them — intending to donate the statues back to a post-Taliban Afghan government. The offer was refused and the fifteen-hundred-year-old figures were destroyed.