At 06:47 AM 3/15/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Subject: Afghanistan
>>
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>> Subject: Afghanistan
>> Author: Thomas Behrens
>> Date: 3/7/01 3:27 PM
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>> UNESCO International Petition to Safeguard Afghanistan
>> Cultural Heritage
>>
>> We, the undersigned, plead for an immediate end to the
>> Taliban edict to 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 that
>> overwhelmingly have condemned these actions - in order to
>> explore proposals to safeguard this irreplaceable cultural
>> heritage from further, senseless destruction.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 1. Gustavo F Araoz, US/ICOMOS, Washington, DC, USA
>> 2. Thomas M Behrens, HABS/HAER - National Park Service, Washington,
>DC,
>> USA
>> 3. Tim Davis, HABS/HAER - National Park Service, Washington, DC USA
>> 4. Bill Stott, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
>> 5. Beverly Spicer, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
>> 6. Jeff Ragsdale, Austin, Texas
>> 7. Holger Schramm, Waikiki Aquarium, Honolulu, Hawaii
>> 8. Darcy Jones, Vajrapani Institute/U.Hawaii, Boulder Creek, ca
>> 9. Christopher Kolb, San Francisco, CA
>> 10.Karsang Lama,Dharmapala Centre,Durbar Marg,Kathmandu,Nepal.
>> 11.John O'Hern, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
>> 12.Michael Pollard, UniServity Gallery, london UK.
>> 13.Charlotte Cambridge, Zoology Student London UK.
>> 14.Rupert Williamson, Researcher, London UK
>> 15.St. John Costelloe, Law Student, Cambridge, UK.
>> 16. Sofia Amor, European Parliament, Brussels, B
>> 17. Charlotte Wilhelmsson, Stockholm Regional Office, Brussels, B
>> 18. Linda Berg, G=F6teborg University, G=F6teborg, S
>> 19. Ralph Kass, Chambre des d=E9put=E9s, Luxembourg, L
>> 20.Anouk Wies, NYC, USA
>> 21.Noriko Takahashi, The City University of New York, NY
>> 22.Diana Wall, The City University of New York, NY
>> 23.Robert L. Schuyler, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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