KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s CULTURAL GENOCIDE is complete. In a final, BRUTAL act of ERASURE, the iconic Ariana Cinema—a 60-year-old beacon of hope, art, and escape for a war-torn people—has been REDUCED TO DUST.
This was NO bureaucratic demolition. This was a DELIBERATE assassination of memory, a final blow to Afghanistan’s soul by the very regime the world naively tries to “engage.” While officials spew empty promises, their bulldozers systematically ANNIHILATE every last vestige of joy and shared history. The cinema that withstood Soviet shells and civil war could not survive the Taliban’s VENDETTA against imagination.
“All the signs of historical Afghanistan are being destroyed,” warns an exiled filmmaker, his voice trembling with betrayed rage. But the regime’s mouthpieces offer only cold, corporate justification: the land is now for a shopping complex. PROFIT OVER PEOPLE. CONCRETE OVER CULTURE. This is the Taliban’s true “progress”—a sterile hellscape where joy is a capital crime and the only show in town is obedience.
Generations of memories—first dates, childhood wonder, a nation’s collective sigh of relief—are now entombed in the rubble. For decades, this theater was a sanctuary where Afghans could dream beyond the barbed wire; now, it is a graveyard for those dreams, paved over for a mall NO ONE ASKED FOR.
The world watches, tweets its condolences, and moves on. But the silent, chilling question remains: when a regime can so effortlessly BURY the last flicker of light from an entire era, what hope is left for the living?
Author: Kayitsi.com
