Foreign Ministry: ISIL Barbaric Attacks on Syria’s Cultural Heritage Target the Syrian National Identity, Memory

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DAMASCUS, (ST)- Syria has expressed its outrage at ISIL’s barbaric crime of destroying Palmyra’s ancient temple of Baal Shamin temple and killing chief archeologist Professor Khaled al-Assaad, who had looked after Palmyra’s ruins for four decades, an official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said on Wednesday.

The source said in a statement to SANA that the barbaric attacks and crimes committed by the terrorist organization calling itself the “Islamic States of Iraq and Levant” (ISIL) against the Syrian civilization and cultural heritage target the Syrian national identity and memory in addition to the Syrians’s great contribution to human civilization. These crimes also prove the takfiri nature of ISIL terrorist organization, the source added.

 

According to the source, the failure of the countries in the region and the world to implement the Security Council resolutions on terrorism fighting, particularly Resolution No. 2199 which calls for protecting the archeological monuments in Syria and Iraq, is main factor that has encouraged ISIL and other terrorist organizations to persist in perpetrating crimes against the cultural heritage in Syria and Iraq.

“The Syrian people, who are proud of their cultural contribution to humanity, are determined, today more than ever, to defend their achievements. They are calling on all peace-loving people in the world to mobilize efforts as to preserve the Syrian cultural heritage, which is a property to all humanity, and to work together to fight terrorism which poses serious threat to regional and international peace and stability and to human civilization and cultural heritage.

Hamda Mustafa  

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