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In reply to the discussion: ISIL fighters bulldoze ancient Assyrian palace in Iraq [View all]Pooka Fey
(3,496 posts)37. We can agree to disagree
You don't have to agree with me, most people don't. I think genocide should only refer to killing humans. I don't know what to call the deliberate destruction of history and culture as a primary political objective.
As I plan to start studying Archeology in the Fall, I am deeply angered by this practice.
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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