Looting of Iraq's museums amounts to cultural, human catastrophe, Moroccan press
Iraq-USA, Politics, 4/18/2003

Several Moroccan paper considered on Thursday that the looting and pillaging of Iraq's museums, following the US-British invasion, amounts to a cultural and human catastrophe.

The papers called for protecting Iraq's cultural heritage as stipulated by the international conventions that provide for the preservation of such patrimony during times of war and of peace.

This catastrophe has "no precedent" in modern times, writes "Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki" noting that occupation forces aim to destroy landmarks of the ancient civilisation of Mesopotamia.

"Liberation" wrote that the United States "in its capacity as an occupying force has the duty to guarantee the security of civil populations and defend Iraq's cultural heritage as stipulated by the Geneva Convention."

"The aggressions on the civil populations, libraries, universities, hospitals and museums took place in the presence of US forces which failed to react," adds the paper.

Echoing the same view, "Al Haraka" called for the protection of the human heritage in Iraq, recalling that Iraq's civilisation is one of the rarest of its kind that bears testimony to the evolution of human history.

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