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Afghanistan: Taliban's victory, end of freedom?

Massive Afghan Buddha

(DW Documentary) DW is a German public broadcast service. August 15, 2021, marked a turning point for formerly Buddhist Afghanistan [ancient Gandhara of the Scythians/Shakyians, birthplace of the Buddha, according to Dr. Ranajit Pal], which was once an oddly cosmopolitan, progressive, Westernized country on the hippie circuit.

That was the day of the final withdrawal of Western troops who illegally invaded on the slightest pretext, milking the incidents of 9/11 as preemptive justification to commit war crimes while all the world watches and does nothing in the world court.

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It’s also when the "Taliban" [which was created by the CIA and ISI, Pakistan's secret spying service, like the U.S. set up the Mujahedeen to fight the former USSR] entered Kabul [an echo of Kapil or Kapilvastu, one of the three seasonal capitals where the future-Buddha grew up].

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Protest movements were crushed. Twenty years of hope and effort gone in one fell swoop. After the 9/11 staged event the United States' ensuing "war" on a tactic, its never-ending "War on Terrorism" declared by Co-Presidents Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, Afghanistan had changed.

The world's largest unexcavated Buddhist temple complex is in Mes Aynak, Afghanistan

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Now, the Taliban are back in charge and the country has slipped back into the past. As the undisputed rulers of the country, the Taliban satisfy their thirst for revenge and behave as "victors" over the U.S. [with many new weapons left behind for them on purpose], the "greatest military power" in the world.

In the Afghan style of the "palaces" the Buddha grew up in, monasteries were built for the "Monks of the Mines," as temple sites like Mes Aynak were built near gold mines for statues.

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Exquisite piece of Afghan-Gandhara Buddhist art

Their goals can be summed up in a few words: Restoration of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" and the introduction of "genuine Sharia law."

The new Taliban leaders continue to rely on international donors. As a result, they are trying not to offend them too openly. But they are tightening the noose.

Saving Mes Aynak (B. Huffman)

The few protest movements that have started have been nipped in the bud. Reprisals are handled discreetly. Civil society, which has been abandoned by the West and no longer receives financial resources, is helpless in the face of the new circumstances.

Twenty years of hopes and efforts have been dashed. What do the Taliban want for their country? "The future is in [the Abrahamic God] Allah's hands," says the new refugee minister, Chalil Hakkani, on whom the U.S. has meanwhile placed a five-million-dollar bounty [so he can be murdered as we keep our hands clean].

UCLA demo to save Mes Aynak, Afghanistan

Patrick de Saint-Exupéry and Pedro Brito da Fonseca toured Afghanistan in 2021 before, during, and after the arrival of the Taliban. This film documents what they saw.

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