Crime of the century

Article Abstract:

Afghanistan's civil war has devastated its national museum in Kabul, first when weapons targeted the building starting in May 1993, then when looters stole or destroyed 90% of its holdings. Once it was the premier repository of knowledge and artifacts relating to 50,000 years of Central Asia's history, but tens of thousands of items have been looted, the best already sold to collectors around the world, never to be retrieved. By some accounts the trade in those antiquities is second only to heroin as a money earner.

Museums and art galleries, Museums & Art Galleries, Museums, Afghanistan, Art museums, Art thefts

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Southern safety: civil war drives Tajik refugees to Afghanistan

Article Abstract:

Islamic Tajiks are fleeing toward thecold northern plains of Afghanistan to escape the civil war in Tajikistan. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has already stepped in to help the 13,000 Tajik refugees in Afghanistan. With the pro-communist Tajik and other Central Asian forces sympathetic to Pres Ali Rakhmanov clashing against the Islamic Renaissance Party and the Democratic Party, neighboring countries are in dangerof being drawn into the conflict.

International aspects, Military policy, Civil war, Tajikistan, Refugees, Religious, Religious refugees

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