Al-Jaafari: Aggression against Syria’s Cultural Edifices Proves Terrorist groups’ Extremist Barbaric Mentality

NEW YORK, (ST) – Syria’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations has underlined that the crimes perpetrated by armed terrorists groups in Syria against archeological and cultural edifices in different Syrian provinces add more evidence of these al-Qaeda-linked terrorist groups’ barbaric and extremist mentality and show the kind of culture of which these extremists and foreign mercenaries are promising the open-minded Syrian society.

 In a letter sent to the UN Chief and President of the Security Council on the armed terrorist groups’ crimes against Syria’s civilization edifices, al-Jaafari said “the Syrian government holds terrorist groups in Syria and the countries which support extremist and takfiri groups, completely responsible for the damage caused or to be caused to Syrian archeological and cultural sites.”

He added that the terrorist and takfiri groups have escalated their attacks on cultural and historical edifices in the country as a result of collusion by some foreign and regional countries which have encouraged armed groups and mercenaries to attack archeological sites, steal antiquities and then smuggle them out of the country.

 H. Mustafa