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Destruction of Timbuktu Manuscripts is an Offence Against the Whole of Africa

28 Monday Jan 2013

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Mali - Travel - Tradition - Manuscripts of the DesertThe reported destruction of two important manuscript collections by Islamist rebels as they fled Timbuktu is an offence to the whole of Africa and its universally important cultural heritage. Like their systematic destruction of 300 Sufi saints’ shrines while they held Timbuktu at their mercy, it is an assault on world heritage comparable with the demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan by the Taliban in 2001.

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Mali Rebels Torch Library of Historic Manuscripts

28 Monday Jan 2013

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French army in MaliIslamist insurgents retreating from Timbuktu set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless historic manuscripts, according to the Saharan town’s mayor, in an incident he described as a “devastating blow” to world heritage. Hallé Ousmani Cissé told the Guardian that al-Qaida-allied fighters on Saturday torched two buildings that held the manuscripts, some of which dated back to the 13th century.

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