- PHOTO TAKEN 22SEP05 - An Afghan boy plays near dwellings carved into a rock in the valley of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan September 22, 2005. In 1999, [the Islamic fundamentalist movement that was then in control of most of Afghanistan, declared the statues and grottoes idolatrous and un-Islamic, and in March 2001, they used artillery and explosives to demolish the Great Buddha and another large statue]. Picture taken on September 22, 2005.