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Source: AlJazeera
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters have used a bulldozer to start destroying a 3,000-year-old Assyrian city near Mosul in Iraq, archeologists and other sources have told Al Jazeera.
The reported demolition at Nimrud on Thursday comes less than a week after video was released showing ISIL fighters destroying ancient artefacts in a Mosul museum.
"They came at midday with a bulldozer and started destroying the palace," said an Iraqi official in touch with antiquities staff in Mosul.
Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/isil-fighters-bulldoze-ancient-assyrian-palace-iraq-150305195222805.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
This is nothing short of cultural genocide. And according to the article, these animals have stated that they're not done yet. So will the remaining archeological sites be protected?
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Tragic. But as it was with Dresden, or hundreds of architectural masterworks in Germany,
closeupready
Mar 2015
#2
Difference: The destruction of those German works was a byproduct, not the motivation itself. n/t
devils chaplain
Mar 2015
#9
It is their ancient culture also. The culture of Summer was first with the Assyrians gaining
DhhD
Mar 2015
#11
'Wiping out any trace of their existence' is their goal for all who don't surrender to them.
freshwest
Mar 2015
#35
Centuries? Death and destruction on a massive scale occurred in Iraq, 2003 to NOW....remember?
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#18
Wahhabist Terrorists are trying to insite Western Intellectuals by burning libraries and destroying
DhhD
Mar 2015
#7
It is the World's Culture that they are destoying. That Art belongs to the World.
Pooka Fey
Mar 2015
#34
Did you just argue that mental harm done to a people can merit use of the word "Genocide"? Blech.
Pooka Fey
Mar 2015
#41
Mental harm does not by itself determine whether or not genocide has occured.
Pooka Fey
Mar 2015
#45