Al Jazeera World - Shattered Heritage
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2014
- The 1991 & 2003 attacks on Iraq destroyed museums, libraries, theatres and heritage sites.
Al Jazeera World is a weekly series of one-hour documentaries showcasing films from across the Al Jazeera Network. This series includes films shown both on Al Jazeera's Arabic channel as well as its Documentary channel.
thank u so much for such efforts ...please keep it up
Its good that the civilised world doesnt lay claim on conscience!!! They would have a tough time living with themselves.
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Ana Surena Vandenberg dos Santos i'm surprised ur here missy
Interesting film. However very little use was made of Saddam's role in this or the Sunni, Shiite, Kurd conflict etc. I think leaving out such vital aspects of Iraq's history could leave the uneducated viewer somewhat confused as to why events happen as they do.
So, when we'll see U.S. judged for crimes against humanity?!
and what abaut kurds two faced al jazeera
Iraq as a free society declined after 1958. But the Qataris dont want u to know that.
Ur was NOT used as a military base! The iraqi forces had a military base about 1 km away from the Ur site, which the american and polish troops took over 2003, and they erected a security fence around it then to save it from looting and destruction, that most other parts suffered from! It was never used as a military base!
This archeologist is a liar or he is ill-informed.
Simplified, fairytale interpretation of monarchist and Ba'athist Iraq. When you simplify a country's history, are you elevating the people of that country, or just patronising them?
Terribly inaccurate, trivializing and glamourising.
A poor attempt to rewrite the bloody history of Iraq.
Explain how.
I love Al Jazeera but it's shows like this that damage it's credibility as a news organisation. Maybe they should try interview a Kurdish Iraqi and see what they think of the saddam Hussein era
This is more Qatari based propaganda: notice the Kurds are not mentioned and the Saddam era is glorified!
pity party
Extremely biased, once again! "Everything was nice and perfect, and then came the foreigners and destroyed everything." What a xenophobic way of seeing things.
First of all: Much damage was already done by Saddam Husseins rule, his genocidal campaigns, and the iraq-iran war. The intervention of the west against Husseins annexation of Kuwait 1991 was not the downfall of Iraq, it was the downfall of iraqi invasion, but sadly not the downfall of the baathist Hussein regime.
And the 2003 invasion was one big cause of heritage destruction, but not because of immidiate destruction of US airplanes, etc., but because it triggered a huge amount of ethnic strife and civil war after the power vacuum of Hussein was there.
This documentary is incredibly simplifying and xenophobic. It portrays the foreign west as evil and the personal past as greatest, as perfect. And i don't say that to defend anything the west has done, but to say, that this is extremely biased and childish, of "it's all the fault of the foreigners!", of blaming the other instead of also oneself. Like the governments of the region, islamic extremists or Saudi-Arabia. Everything blended out to a simplistic "the foreigners destroyed us" message.
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I'm incredibly saddened by the sheer amount of misinformation, lack of accountability and biased reporting found in the arab world. Living in such a place makes it almost impossible to find accurate news sources, when all are just feeding an inferiority complex of "everything we did was perfect, until the foreigners came and destroyed everything", it's childish and simplistic in a way, that everyone who sees that, is not informed about what really happened.
Worst of all, those who are used as "experts" on this documentary are all panarab baathists, who have either sucked up to dictatorship, were part of it, defend it or start hatred against shiites and all those that are suspected of collaborating with the US by making their sunni arab nationalist stance the "stance of iraq". Almost no mentioning of Saddam Hussein at all, funnily enough, but much about the intervention against his aggression 1991, the sanctions and the invasion. I think that they even took quotations out of context, that meant Saddams regime with "they", while the documentary makes it appear, as US troops were the perpetrators.
Growing up in such an ill-informed environment will ensure, that people point the fingers to the US, Israel and their claimed collaborateurs instead of thinking about what's really the problem. After all, the entire arab media is either state-controlled (dictatorial and untrustworthy), qatari (AlJazeera Arabic and its network, as we see here, is not a source of trustworthiness either) or saudi (al-arabiyah and hundreds of other smaller channels and newspapers, which are pro-saudi of course). There is no influentual liberal or social democratic or in any shape or form trustworthy news source. None. Israeli arab, lebanese or jordanian news sources continue a nice fight against the big competitors, but they are no match for the petrodollar giants.
In such an environment progress is almost impossible...
If the western civilised world is so much into democratising the world and rescuing other nations population, why are they not taking up nations like North Korea, pray??Iraq may not have been perfect before the war(which nation is ???) but how better off is it now? West should stick its nose in its business and leave the other nations to take care of their crap. So yeah they should leave Syria also well alone and stop supplying them with weapons.