IS destroys temple at Palmyra ruins in Syria

[Rajkumar]

 

[crimemaster_gogo]

Spot the difference.

Good terrorist bad terrorists - a millenium old game of hypocrisy. Soon at a temple near you.

Forgot the name of the temple, it's in kashmir, recently featured in the movie "haider ".


And they shed crocodile tears pointing at babri masjid which was infact built upon a destroyed Lord Raam temple. What gives them such mentality? Can you guess?

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

Another uncivilized act committed by the terrorists claiming to be Muslims. First it was Talibans blowing up Buddah statues now ISIS supported by Zionazis. Pakistan supported Talibans created a model for ISIS that are defaming Islam and Muslims. The ISI still supports the Talibans that is terrorizing Muslims in Afghanistan while ISI terrorizing Muslims in Syria and Iraq. Who needs enemies when we have friends like these !

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Forgot the name of the temple, it's in kashmir, recently featured in the movie "haider ".


And they shed crocodile tears pointing at babri masjid which was infact built upon a destroyed Lord Raam temple. What gives them such mentality? Can you guess?

Martand Sun Temple.

Nothing surprising at all for Indians. Our history is filled up with Muslims kings attacking and destroying hundreds of thousands of temples and such historic sites for centuries. They remain hero for same people who r now criticizing IS of carrying similar horrific acts in Syria & Iraq...someone define irony !!

Exactly. This is common. Almost like history repeating in cycles.

 

[Hindustani78]

 

[MarkusS]

They are desperate. They have no future and Palmyra represents something they can never achieve. Greatness.

They will rott away but the temple will be rebuild.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Not an issue I am more concerned about Muslim shrines and mosques like Tariq bin ziyad
This temple don't care much about there are plenty such buildings in Italy

The so called temple was already crumbling anyways

 

[Hindustani78]

IS blows up tower tombs at Syria`s Palmyra: Antiquities chief | Zee News
Last Updated: Friday, September 4, 2015 - 14:52

Damascus: Jihadists of the Islamic State group have blown up three of the famed tower tombs of Syria`s ancient desert city of Palmyra, antiquities department chief Maamoun Abdelkarim told AFP Friday.


"They blew up three tower tombs, the best preserved and most beautiful," he said.

The new destruction at the world-renowned site, captured by the jihadists in May, follows their demolition of the ancient shrine of Baal Shamin and the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel.

AFP

 

[Hindustani78]

Syria secures 300,000 artefacts | Zee News
Last Updated: Sunday, September 6, 2015 - 14:50
Damascus: Syrian authorities have secured 300,000 artefacts from archaeological sites across the country, the country`s antiquities chief said.

Maamoun Abdulkarim, head of the antiquities and museums department in Damascus, said the secured artefacts include 400 statues from the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, Xinhua news agency repoted on Sunday.

He said 95 percent of the artefacts of Palmyra were secured.

Palmyra, Syria`s millennia-old oasis city, was stormed by the IS in May. Since then, several ancient temples and tombs have been destroyed.

Reports said the secured artefacts have been relocated to safe areas inside the capital Damascus.

IANS

 

[Hindustani78]

Syria archaeological sites looted `on industrial scale`: UNESCO | Zee News

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 16:08
Sofia: Archaeological sites in Syria are being looted "on an industrial scale" and the proceeds from the plunder are funding Islamic State extremists, the head of UNESCO warned Wednesday.


"Satellite imagery shows that archaeological sites in Syria are dotted by thousands of illegal excavations... that show there is looting on an industrial scale," Irina Bokova said in Sofia.

"Limiting the trafficking in cultural property is a top priority because it finances the actions of the extremists," she told a conference.

"The world expects from us to undertake decisive and uncompromising actions... to stop this source of funding for the extremists."

In four years of civil war and with Islamic State controlling large swathes of the country, the Association for the Protection of Syrian Archaeology (APSA) says that more than 900 monuments and archeological sites have been looted, damaged or destroyed.

The jihadists have blown up several famed tower tombs at the UNESCO-listed world heritage site of Palmyra, which they captured in May.

In August, they murdered the 82-year-old retired head of antiquities in Palmyra, Khaled al-Assad, and hung his mutilated body in public.

Bokova said the destruction at Palmyra "is an impudent crime against civilisation because it was a symbol of cultural dialogue, a material proof of the ability of cultures to interact... This is what the extremists are seeking to destroy."

Bokova urged the European Union to strengthen its legislation in relation to the import of cultural property, adding to a panoply of tough EU measures.

Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the conference, she however noted that artworks from Syria were trafficked "globally, and not just to Europe and the United States."

"The first important step on the international level is the ratification and implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention of the means of prohibiting and preventing the illicit import, export and transfer of ownership of cultural property," Bokova said.

A total of 129 countries, including Syria, have already ratified the convention but the UNESCO head said "only comprehensive ratification will make it fully effective."

Bokova also stressed the need for a global campaign "to counter the propaganda for cultural cleansing" waged by Islamic State.


AFP


First Published: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 16:08

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Very unfortunate.

 

[Falcon29]

More peace from the something of peace. This cult is worse than anything the world has ever seen. We must unite to eradicate it once and for all.

Dude you belong in mental asylum...or simply have nothing better to do. Young adult should be positive and enjoy life. Every minute of your life you want to 'eradicate it once and for all', imagine 70 years that way, you'd look back and regret such a boring lifestyle.

 

[Hindustani78]

'Palmyra citadel damaged by Syria regime bombing: Expert | Zee News
Last Updated: Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 16:56

Beirut: Heavy regime bombardment has damaged parts of the ancient citadel in Syria's world heritage site of Palmyra, an archeological expert and an activist said today.


At least 13 barrel bombs have exploded on the citadel and its surroundings since Monday, according to Cheikhmous Ali of the Association for the Protection of Syrian Archeology, which monitors damage to the country's heritage sites.

"We have not been able to assess the extent of the damage, but it is confirmed that parts of the citadel have been damaged by this bombing," Ali told AFP.

Syria's army is fighting to retake the city and its UNESCO-listed ruins from the Islamic State group, which overran the historic metropolis in May.

The regime, bolstered by Russian deliveries of new arms including warplanes, has intensified its air strikes on Palmyra over the past week, with dozens reported dead.

IS jihadists have raised their black flag over the 13th century Mamluk Fakhr al-Din al-Maani citadel, which lies northwest of the city and overlooks some of its spectacular Greco-Roman ruins.

Both the citadel and the ruins are on the UNESCO World Heritage list, and before the war around 150,000 tourists a year visited Palmyra.

Khaled al-Homsi, an activist from Palmyra, said regime bombardment had caused "widespread destruction of the citadel's walls," estimating that around 25 percent of the castle's walls had been damaged.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said the citadel had suffered "material damage" from "air strikes and heavy fire from regime airplanes on the citadel and its surroundings".

IS has sparked international outrage at its destruction of parts of Palmyra's heritage, including the celebrated Temples of Bel and Baal Shamin as well as several funerary towers.

The jihadists mined the ancient site in June before destroying the Lion Statue of Athena outside the Palmyra museum, which had mostly been cleared by antiquities staff before IS arrived.

AFP


First Published: Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 16:56

 

[Hindustani78]

IS group destroys ancient Palmyra arch - The Hindu
Updated: October 5, 2015 08:08 IST

Syrian activists say Islamic State militants have destroyed a nearly 2,000-year-old arch in the ancient city of Palmyra, the latest victim in the group's campaign to destroy historic sites across the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria.

The Arch of Triumph was one of the most recognisable sites in Palmyra, which the IS group seized in May. The monumental arch sat atop the famed colonnaded streets of the ancient city, which linked the Roman Empire to Persia.

An opposition activist who uses the name Khaled al-Homsi posted on Twitter late yesterday that the militants destroyed the arch.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the group blew up the arch but left the colonnades in place.

Militants also recently blew up two famed First Century temples in Palmyra.

 

[Hindustani78]

IS blows up columns in Syria's Palmyra to execute 3: monitor
Beirut, Oct 27, 2015, (AFP):

The Islamic State jihadist group executed three people in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra by binding them to three historic columns and blowing them up, a monitoring group has said.

Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said IS on Sunday "tied three individuals it had arrested from Palmyra and its outskirts to the columns... and executed them by blowing up" three columns.

Khaled al-Homsi, an activist from Palmyra, said IS had yet to inform local residents who the executed individuals were or why they had been killed.

"There was no one there to see (the execution). The columns were destroyed and IS has prevented anyone from heading to the site," Homsi told AFP yesterday.

Since the jihadists seized Palmyra from regime forces in May, they have destroyed multiple sites and historic artefacts, including its celebrated temples of Bel and Baal Shamin as well as several funerary towers.

IS has used Palmyra's grand amphitheatre for a massacre in which child members of the group killed 25 Syrian soldiers, execution-style, in front of residents.

It also beheaded Palmyra's 82-year-old former antiquities director in August.


Palmyra's ruins are on the UNESCO World Heritage list, and before the war around 150,000 tourists a year visited the town.