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28/12/2015

The destruction of the Eastern heritage: The logic of retaliatory violence? (DIEEEM34-2015)

During the spring and summer of 2015, the Daesh violence reached higher levels in the destruction of Heritage in Syria and Iraq, even including the ritual murder of some of the former Antiquities protectors in the region. This analysis also shows that violent acts have been previously produced along the Syrian civil war, and curiously in the remote past of the Eastern Mediterranean. Several medical and anthropological explanations are offered here.

Author: Jesús Gil Fuensanta & Alejandro Lorca

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