Now the exhibition What Remains is to examine culturecide as part of a Culture Under Attack series at the Imperial War Museum in London. Photograph: Imperial War MuseumThrough first world war army education posters and prints, second world war photographs and footage, and artefacts and images from more recent conflicts, the exhibition charts the powerful propaganda around cultural property destruction, and asks what motivates such desecration. Playing cards issued to soldiers, with images to alert and educate them, are among measures adopted by the UK and Nato to reduce cultural destruction. By tackling looting and trafficking of artefacts, the British army aims to reduce “threat finance”, the risk of artefacts funding enemy weaponry. “It is recognised that atrocities to civilians and cultural property destruction often dovetails,” said Dunkley.

Source: The Guardian June 23, 2019 11:02 UTC