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The Giant Buddah Statues at Bamiyan destroyed

Ferryhill Summer Club 2002
"The Year of the Child"

5th-12th August 2002 
9.15-12.15 pm 
in the Church Halls

Colossal statues of Buddah carved into sandstone cliffs of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, were recently demolished by the Taleban, the fundamentalist Islamic group that  ruled most of Afghanistan until this year. Amid international protests, the Taleban ordered their destruction as part of a campaign to rid the land of all pre-Islamic idols considered by them to be an assault on Islam.

More information

BBC article