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이슬람국가(IS)가 유네스코 세계문화유산으로 지정된 팔미라 유적지에서 2천 년 된 고대 신전을 무참히 폭파했다.
마문 압둘카림 시리아 문화재청장은 AFP통신에 IS가 23일(현지시간) 팔미라의 바알 샤민 신전에 다량의 폭약을 설치해 터뜨렸다고 밝혔다.
그는 "신전 내부가 파괴되는 등 전체적으로 상당히 훼손됐고 주변 기둥들도 무너졌다"면서 "암울한 예상이 불행하게도 실현되고 있다"고 말했다.
인권단체 시리아인권관측소(SOHR)도 바알 샤민 신전이 파괴됐다고 전했다.
바알 샤민 신전은 2천 년 전인 기원후 17년 페니키아의 폭풍과 강우의 신을 위해 세워진 것으로 로마의 하드리아누스 황제 통치 시절인 130년에 규모를 키웠다.
IS는 최근 팔미라 유적 연구에 평생을 헌신해온 시리아 노학자 칼리드 아사드(82)를 참수하고 시신을 유적지 기둥에 매달았다.
IS는 그것도 모자라 시신을 토막내 훼손했다고 아사드의 아들 모하마드가 말했다.
모하마드는 "팔미라 주민에게서 IS가 아버지의 시신을 훼손했다는 얘기를 들었다"면서 "아버지는 언제나 '팔미라의 종려나무처럼 꼿꼿하게 서서 죽을 것이다'라고 말씀하시곤 했다"고 전했다.
모하마드는 극단주의자들의 위협에도 아버지가 팔미라를 떠나 피신하기를 거부했다고 덧붙였다.
아사드는 처형 전 팔미라 유적들이 옮겨진 곳을 대라는 IS의 심문에 끝까지 입을 열지 않은 것으로 전해졌다.
지난 5월 팔미라를 장악한 IS는 지난 6월 2천 년 된 사자상을 부수는 등 팔미라 고대유적지를 잇따라 훼손, '문화청소'를 하고 있다는 비난을 받고 있다.
오아시스 도시인 팔미라는 귀중한 고대유적을 품고 있어 '사막의 신부'라는 별칭으로 불리며 세계적 문화유산이자 시리아의 대표 유적지로 널리 알려진 곳이다. (연합)
마문 압둘카림 시리아 문화재청장은 AFP통신에 IS가 23일(현지시간) 팔미라의 바알 샤민 신전에 다량의 폭약을 설치해 터뜨렸다고 밝혔다.
그는 "신전 내부가 파괴되는 등 전체적으로 상당히 훼손됐고 주변 기둥들도 무너졌다"면서 "암울한 예상이 불행하게도 실현되고 있다"고 말했다.
인권단체 시리아인권관측소(SOHR)도 바알 샤민 신전이 파괴됐다고 전했다.
바알 샤민 신전은 2천 년 전인 기원후 17년 페니키아의 폭풍과 강우의 신을 위해 세워진 것으로 로마의 하드리아누스 황제 통치 시절인 130년에 규모를 키웠다.
IS는 최근 팔미라 유적 연구에 평생을 헌신해온 시리아 노학자 칼리드 아사드(82)를 참수하고 시신을 유적지 기둥에 매달았다.
IS는 그것도 모자라 시신을 토막내 훼손했다고 아사드의 아들 모하마드가 말했다.
모하마드는 "팔미라 주민에게서 IS가 아버지의 시신을 훼손했다는 얘기를 들었다"면서 "아버지는 언제나 '팔미라의 종려나무처럼 꼿꼿하게 서서 죽을 것이다'라고 말씀하시곤 했다"고 전했다.
모하마드는 극단주의자들의 위협에도 아버지가 팔미라를 떠나 피신하기를 거부했다고 덧붙였다.
아사드는 처형 전 팔미라 유적들이 옮겨진 곳을 대라는 IS의 심문에 끝까지 입을 열지 않은 것으로 전해졌다.
지난 5월 팔미라를 장악한 IS는 지난 6월 2천 년 된 사자상을 부수는 등 팔미라 고대유적지를 잇따라 훼손, '문화청소'를 하고 있다는 비난을 받고 있다.
오아시스 도시인 팔미라는 귀중한 고대유적을 품고 있어 '사막의 신부'라는 별칭으로 불리며 세계적 문화유산이자 시리아의 대표 유적지로 널리 알려진 곳이다. (연합)
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Islamic State militants have destroyed a temple at Syria’s ancient ruins of Palmyra, activists said Sunday, realizing the worst fears archaeologists had for the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city after the extremists seized it and beheaded a local scholar.
Palmyra, one of the Middle East’s most spectacular archaeological sites and a UNESCO World Heritage site, sits near the modern Syrian city of the same name. Activists said the militants used explosives to blow up the Baalshamin Temple on its grounds, the blast so powerful it also damaged some of the Roman columns around it.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday night that the temple was blown up a month ago. Turkey-based activist Osama al-Khatib, who is originally from Palmyra, said the temple was blown up Sunday. Both said the extremists used a large amount of explosives to destroy it.
Both activists relied on information for those still in Palmyra and the discrepancy in their accounts could not be immediately reconciled, though such contradictory information is common in Syria’s long civil war.
The fate of the nearby Temple of Bel, dedicated to the Semitic god Bel, was not immediately known. Islamic State group supporters on social media also did not immediately mention the temple’s destruction.
The Sunni extremists, who have imposed a violent interpretation of Islamic law across their self-declared “caliphate” in territory they control in Syria and Iraq, claim ancient relics promote idolatry and say they are destroying them as part of their purge of paganism. However, they are also believed to sell off looted antiquities, bringing in significant sums of cash.
Al-Khatib said the Baalshamin Temple is about 500 meters (550 yards) from the Palmyra’s famous amphitheater where the group killed more than 20 Syrian soldiers after they captured the historic town in May.
The temple dates to the first century and is dedicated to the Phoenician god of storms and fertilizing rains.
The head of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, said Friday that Islamic State extremists in Syria and Iraq are engaged in the “most brutal, systematic” destruction of ancient sites since World War II _ a stark warning that came hours after militants demolished the St. Elian Monastery, which housed a fifth-century tomb and served as a major pilgrimage site. The monastery was in the town of Qaryatain in central Syria.
News of the temples destruction comes after relatives and witnesses said Wednesday that Khaled al-Asaad, an 81-year-old antiquities scholar who devoted his life to understanding Palmyra, was beheaded by Islamic State militants, his bloodied body hung on a pole. He even had named his daughter after Zenobia, the queen that ruled from the city 1,700 years ago.
Meanwhile in Iraq, at least 23 soldiers and government-allied militiamen were killed Sunday in an attack by Islamic State militants in the turbulent Anbar province west of Baghdad, Iraqi military and police officials said, in the second heavy death toll suffered by the Iraqi military and its allies in recent days in the vast Sunni region.
The officials said Sunday’s attack, which killed 17 soldiers and six Sunni militia fighters, took place in the rural district of Jaramshah, north of Anbar’s provincial capital, Ramadi.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
They said the Islamic State fighters used suicide bombings and mortar shells and that chief of army operations in Anbar, Maj-Gen. Qassim al-Dulaimi, was lightly wounded in the attack.
News of Sunday’s attack came two days after up to 50 soldiers were killed by the Islamic State group in two ambushes elsewhere in Anbar province, much of which is under militant control, including Ramadi and the key city of Fallujah.
Government forces and allied Sunni and Shiite militiamen have been battling the Islamic State militants in Anbar for months, but, hampered by suicide bombings and booby-trapped buildings, they have only made modest gains. (AP)
Islamic State militants have destroyed a temple at Syria’s ancient ruins of Palmyra, activists said Sunday, realizing the worst fears archaeologists had for the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city after the extremists seized it and beheaded a local scholar.
Palmyra, one of the Middle East’s most spectacular archaeological sites and a UNESCO World Heritage site, sits near the modern Syrian city of the same name. Activists said the militants used explosives to blow up the Baalshamin Temple on its grounds, the blast so powerful it also damaged some of the Roman columns around it.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday night that the temple was blown up a month ago. Turkey-based activist Osama al-Khatib, who is originally from Palmyra, said the temple was blown up Sunday. Both said the extremists used a large amount of explosives to destroy it.
Both activists relied on information for those still in Palmyra and the discrepancy in their accounts could not be immediately reconciled, though such contradictory information is common in Syria’s long civil war.
The fate of the nearby Temple of Bel, dedicated to the Semitic god Bel, was not immediately known. Islamic State group supporters on social media also did not immediately mention the temple’s destruction.
The Sunni extremists, who have imposed a violent interpretation of Islamic law across their self-declared “caliphate” in territory they control in Syria and Iraq, claim ancient relics promote idolatry and say they are destroying them as part of their purge of paganism. However, they are also believed to sell off looted antiquities, bringing in significant sums of cash.
Al-Khatib said the Baalshamin Temple is about 500 meters (550 yards) from the Palmyra’s famous amphitheater where the group killed more than 20 Syrian soldiers after they captured the historic town in May.
The temple dates to the first century and is dedicated to the Phoenician god of storms and fertilizing rains.
The head of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, said Friday that Islamic State extremists in Syria and Iraq are engaged in the “most brutal, systematic” destruction of ancient sites since World War II _ a stark warning that came hours after militants demolished the St. Elian Monastery, which housed a fifth-century tomb and served as a major pilgrimage site. The monastery was in the town of Qaryatain in central Syria.
News of the temples destruction comes after relatives and witnesses said Wednesday that Khaled al-Asaad, an 81-year-old antiquities scholar who devoted his life to understanding Palmyra, was beheaded by Islamic State militants, his bloodied body hung on a pole. He even had named his daughter after Zenobia, the queen that ruled from the city 1,700 years ago.
Meanwhile in Iraq, at least 23 soldiers and government-allied militiamen were killed Sunday in an attack by Islamic State militants in the turbulent Anbar province west of Baghdad, Iraqi military and police officials said, in the second heavy death toll suffered by the Iraqi military and its allies in recent days in the vast Sunni region.
The officials said Sunday’s attack, which killed 17 soldiers and six Sunni militia fighters, took place in the rural district of Jaramshah, north of Anbar’s provincial capital, Ramadi.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
They said the Islamic State fighters used suicide bombings and mortar shells and that chief of army operations in Anbar, Maj-Gen. Qassim al-Dulaimi, was lightly wounded in the attack.
News of Sunday’s attack came two days after up to 50 soldiers were killed by the Islamic State group in two ambushes elsewhere in Anbar province, much of which is under militant control, including Ramadi and the key city of Fallujah.
Government forces and allied Sunni and Shiite militiamen have been battling the Islamic State militants in Anbar for months, but, hampered by suicide bombings and booby-trapped buildings, they have only made modest gains. (AP)
