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Cultural Cleansing in Iraq - Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered (Paperback)
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Cultural Cleansing in Iraq - Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered (Paperback)
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Why did the invasion of Iraq result in cultural destruction and
killings of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and
poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue
instead that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to
remake it as a client regime. Post-invasion chaos created
conditions under which the cultural foundations of the state could
be undermined. The authors painstakingly document the consequences
of the occupiers' willful inaction and worse, which led to the
ravaging of one of the world's oldest recorded cultures. Targeted
assassination of over 400 academics, kidnapping and the forced
flight of thousands of doctors, lawyers, artists and other
intellectuals add up to cultural cleansing. This important work
lays to rest claims that the invasion aimed to free an educated
population to develop its own culture of democracy.
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