Mali’s Great Cultural Treasures Are Being ‘Crushed’ By A Coup And Civil War

At the National Musuem of Mali in Bamako, “there’s no one around, not a visitor in sight. And that, says the museum’s chief researcher, Fatou Toure Sako, is demoralizing. She says television images showing Islamists destroying some of Mali’s most important historical sites breaks her heart and brings tears to her eyes. They include revered, centuries-old Sufi saints’ mausoleums in Timbuktu and the great door of the Sidya Yahya mosque.”