As well as firing artillery to destroy ancient buddhas, the iconoclastic Taliban decreed that all art representing living beings be destroyed. Fortunately the staff of the natioanl gallery were forewarned and hid as many pictures as they could. These on display in this case were not hidden but torn up by the Taliban's art appreciation society who told the staff to burn them. Rags were burned instead. So here we have a showcase of what happens when the Taliban visit an art gallery.
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