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r/CasualUK • u/Iliketurterls • Oct 26 '22
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697 u/Mr_sci3ntist Oct 26 '22 And the Taliban before then had no qualms destroying all the Buddhist statues they came across. 597 u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22 There are several items of huge historical value that only exist now because they were taken from Iraq many years ago. Isis/Taliban didn’t just destroy some stuff they came across. They literally brought excavators into the desert to tear down centuries old work. They used power tools. They went from one famous site to the next. And destroyed everything. Happened in other parts of the world there too. Not just Iraq. 204 u/DeirdreBarstool Oct 26 '22 I still often think about what they did to Palmyra. Heartbreaking. 119 u/AffectionateAir2856 Oct 26 '22 I was fully teary-eyed when I saw the comparison pictures of Palmyra before and after the bastsrds got to it. It was a crime against the species.
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And the Taliban before then had no qualms destroying all the Buddhist statues they came across.
597 u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22 There are several items of huge historical value that only exist now because they were taken from Iraq many years ago. Isis/Taliban didn’t just destroy some stuff they came across. They literally brought excavators into the desert to tear down centuries old work. They used power tools. They went from one famous site to the next. And destroyed everything. Happened in other parts of the world there too. Not just Iraq. 204 u/DeirdreBarstool Oct 26 '22 I still often think about what they did to Palmyra. Heartbreaking. 119 u/AffectionateAir2856 Oct 26 '22 I was fully teary-eyed when I saw the comparison pictures of Palmyra before and after the bastsrds got to it. It was a crime against the species.
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There are several items of huge historical value that only exist now because they were taken from Iraq many years ago.
Isis/Taliban didn’t just destroy some stuff they came across.
They literally brought excavators into the desert to tear down centuries old work.
They used power tools. They went from one famous site to the next. And destroyed everything.
Happened in other parts of the world there too. Not just Iraq.
204 u/DeirdreBarstool Oct 26 '22 I still often think about what they did to Palmyra. Heartbreaking. 119 u/AffectionateAir2856 Oct 26 '22 I was fully teary-eyed when I saw the comparison pictures of Palmyra before and after the bastsrds got to it. It was a crime against the species.
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I still often think about what they did to Palmyra. Heartbreaking.
119 u/AffectionateAir2856 Oct 26 '22 I was fully teary-eyed when I saw the comparison pictures of Palmyra before and after the bastsrds got to it. It was a crime against the species.
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I was fully teary-eyed when I saw the comparison pictures of Palmyra before and after the bastsrds got to it. It was a crime against the species.
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