Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
A team of experts in Timbuktu, Mali examining the damage left in the wake of Islamic terrorist control of the town says early estimates of damage to the city’s history and cultural heritage were grossly underestimated.
The U.N. team said Timbuktu is “completely degraded” that many more of their mausoleums are damaged or destroyed beyond what had been thought before the terrorists were driven out by French and Mali military troops.
The team also found many antique manuscripts were either damaged or completely burned beyond any hope of recovery.
“From the information that we received during the occupation, we thought only nine mausoleums from the World Heritage List were damaged,” Lazare Eloundou Assomo, mission head, told the BBC. “But actually, when we arrived on the site, we had 14 mausoleums damaged. What we also noted is that not only 2,000 to 3,000 manuscripts were lost. The estimation, today, is of 4,203 manuscripts that were completely lost.”
Assomo said Tibuktu is a “symbol of African history” and needs to be protected.
“It is a place where many, many things happened since the 12th Century. A place of knowledge… a place that tells us a lot about how great the African people were and continue to be.”
