Hi,
I was reading an article about the destruction of archaeological sites.
"In March 2001, the world stood still and watched the Taliban blow up two 1500-year-old standing Buddha statues, the tallest in the world, on a cliff in central Afghanistan."
This was a terrible incident that the Taliban did but in 2007, IKEA (yes the IKEA) was making a store in Nanjing, China where they came upon ten ancient tombs. Under the Chinese law, companies found destroying ancient tombs can be fined 50,000 to 500,000 yuan (around $6,6k - $65k). IKEA took the financial hit and destroyed the 10 ancient tombs.
The UN Security Council imposed sanctions on the Taliban. If the Taliban got sanctions for destroying archaeology (which they deserved), why were there no sanctions imposed on IKEA?
What do you think?
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