In Iraq, the Islamic State jihadi group reportedly destroyed archaeological remains to Hatra a hundred kilometers south of Mosul. So says this Saturday the Iraqi Ministry of Tourism.
Hatra is an old city 2,000 years, .
Witnesses tell onsite hearing explosions and bulldozers are used to destroy buildings.
If these testimonies are confirmed, it would mean that the jihadists are determined to demolish any part of the historical heritage. There are some days they attacked the .
The American is an expert on Central Asian heritage at the Drachman Institute, the University of Arizona. "My hope, she said, is that US forces and coalition troops try to protect site Nimrud, Hatra and Nineveh, although I am aware that the preservation of cultural heritage n is, in this situation, not necessarily the number 1 priority. "
There is a week jihadists released a , a museum hitherto known for its wealth of archaeological finds.
"The deliberate destruction of our common cultural heritage constitutes a war crime and an attack against humanity as a whole", recently stressed the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon ( ).
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