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Taliban replace statue of Hazara leader in Bamiyan with Koran / V000_9RG2D4
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The Taliban have replaced the statue of a Hazara leader declared a national martyr by the former government with a replica of the Koran -- a move they warned could trigger violence. The original statue depicted Abdul Ali Mazari, a leader of the mostly Shiite minority killed while he was a prisoner of the Taliban during their first stint in power. The statue was decapitated by a rocket-propelled grenade soon after the Taliban returned to power in August, in an incident residents of the city in central Afghanistan blamed on the hardline Islamists. IMAGES