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Heritage sites need to be preserved: Manmohan

New Delhi (PTI): Cautioning that heritage sites around the world faced a renewed threat from fundamentalists and terrorists, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said awareness should be increased to preserve heritage structures even in a conflict situation.

"Fundamentalism in attitudes and beliefs often targets mankind's heritage structures and sites, leading to their destruction.

"The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan is only one sad and stark example of such threats to heritage preservation," he said, inaugurating the 12th International Conference of National Trusts here.

In recent years, heritage conservation saw renewed threats from fundamentalists, extremists and terrorists, Singh said, adding "there was a need to send a message across the globe that no one has the right to destroy what humanity has inherited from the past".

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