My friend Michal Przedlacki posted to Flickr 16 pictures he very recently shot in Mes Aynak, Afghanistan (Logar Province).
This Buddhist archaeological site is severely endangered by a copper mine a Chinese company is going to radically expand and will probably utterly be destroyed in a handful of months. If we think that in Egypt many ancient temples and monuments have been saved from being submerged by the Aswan dams by moving them elsewhere (and this as far back as before 1902 by the British Government, and then again after 1960, by the joint effort of UNESCO and many participant states), is really seems a shame that this time responses to such a criminal endangerment of cultural heritage have been so lame…
We’d need to think sharply and act quickly: what can be done to avert this disaster?
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