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	The pillage of Kabul Museum
		Officials of the UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization warned that "looters stripped the national museum in Kabul, the Jalalabad museum was destroyed and several art objects were sold in the west." The loss to the Asian country’s heritage was "massive", they said in a statement.
		In the case of the Kabul Museum, however, all indications suggest that the looting was carried out with careful consideration; it was probably not plundered wantonly by illiterate Mujahideen.
		Afghans should be proud of their past accomplishments, and consider this past a part of their own self-esteem.
	www.rawa.org /museum.html (1580 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Karzai inaugurates rebuilt Afghan museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Karzai cut a pink ribbon to mark the completion of the refit of the two-story museum, whose building was destroyed in civil war and whose collection was further decimated by the Taliban.
		Many Afghans are disappointed with efforts to put the country back on its feet after more than two decades of war -- dismay that Karzai's opponents hope to tap at the ballot box.
		The entire top floor of the museum was destroyed during the civil war, which broke out among Afghanistan's mujahideen factions after Soviet occupiers withdrew in 1989.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/09/29/karzai_inaugurates_rebuild_afghan_museum (566 words)

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		The museum, standing as it does at the crossroads of many ancient civilizations, should be a record of centuries of conquest, trade and culture.
		One of the heaviest blows suffered by the museum was in 1993, when fighting among the Mujahidin, or holy warriors, intensified, and a rocket hit the upper floor, followed by endless looting.
		Museum workers managed to save some fragments of the destroyed statues, which they hid in a storeroom at the back of the building in the hope that they could be restored.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=20216&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&SelectCountry=AFGHANISTAN (1159 words)

	Afghan News Channel www (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Afghan children enjoy ice cream on the eve of the new year, Wednesday, March 21, 2001 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
		Afghan kids clad in new dresses having fun on the eve of new year, March 21, 2001 in Kabul Afghanistan before the blue-domes shrine of Hazrat-e-Ali.
		An official at the National Museum in the Afghan capital Kabul holds a lantern to allow journalists to see what is left at the museum, March 22, 2001.
	www.afghan-network.net /News/Archives/2001/museum.html (268 words)

	The Cold War Museum - Afgan War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the history of Afghanistan, the internal conflict between anti-Communist Muslim guerrillas and the Afghan communist government (aided from 1979 to 1989 by Soviet troops).
		The Soviets initially left the suppression of the rebellion to the Afghan army, but the latter was rapidly depleted by mass desertions and remained largely ineffective throughout the war.
		The Afghan War quickly settled down into a stalemate, with about 100,000 Soviet troops controlling the cities, large towns, and major garrisons and the mujahideen roaming relatively freely throughout the countryside.
	www.coldwar.org /articles/70s/afghan_war.php3 (445 words)

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		the museum has installed closed-circuit television, an alarm system and sophisticated storage cases in which objects are locked, but a report last winter suggested pnds 2 million was still needed to be spent on upgrading security in its 50 km of corridors.
		he considered removal of disputes and unity of all afghan groups as the key to the restoration of peace in afghanistan.
		iran is ready to continue with its peace efforts as before with an aim of settling afghan crisis in an honorable and fair manner.
	www.salamiran.org /Media/IRNA/970428.html (3289 words)

	Museum Under Siege: Full Text
		Afghanistan's first national museum was inaugurated by King Amanullah in November 1924 at Koti Baghcha, a small palace built by the founder of Afghanistan's royal dynasty, Amir Abdur Rahman (1880-1891).
		Museum staff--civil servants in President Rabbani's government--were forbidden to visit the museum because it was in enemy territory.
		This suggests the museum was not plundered by rampaging gangs of illiterate mujahideen.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/afghan (3520 words)

	MUSEUM international N°219-220: UNESCO Culture Sector
		MUSEUM International is, on UNESCO's behalf, all the more grateful to those experts who did contribute to this issue, despite their emergency workload.
		Museums increasingly require the specific insights and experience of indigenous peoples working across national boundaries to devise more meaningful ways to preserve heritage for the people for whom it has most meaning.
		The renovation of the Guimet Museum in January 2001 provided the opportunity to restructure the exhibition halls dedicated to Afghanistan, by reconstituting the various monumental or architectural ensembles that are presented.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18145&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (3541 words)

	Lemar-Aftaab \| www.afghanmagazine.com \| October - December 1999 \| Vol 1 \| Issues 10 \| Articles \| Symposium on the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Zemaryalai Tarzi, professor of Archaeology from the University of Strasbourg, France and former Director General of Afghan Institute of Archeology in Kabul, presented in French "The Buddhist Past of Afghanistan." His lectured focused on the history of the Buddhists and its influence in Afghanistan.
		Afghans in Switzerland should be commended in their joined efforts in construction of the museum.
		David Kamansky are to be highly commended for bringing together distinguished scholars on Afghan archaeology and history and in bringing awareness to the plight of Afghanistan's heritage and culture.
	afghanmagazine.com /oct99/articles/laevent (759 words)

	InfoManage Forums - The Lost Treasures of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was the chivalry of courageous Afghans led by Shah Amanullah Ghazi (r.
		The warring parties in Kabul saw those treasures in the museum as ready cash, to be blasted out of their vaults and hauled away to buyers across the world.
		Afghan educators, elders, and students from all side of the political and social spectrum must get active in efforts to bring together the largest immigrant population of the world.
	infomanage.com /forums/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=3310 (1295 words)

	Culture Without Context: Issue 11, Afghan cultural heritage in Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Organizations such as SPACH and the Afghan Museum in Exile have arrived at the conclusion that they must acquire important cultural artefacts themselves to secure their return to Afghanistan.
		Museums and collections that are members of ICOM are bound to strict ethical guidelines concerning the acquisition of cultural objects.
		When Afghan authorities are in a position to manage the country’s cultural heritage, any institutions or private collectors (be it Martin Schøyen or the Norwegian government) who then own the Buddhist manuscripts will be morally obliged to return them to Afghanistan.
	www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk /IARC/cwoc/issue11/afghanscrolls.htm (2133 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		Afghan National Army soldiers with the 3rd Brigade from Pol-e-Charkhi are learning to appreciate what it means to do a little extra for their fellow citizens.
		Afghan farmers are also encouraged to replace opium poppies with roses and "distil rose oil, a key component of perfume, by planting 40,000 Bulgarian rose plants.
		The Afghan daily Hewat commented upon the presidential inauguration: "Hamid Karzai took the oath of allegiance yesterday as a president who entered the palace through the nation's direct vote, instead of via cannons, tanks, coups and uprisings.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra?id=110006017 (8853 words)

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		Afghanistan's National Museum in Kabul is in ruins, with most of its artifacts destroyed by the Taliban or looted during factional fighting.
		The museum -- in the village of Bubendorf, near Basel -- was founded by a Swiss architect who has turned his home into a safe-haven for Afghanistan's antiquities.
		Those who visit the museum find several exquisite artifacts dating back to 1,500 B.C. Among the objects on display is a 3,500-year-old stone statue of a man and a bronze object dating from the same era that was probably used to imprint bread loaves.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/04/23042002055653.asp (1047 words)

	Department of State Washington File: Swiss Architect Wants to Help Afghans Rebuild Buddhas of Bamiyan
		In a quiet Swiss country town, a dedicated Afghanistan-expert has established a tiny museum to serve as a safe haven for Afghan cultural artifacts, and is working on a UNESCO pilot study on the reconstruction of the Buddhas.
		His aim was to preserve artifacts of the Afghan cultural heritage in a safe place, until a new national museum is built in Kabul.
		Soon Afghans and others began arriving at the door bearing treasures to be preserved, and parcels arrived from the United States and elsewhere.
	usinfo.org /wf-archive/2002/020402/epf209.htm (984 words)

	Afghanistan prepares to rebuild Buddha
		London -- As the Afghan people slowly try to rebuild their country and institutions after the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda, experts are taking stock of the most recent destruction of the country's rich cultural heritage -- the obliteration of statues of Buddha.
		"Afghans see the reconstruction as a symbol of their liberation from Taliban and al Qaeda and as the restoration of a national and international cultural heritage," Bucherer-Dietschi said.
		The museum has received Afghan art from all over the world, pieces that have been rescued or returned by collectors who didn't know they had been stolen.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/12/MNSTATUES12.DTL (925 words)

	News From France
		Afghan Minister for Culture, Omara Khan Masoodi, showed a group of six French experts around the premises of the National Afghan Museum of Kabul on May 6.
		The museum was long considered to be one of the most important cultural sites in Asia, before it became exposed to the strife of the Afghan Civil War in the beginning of the 1990s, when a large portion of the city of Kabul was destroyed.
		The existence of the museum was further endangered when the Taliban came to power, and hundreds of priceless works of art were ruined or smashed by the Taliban militia over the years, particularly during the year 2001.
	www.info-france-usa.org /publi/nff/0206/cul.htm (1005 words)

	Afghanistan2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He said that Afghans are very devout and conservative in their Muslim worldview, and this left little room for conversion to other faiths or religious freedom in general.
		Although there was a growing community of Afghan converts in Kabul, they were not able to worship openly alongside the diplomats and other members of the international community.
		The most public Christian event involving the Afghan people was an annual Christmas pageant at the Wilson's home, where the Christmas story was openly narrated in the local Dari language by an Afghan Christian.
	www.hrwf.net /html/afghanistan2001.html (6804 words)

	CTV.ca - Taleban open Afghan museum, statues gone - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Afghanistan's Taleban rulers allowed reporters to tour the country's National Museum in Kabul Thursday, to prove they had carried out a controversial vow to destroy all the statues that were once at the heart of the museum.
		Inside the museum were dozens of signs that works of arts had been destroyed.
		The Taleban agreed to open the museum to journalists after refusing permission to journalists to visit Bamiyan, where the movement has blown up two colossal Buddhas -- considered to be the most famous ancient treasures in Afghanistan.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1027382940596_22792140?hub=CTVNewsAt11&subhub=PrintStory (289 words)

	World Failed To Safeguard Afghan Relics / Scholars back new removal policy
		As recently as last year, Afghans, including members of the ruling Taliban, were imploring outsiders to help them preserve the country's cultural heritage by taking away portable items for safekeeping, scholars said this week.
		Museum officials and scholars say that despite numerous Afghan requests to safeguard priceless treasures through 20 years of Soviet occupation, civil war and fierce Islamic radicalism, virtually none were officially removed -- although a growing number of pieces have been regularly smuggled out for sale.
		The society and UNESCO were in the process of moving the museum collection to the Kabul Hotel when the Taliban took the city in September 1996.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/08/MN214952.DTL (1269 words)

	Museum: "The Afghan Folio: Photographs by Luke Powell" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Inspired by religion and art as an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina, and later as a graduate student at Yale University, Powell combines his academic accomplishment and travel with his artistic talent in the field of photography to draw attention to a nation in need.
		As a pre-industrial society, the subject of Afghanistan has been a major focus of his work and reveals his fascination with the timeless beauty of its medieval architecture, pastoral landscapes, and the unique culture and traditions of the Islamic world.
		“The Afghan Folio” takes the viewer on a journey through the farms, villages, and deserts of Afghanistan during the 1970s and early 1980s — before industrialization, the invasion of the Soviet Union (1978), or the period of Taliban control and American liberation.
	www.hsc.edu /museum/exhibits/powell (607 words)

	United Press International - Life & Mind - Commentary: Saving Afghanistan's heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The institution is the repository designated for Afghan Art by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which at present forbids the Museum in Exile to purchase Afghan art, a restriction that is completely unrealistic and should be changed.
		Bucherer is one of the few outsiders who have been permitted to visit the museum in Kabul and assess the fate of its collection of thousands of pre-Islamic artifacts, particularly hundreds of magnificent Hellenistic Buddhist sculptures of the Gandharan Empire that evolved from Alexander the Great's conquest of Afghanistan.
		It is also up to the cultural ministries of these countries and major cultural institutions in the West to raise funds to support the Afghan Museum in Exile in recreating a national art collection for the only nation in modern times to have lost almost its entire excavated reserves.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=06062002-113157-5865r (1213 words)

	Afghan Archaeology on Road to Recovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As Afghans start to rebuild, the country is attracting archaeological researchers back to restore its cultural heritage; the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), along with many other foreign research institutions, has stepped in to offer support.
		The once-proud Afghan National Museum in Kabul was looted and the building destroyed.
		Fortunately many of the museum's treasures are apparently still in the country, and the building is being refurbished.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=4679 (1213 words)

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		In the early 1990's, over 60,000 citizens of Kabul died in the fighting, and nearly 70 percent of the objects in the National Museum were plundered.
		At the same time, the Afghan National Army and forces from a coalition of over 25 other nations remain in the field fighting remnants of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
		Afghan officials hope that other international institutions will join the Free Archaeological Institute of Berlin, the Oriental and African Research Institute of Rome, the Cultural Heritage Research Institute of Tokyo and the University of Sydney, which have all recently signed protocols with the Afghan National Institute of Archaeology.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /article.print?id=4679 (1186 words)

	Lemar-Aftaab \| www.afghanmagazine.com \| January - December 2001 \| Vol 2 \| Issues 2 & 3 \| Visual Arts \| Afghan Art ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Society of Afghan Professionals hosted "The Endangered Art of Afghanistan" on Aug. 4, 2001 in Palo Alto, Calif. The Society of Afghan Professionals is a non-profit organization operating out of the Bay Area.
		With the Mujahideen take-over of Kabul in the early 1990s, Afghan National Museum, which houses the most diverse collection of ancient artwork in Afghanistan, was plundered.
		The notable Afghan composer and pianist, Kabir Howaida, gave a detailed English lecture on the basics of Afghan music.
	afghanmagazine.com /2001/visualarts/sapartshow (503 words)

	Afghanistan is a free state
		This Afghan gentleman and my mom were trying to establish an Afghan Museum.
		Seventy-five percent of the Kabul Museum's relics were looted during the twenty years of war.
		Pakistani conservatives raised an eyebrow to all of this, with their interest in creating the same kind of pure Muslim state which they dreamed for themselves when given independence from the British in 1948.
	www.notesfromtheroad.com /desertsouthwest/desertsouthwestlaafgha4.htm (297 words)

	Afghan News Network - Printer Friendly Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Washington (USinfo) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai reclaimed a small part of his nation's cultural heritage -- and drew promises of U.S. help toward achieving a richer future -- in a visit to Washington's premier museum of Asian art.
		He said the NEH is involved in multiple projects aimed at preserving and documenting the art and artifacts of Afghanistan, including grants it has awarded to catalog the Begram ivories and the collections in the Kabul Museum.
		Cole said the NEH plans to announce an initiative this summer under which scholars, museums, filmmakers and archivists will be encouraged to "rediscover Afghanistan's history and culture." He said he looked forward to "the coming renaissance of a great civilization."
	www.afghannews.net /printer.php?action=show&type=news&id=2660 (606 words)

	Arts Journal: Hot issue: Taliban
		The Metropolitan Museum had offered to buy and transport the statues to New York in order to preserve them "It's hard to imagine a more perfect or succinct misunderstanding of the issue.
		UNESCO and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are pressuring the Taliban to give the artifacts to foreign museums.
		AFGHAN MUSEUM REOPENS: Though many of its treasures have been looted, the National Museum of Afghanistan has reopened after a decade of being closed during the civil war.
	www.artsjournal.com /issues/Taliban.htm (1691 words)

	Afghan Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Afghan Museum is a museum in Hamburg, Germany, storing Afghan history.
		It is a private museum and was opened in 1998.
		This page was last modified 23:10, 20 November 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghan_Museum (48 words)

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