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Stolen Bangladeshi Vishnu relics found in pieces in garbage [ R.O.P. alert? ]
Monsters and Critics ^ | Friday, December 28, 2007 | Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Posted on 01/01/2008 3:57:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Security forces in Bangladesh have recovered the two missing Hindu Vishnu relics from a garbage dump on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, Cultural Ministry officials said Friday.

The ancient artifacts, broken into pieces, were retrieved from the dump after it was apparently stolen from the airport about a week ago, a senior security officer said.

The authorities suspect the images were smashed into pieces to avoid countrywide police surveillance after a state of high alert was announced soon after the relics were found missing.

'The seventh century statues of Lord Vishnu were fragmented into 13 pieces before these were abandoned by a suspected crime ring at the airport,' said Major Khairul Anam of the elite Rapid Action Battalion which led the search operation.

Eight people, including a former lawmaker, were detained overnight by police for interrogation.

Sources said the disclosures by the detainees to police led to the recovery of the ancient relics.

The National Museum authorities confirmed that the broken pieces were from the stolen relics ending a week-long hunt.

Bangladeshi officials claimed the priceless artifacts were stolen from the airport when it was being loaded on an Air France cargo flight along with more than 140 other museum pieces.

The artifacts were to be displayed at an exposition in France arranged by the Paris museum Guimet.

France-Bangladesh relations were under strain as Bangladesh unilaterally cancelled its accord with France on cooperation between the museums of the two countries.

Officials of both countries blamed one another for not taking adequate security during the shipment of the relics.

Bangladesh's Culture Ministry head Dr Ayub Quadri resigned from office, accepting moral responsibility for the theft of the Vishnu relics.

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Earlier, the French had agreed to return everything that had been borrowed for the exhibition -- despite the fact that the missing stuff was stolen before it left Bangladesh.
1 posted on 01/01/2008 3:58:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 01/01/2008 4:01:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: SunkenCiv

Vishnu will not be pleased.


3 posted on 01/01/2008 4:24:18 PM PST by festus (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: SunkenCiv

Muslims like Communists cannot exist without destroying everything that was before their invasions.

Some of the worst destruction of religious relics have been perpetrated by the Muslim Turks in Asia Minor now called Turkey.


4 posted on 01/01/2008 4:50:01 PM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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Some of the worst destruction of religious relics have been perpetrated by the Muslim Turks in Asia Minor now called Turkey.

If it is non-Islamic, it is pagan, therefore not religious; if it is Islamic, then it is an idol: either way, it must be destroyed, lest it lead a Muslim into sin.
We could also destroy our women, rather than just cover them, for the same reason; but that would not be expedient, because there are times when a goat just won't do.

5 posted on 01/01/2008 9:14:00 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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