Years after Bamiyan Buddhas, Taliban seize power in Afghanistan destroys statue of Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari
Mazari was a champion of Shia, Afghanistan's ethnic Hazara minority, who had been persecuted under the earlier rule of the Sunni Taliban.
Kabul: The Taliban have blown up a statue of a Shia militia leader who fought against them during Afghanistan's civil war in the 1990s, according to photos circulated on social media on Wednesday.
The statue depicts Abdul Ali Mazari, a militia leader killed by the Taliban in 1996, when Islamic militants seized power from rival warlords. Mazari was a champion of Shia, Afghanistan's ethnic Hazara minority, who had been persecuted under the earlier regime of the Sunni Taliban. Read More Click here : Afghanistan