Destruction of everything that Islamic State doesn't approve of included the ancient sculpture in yesterday's post . . plus 100,000 books and manuscripts at libraries.
Head of United Nations' UNESCO says it has been “one of the most devastating acts of destruction of library collections in human history.”
She added: “This destruction marks a new phase in the cultural cleansing . . that seeks to wipe out the cultural diversity that is the soul of the Iraqi people.”
At Mosul University (Iraq), the colleges of law, phy ed, political science, languages, social science, were all closed when Islamic State took over last summer. Their libraries were looted and vandalized.
What to do with that now empty college space? Easy. "The classrooms of the closed colleges and departments are now the sleeping quarters for Isis fighters, and are used as storage for their weapons cache."
(from theguardian.com, U.S. edition)
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