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Joe Penney / Reuters
An Islamist fighter has pleaded guilty in the
Hague for destroying parts of the fabled West African trading city of
Timbuktu, in the International Criminal Court’s first case based on the
destruction of cultural artifacts.
Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi has admitted today (Aug
22) to razing all but two of the city’s 16 mausoleums as well as a
mosque dating back to 1400 during a raid by Islamist radicals in 2012.
Ahmad told the tribunal in the Netherlands that he regretted “the damage
[his] actions have caused.” Read more...
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Showing posts with label historical monument preservation. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Destroying History Is Now Being Charged As A War Crime
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