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Somalis build mosque on cemetery (Atrocities Alert)
Somalia
January 2005
Somali militiamen have begun building a mosque on the site of an Italian colonial-era cemetery in Mogadishu, which they desecrated last week.

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The plight of Jews in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
January 2005 (1998-2005)
both remaining Jews survived the Taliban's five-year reign is something of a miracle...the Taliban had ransacked the synagogue for almost all items of value it still contained, including a silver pointer and four tiny silver bells. A few months later, a Taliban commander confiscated its last, most precious treasure: a handwritten Torah scroll that Simintov estimates was about 400 years old.