In Mali, ICC Prosecutor Savours Ruling To Punish Timbuktu Destruction By Amaury HAUCHARD
04/01/21 AT 11:58 AM
Wearing a green head-dress matching her African robes, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, visited Timbuktu on a mission to turn the page on a chapter of cultural desecration.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Sahara trading post flourished as a centre of Islamic culture in Western cultures, it was often a name shrouded in mysticism and remoteness.
In 2012, Timbuktu hit the headlines for quite different reasons. Jihadist group Ansar Eddine took pickaxes to 14 of Timbuktu s famous mausoleums of Muslim saints Photo: AFP / STR
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