The alleged destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, March 2001

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The alleged destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, March 2001

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[I moved this from the "Social Engineering" thread ~nonhocapito]
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Dcopymope wrote: The main difference is what form of propaganda is used to mold opinions versus what is used to condition the public to react to certain stimuli or events, by creating the psychological climate for it. The latter is Hollywood's job, the former comes after the pre-propaganda phase which is direct propaganda or direct action. Basically, Hollywood's job is not necessarily to mold peoples opinions on anything.
Could we throw down some good examples of 'opinion molding' versus 'stimuli reaction' to really paint a full picture?
Not sure how relevant this is but I remember in the late 90s [?] the 'Beeb' constantly showing images of the Taliban destroying the Stone Buddhas in Afghanistan using artillery/explosives until all that was left were giant recesses in the cliff/rock face.
Not long afterwards, 9/11 came along, allegedly carried out by mostly Saudis out of the '19' [not just OBL] and what happens?
Afghanistan is invaded and the Taliban targeted.
The public opinion here was along the lines of 'Mad Taliban, destroying nice pretty statues of Buddha' to 'Bad Taliban, attacking us, let's attack them'.
I believe the public was 'prepped' beforehand to readily accept what was going to transpire.
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pov603 wrote:Not sure how relevant this is but I remember in the late 90s [?] the 'Beeb' constantly showing images of the Taliban destroying the Stone Buddhas in Afghanistan using artillery/explosives until all that was left were giant recesses in the cliff/rock face.
Not long afterwards, 9/11 came along, allegedly carried out by mostly Saudis out of the '19' [not just OBL] and what happens?
Afghanistan is invaded and the Taliban targeted.
The public opinion here was along the lines of 'Mad Taliban, destroying nice pretty statues of Buddha' to 'Bad Taliban, attacking us, let's attack them'.
I believe the public was 'prepped' beforehand to readily accept what was going to transpire.
Thanks for reminding me of this episode!

A brief research seem to indicate that the destruction of the Buddah Statues allegedly happened in March 2001.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0301-04.htm
An edict announced Monday by the militia's supreme leader, Mulla Mohammad Omar, calling for the destruction of all statues in line with "Islamic" laws, has caused shock around the world.
I found a couple of propaganda videos showing very briefly the statues exploding.


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D-z6sTs3pU

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-oaUqvAS8

More information comes from wickedpedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of ... March_2001

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It is strange how the images of the explosions could easily be fake, while the images of the empty sites seem real. Maybe the statue were simply removed (bigger monuments have been moved in the past).

Just consider how "clean" the niches look. No signs of explosions. And yet the explosives were allegedly powerful enough to pulverize rocks identical to the ones that compose the niches. How could the destruction be so neat? Why the Talebans should care for such neat holes?

These seem to be psychological "hollows" more than remains of a destruction.

If this was a psyop event, it seems hard to imagine the pigs in charge, who consider themselves best entitled to inherit the earth, to actually go and destroy this ancient, unique site.

Maybe it is my wishful thinking again, but... Smell of fakery?
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Yeah, those niches look way too 'clean' after being bombarded by artillery and explosives in place.
It would have been so much easier to have 'blocked up' the images with concrete or brickwork/blockwork or even allowed westerners to remove the statues after paying a suitable price for them.
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A swiss filmmaker also made a documentary about this event, "The Giant Buddhas".

The trailer of the movie also shows the explosions, in what I believe are the two only brief clips in which these are visible (I made a gif of it for our convenience):

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From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip2NDXKE1DY

Is it believable for the niches to remain unscathed by these explosions?
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Re: The alleged destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, March 20

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Oh wow, we must have been tuned into the same wavelength guys :D I was thinking about this a little while ago (reminded by the Bin Ladin - Afghanistan connection). Yep, I smell bullshit too!
The giant statues at Abu Simbel were cut into jigsaw pieces and reassembled on higher ground to make way for the Aswan Dam. Maybe these were too, who knows — it's such a remote place with no one to see. Hey, maybe they are really still there and those huge empty niches are some place else! :lol:

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"Smaller Bamyan Buddha from base, Afghanistan 1977-08-10 - 10 August 1977 Author: Phecda109"
@ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bamya ... ller_1.jpg
Ref page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan
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A compelling story.

See if the Buddhists - who are supposed to be detached from Earth's physical realities in some way - are hypocritically angered by the apparent wanton destruction of their God.

This would only anger pseudo-Buddhists, of which there are many in America.
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