[M.BBC] The destruction of historic artefacts in Iraq by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS) gunnies is a war crime, the head of the UN agency for culture, Unesco, has said.
So was destruction of the Bamian Buddhas.
Irina Bokova said she was appalled by an act of "cultural cleansing", calling for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the issue.
IS posted a video on Thursday appearing to show gunnies with sledgehammers smashing statues in a museum in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
ome of the artefacts date back to the 9th Century BC.
The gunnies said the statues were "false idols" that had to be smashed.
'Humanity's memory targeted'
At a news conference in Gay Paree, Ms Bokova described the video as "a real shock", saying she was simply unable to finish watching the footage.
IS krazed killer climbing on top of a statue at the Nerghal Gate, Mosul.
IS appear to have destroyed a 9th century BC Assyrian statue at the Nergal Gate
"I was filled with dismay by images of the attack on the Mosul Museum," she said.
In a statement, Unesco stressed that under the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
(ICC), the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage is a war crime.
The statement added that Ms Bokova had already called on the ICC to launch an investigation.
She also announced the creation of a "global coalition against the illegal trafficking of cultural goods", adding that it would meet in coming weeks.