The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have
the wider vision
(George Eliot)
Published on 18 March 2011
Type: Report
De Volkskrant correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Nathalie Righton, reports extensively on the how Afghanistan got robbed of its heritage and plundered. She interviewed the program specialist Brendan Cassar from the UNESCO office in Kabyl, the director of the National Museum in Kabul, Masoudi and Rene Teijgeler from Culture in Development, Netherlands.
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