Source: Overseas Network
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Overseas Network, August 22, According to the New York Times on the 21st, Mohammad Fahim Rahimi, director of the Afghan National Museum, said that the Taliban had promised to protect the Afghan National Museum and the collections of cultural relics in the museum on the 18th, and the originally formulated cultural relics transfer plan has not yet been implemented.
Rahimi said that when the Taliban met with him, he promised to protect the Afghan National Museum and sent a team of armed personnel to protect the museum near the museum to prevent theft. Rahimi was glad that “the cultural relics have not been damaged during the regime change.” However, Rahimi also said that she is still worried about the safety of museum staff and cultural relics. The museum has formulated an emergency plan to transfer 50,000 precious collections to a safe location, but the plan has not been implemented because the Taliban quickly took over Kabul.
reported that the Afghan National Museum, as a great treasure of ancient world culture, experienced civil war in the 1990s, and many cultural relics and buildings were stolen and destroyed. The Taliban issued a statement in February this year promising to protect Afghan cultural heritage and prevent related thefts. Taliban spokesman Shahin also said last week that Afghanistan's Buddhist heritage is not in danger. Bénédict de Montlaur, chairman of the non-profit World Cultural Heritage Foundation, stated in a statement that there should be hope for the Taliban's statement in February and that the whole world will pay attention to the Taliban's actions. (Overseas Network Wang Xiaoyu)
