UNESCO Finally Shocked about Destruction of World Heritage Sites in Syria

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After more than two years of the crisis in Syria, the officials of UNESCO finally care about the destruction of history and cultural property in the country.

The United Nations (UN) and the officials of UNESCO are shocked about the damages to all the world heritage sites in Syria after they viewed several images of the destruction of some cultural heritage sites in the country, Martin Nesirky, spokesperson for UN secretary general, said on Tuesday, according to media reports.

“Irina Bokova, the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), said she was deeply shocked at news of further destruction of cultural heritage in Syria, particularly reports of damage to the Crac des Chevaliers, a World Heritage site,” said Nesirky.

Bokova has also called for an end to the damage to World Heritage sites in Syria, he added.

“Irina Bokova calls upon the perpetrators to cease the destruction immediately and urges all the parties in the conflict to take necessary measures to ensure the safeguarding of this World Heritage site along with all of Syria’s cultural property,” Nesirky said.

Bokova also made reference to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and asked all parties in crisis in Syria to avoid damaging the cultural property in the country.

The Crac des Chevaliers is among six sites in Syria recently inscribed to the UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger.

 “The danger listing is intended to mobilize all possible support for the safeguarding of these properties, which are recognized by the international community as being of outstanding universal value for humanity as a whole,” UNESCO said in the statement.

The foreign-backed terrorists and especially the Takfiri militants and Al Qaeda-linked groups have great hostility to education and culture.

This destruction of World Heritage sites would not have taken place if the United Nations (UN) would have cared earlier about it and would have tried to stop the support by foreign powers for the terrorists and Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria from the beginning of the conflict and the foreign-waged proxy war and terrorism against Syria.

H. Mustafa

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