Fw: Fw: Afganistan Cultural Heritage

["Peggy" <mhe1@xxxxxxx>]

>Subject: Afganistan Cultural  Heritage
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>>UNESCO      International Petition to Safeguard Afghanistan Cultural
Heritage
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>>We,      the undersigned, plead for an immediate end to the Taliban edict
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>>demolish Afghanistan's cultural heritage. We further urge the      Taliban
>>spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar to enter into dialogue with      the
>>international community -- including the Arab and Islamic governments
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>>overwhelmingly have condemned these actions -- in order to      explore
>>proposals to safeguard this irreplaceable cultural heritage from
>>further,
>>senseless destruction.
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>>The edict of the 26th of February      2001 to destroy pre-Islamic and
>>Buddhist
>>objects-including the world's      largest standing Buddha statues at
>>Bamiyan-runs counter to all the basic      principles of respect,
>>tolerance and
>>the wisdom upon which Islam is      based, and is a breach of the Taliban
>>pledge
>>made in 1999. We plead with      Taliban authorities to stop this
>>irreversible
>>assault on two millennia of      Afghanistan's artistic and cultural
>>achievements, treasured not only as      the spiritual birthright of
>>Buddhists
>>everywhere but also as a universal      cultural heritage for people of
all
>>faiths and nationalities.
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>>1.      Gustavo F Araoz, US/ICOMOS, Washington, DC, USA
>>2. Molly Lambert,      Architectural Conservation, Berkeley, CA
>>3. Katherine Petrin,      Architectural Resources Group, San Francisco,
>>California
>>4. Will Shank,      Conservation Resources Management, San Francisco, CA
>>5. Margaret Holben      Ellis, New York University, NY,      NY
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