The attack on foreign nationals took place in Bamyan province of Afghanistan. Some foreigners visit the site with the remnants of massive Buddhist statues mostly destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/MsEfG

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    2 months ago

    A lot of people have a kind of weird fascination with very different societies. I’d love to visit Afghanistan, North Korea, and the Soviet Union (back when it existed), but I know that would be really, really stupid of me.