Light Show Pays Tribute To Bamiyan Buddhas Destroyed By Taliban 20 Years Ago

Twenty years after the Taliban blew up two famous Buddha statues, Afghans commemorated their loss at a ceremony in the central Bamiyan Valley on March 9. As part of the commemorations by the Night with the Buddha project, a lantern-lit procession led to the base of the sandstone cliff where the statues once stood alongside caves, monasteries, and shrines.