Officials see the Buddha remnants as a potentially lucrative source of revenue and are working to draw tourism around the site.
But other Taliban members struggle to embrace artifacts they still find blasphemous. Bamian provincial governor Abdullah Sarhadi said he is committed to preserving Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. But he said tourists should be steered toward other sites.“We are Muslims,” Sarhadi, who says he was held by the United States at Guantánamo Bay, said in an interview. “We should follow the demands of God.” He defended the order to destroy the Buddhas as a “good decision.
A young guard sits last month near the cavity where one of the two 1,500-year-old Buddha statues stood before the Taliban destroyed them in 2001.At 26, Mohammadi is too young to remember the monument’s destruction. He says it’s time for the world to move on. But people here are skeptical. Few have forgiven the atrocities that human rights groups say the Taliban committed from 1996 to 2001 against the region’s predominantly Shiite Muslim population of minority ethnic Hazaras, a relatively progressive and educated but impoverished minority that remains outspoken against Taliban policies today.
“The Taliban have a mentality from 500 years ago,” said a 27-year old man visiting from Iran. “They’re mentally not capable of making use of this place.” But many nonprofits and donors say it would be immoral to return to Afghanistan while the Taliban increases restrictions on women. But in a sign that some international archaeologists could ultimately return, UNESCO recently resumed a project with 100 local workers to secure paths and develop conservation works in Bamian.
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