Mes Aynak - Mining Without Rules Would Endanger Unique Buddhist Site

In his short documentary, uploaded to CNN two days ago, film maker Brent Huffman describes the need to protect one of the most important archaeological sites in Central Asia, the ancient Buddhist city of Mes Aynak in the province of Logar (Afghanistan), strongly endangered by the copper mining project due to start there in 2013, run by China Metallurgical Group (MCC).

Destructions to be expected in Mes Aynak would be more much severe and extended than the ones inflicted to the Buddhist site in Bamiyan.

Though a petition has been launched to prevent the worse, time is really short.

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