Urging International Action, UNESCO Chief Condemns ISIL’s ‘Cultural Cleansing’ in Iraq

by Gary Kopycinski on February 28, 2015

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Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova briefs the press on the destruction of Heritage in Mosul, Iraq. Photo: UNESCO video capture

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–27 February 2015 – The head of the United Nations agency mandated to protect heritage sites has reiterated her dismay at the “destructive fury” exhibited by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in their recent assault on the Mosul Museum.