{"id":1747,"date":"2015-08-24T22:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/1747-un-chief-appalled-by-barbaric-attacks-in-palmyra.html"},"modified":"2015-08-24T22:35:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:35:01","slug":"un-chief-appalled-by-barbaric-attacks-in-palmyra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/1747-un-chief-appalled-by-barbaric-attacks-in-palmyra.html","title":{"rendered":"UN chief appalled by 'barbaric' attacks in Palmyra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n             UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he was appalled by reports that Islamic State militants had demolished a temple in Syria's ancient Palmyra.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            IS fighters packed explosives in the Baal Shamin temple and blew up the shrine on Sunday, Syria's antiquities chief said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Ban also voiced outrage over the murder of Khaled al-Assaad, the retired chief archeologist at Palmyra whose body was mutilated after he was beheaded on August 18.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            \"These barbaric acts of terror join a long list of crimes committed over the past four years in Syria against its civilian population and heritage,\" Ban said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Palmyra is listed as a world heritage site by the UN cultural body UNESCO, and Ban recalled that destroying world cultural sites was a war crime.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The UN chief called on world governments to \"unite and act swiftly to put a stop to this terrorist activity.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he was appalled by reports that Islamic State militants had demolished a temple in Syria's ancient Palmyra. IS fighters packed explosives in the Baal Shamin temple and blew up the shrine on Sunday, Syria's antiquities chief said. 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