Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts

The Guardian, ^ | Monday 28 January 2013 12.07 EST | Luke Harding in Sévaré

[CtBigPat]

I remember watching a TV show about the library there and thinking “Somebody should digitize those manuscripts before some fool destroys them”. Now they are gone forever.

[wjcsux]

It’s a real shame the Crusaders didn’t have nukes.

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[colorado tanker]

Barbarian animals.

Hopefully they are as bad at burning libraries as they were at conquering Mali.