The International Association for Religious Freedom

On Maldives fundamentalists’ destruction of Buddhist ‘idols’

 

The Maldives’ National Museum was the scene of the destruction, as a group of five men deliberately targeted artefacts from the Maldives pre-Islamic era, destroying Buddhist relics.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/319497

 

 

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