ISIS pillaging Iraqi cultural artifacts, UNESCO warns

[ginger_maya]

PARIS: ISIS jihadists occupying parts of Iraq are destroying age-old heritage sites and looting others to sell valued artifacts on the black market, experts gathered at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters warned Monday.

The extremist group has destroyed shrines, churches and precious manuscripts in Mosul, Tikrit and other areas of Iraq it controls and

Comments

[sio]

oh fuck these scum. seriously.

wish there was a way for museum teams working with the museum staffs there to go in under guard and pack up the artifacts not nailed down (i.e. not the buildings/monuments) and carry it out of the country and hold it somewhere safe until this was over so the history is not lost.

[nesmith]

The more I read, the more I really hate these people.

[yamamanama]

I hate the Syrian Arab Republic more for propping them up until it backfired on them.