International Criminal Court Opens First Trial For Cultural Destruction

“In the first case of its kind, the alleged Malian jihadi leader Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi … is charged by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague with razing nine mausoleums and the 15th-century Sidi Yahia mosque in Timbuktu in northern Mali.”

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