The giant statues of the Buddha in what is now central Afghanistan were constructed in the early 6thcentury and dynamited in 2001 by the Taliban. Why would the Taliban government of Afghanistan have decided to destroy these world-famous statues

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The giant statues of the Buddha in what is now central Afghanistan were constructed in the early 6thcentury and dynamited in 2001 by the Taliban. Why would the Taliban government of Afghanistan have decided to destroy these world-famous statues?

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