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| UNESCO, ISESCO condemn ISIL demolition of Iraq's Hatra |
| 2015-03-08 |
| [Iran Press TV] The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) have denounced the demolition of Iraq's ancient city of Hatra by ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists. "This is a direct attack against the history of Islamic Arab cities, and it confirms the role of destruction of heritage in the propaganda of myrmidon groups," said UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova and ISESCO Director General Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri in a joint statement on Saturday. According to Iraqi officials and residents, the ISIL holy warriors carried out two kabooms at the site of Hatra earlier in the day and then began bulldozing the 2,000-year-old city, which is located about 110 kilometers (70 miles) southwest of the bad boy-held city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... "The destruction of Hatra marks a turning point in the appalling strategy of cultural cleansing underway in Iraq," the statement added. The officials also expressed their preparedness to "respond to this emergency and stand ready to assist the Iraqi authorities in any possible way." In a statement posted on Facebook, the Iraqi Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed the attack, saying, "The slow support of the international community to Iraq has encouraged holy warriors to commit another crime of damaging and stealing antiquities in Hatra." The destruction came two days after the ISIL "bulldozed" the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, south of Mosul. UNESCO denounced the attack as "cultural cleansing" and said "the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage constitutes a war crime." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I'm sure IS really gives a damn. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-03-08 01:02 |