Why ISIS’s destruction of antiquities hurts so much
Boston Glove
March 15, 2015
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Iraq is the site of innumerable artifacts and antiquities from various cultures, all of which are now under threat from ISIS. Pictured: An excavation site southease of Mosul.
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The tactic of destroying the archeological record is not exclusive to ISIS. Pictured: These cliffs once held giant Buddhas that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 in central Afghanistan.
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ISIS militants are seen in this still image taken from a video destroying artifacts in the Mosul Museum.
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The gleeful nature of the propaganda suggests that perhaps the group’s leaders know that the destruction of antiquities will provoke the kind of global outrage the organization seems to relish.
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Nuri Kino, an Assyrian now living in Sweden, has founded a group to call attention to the plight of minorities in Syria and Iraq. “They want to erase us, our history, people, and religion,” he said.
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