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Destruction of Mausoleums & destruction of mosque door -
Somehow, I totally missed this destruction of UNESCO listed items in 2012. Then in 2016 I missed the trial and conviction of the first person tried in the International Criminal Court for the war crime consisting of the destruction of religious buildings and historical monuments.

"As head of a so-called morality brigade during the occupation of Timbuktu by Ansar Dine, a militant Islamist movement associated with al Qaeda’s North African branch, Mr. Al Mahdi and a team of fighters demolished nine mausoleums of Muslim saints and the door of the Sidi Yahia mosque in 2012. All but one of the artifacts were on Unesco’s list of World Heritage sites."

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/islamist-sentenced-to-nine-years-for-timbuktu-shrine-destruction-1474974876

Also: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/22/islamic-extremist-pleads-guilty-at-icc-to-timbuktu-cultural-destruction

When someone posted (elsewhere) "and the huge cultural loss 8 years ago in Timbuktu," I asked myself, what cultural loss? So I turned to Wikipedia and found nothing about it in the "history of Timbuktu." There probably should be something about it here, and also somewhere in UNESCO amd/or the International Criminal Court, a link to an article here about it. There should probably be a link somewhere about what Constitutes a war crime and remedies for the destruction of art & architecture. I didn't check those sites before, so I will do that, and I find something I will post an update. Ileanadu (talk) 15:39, 16 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I did find something when I searched for Al Faqi, but not under "Al Mahdi." The convicted man's name is Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi. There was also nothing in the Mali article about this. So, all that's needed here is a sentence or two about the incident and a link to Ahmad_al-Faqi_al-Mahdi


 * That might be something I could do, but I don't know anything about the accuracy of that article. Ileanadu (talk) 16:04, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

The decline of timbuktu
Mali was a great center of trade and learning the great empirer of mali nansi Musa who died in 1335 century made mali his capital city but who the 'Europeans' made everything theirs when mansa musa died and left the city on his sons hands and the total population of mali today is 30% it's a pity because when they came to Africa in the 18-19th century everything belonged to them to we are shot with guns because of legal challenges that Europeans bought to Africa 41.246.31.109 (talk) 16:43, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

History
Timbuktu was a model city that showed development in songhai essay 165.165.96.33 (talk) 11:09, 5 February 2023 (UTC)