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Unimagined barbarity: ISIL destroys world heritage

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By Web Desk Published February 28, 2015 2 Min Read
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French President Francois Hollande on Friday condemned the “barbaric” destruction by Islamic State militants of priceless ancient artefacts in Iraq’s city of Mosul.

“Barbarism affects people, history, memories, culture,” Hollande told reporters in Manila at the end of a two-day trip to the Philippines.

“What the terrorists want to do is destroy all of humanity.

“When you seek to destroy heritage, you intend to silence all those who carry a message of culture.”

Islamic State militants released a video on Thursday showing them destroying absolutely priceless and irreplaceable ancient artefacts armed with sledgehammers and jackhammers.

The video showed the militants knocking statues off their plinths and rampaging through the Mosul museum’s collection, which includes artefacts from the Assyrian and Hellenistic periods dating back to several centuries before Christ.

It also showed jihadists using a jackhammer to deface an imposing granite Assyrian winged bull at the Nergal Gate in Mosul.

“Muslims, these artefacts behind me are idols for people from ancient times who worshipped them instead of God,” said a bearded militant speaking to the camera.

The destruction sparked widespread consternation and alarm, with some archaeologists and heritage experts comparing it with the 2001 demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

The Delta between the Euphrates and the Tigris is referred to as the cradle of Human civilisations and great empires from the Sumerians to the assyrians have lived and died here. It was here that the world’s forst laws were created by the King Humunarabi

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