Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed

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1. Story
2. During the armed-group occupation of northern Mali, mausoleums of the saints in Timbuktu were attacked with picks, hoes and chisels over roughly a fortnight from 30 June 2012, and destruction continued through the year until fourteen of the sixteen inscribed mausoleums had been demolished, along with the sealed door of the Sidi Yahia mosque. The property was placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger the same year. Reconstruction in traditional earthen technique, carried out by local masons with UNESCO support, began in 2014.
3. Knowledge
4. List of World Heritage in Danger
5. Timbuktu
6. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
7. Connections
8. Timbuktu
9. List of World Heritage in Danger
10. List of World Heritage in Danger
11. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
12. ICC convicts Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi for the destruction of Timbuktu's mausoleums
13. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
14. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
15. Venice and its Lagoon
16. Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
17. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
18. Timbuktu
19. Site of Palmyra
20. Galápagos Islands
21. Angkor
22. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
23. Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
24. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
25. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
26. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
27. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
28. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
29. The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
30. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
31. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
32. Evidence
33. Fourteen of the sixteen mausoleums of saints inscribed as part of the Timbuktu World Heritage property were destroyed during 2012; the property was placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2012; reconstruction in traditional earthen technique with local communities began in 2014.
34. On 27 September 2016 Trial Chamber VIII found Al Mahdi guilty as a co-perpetrator of the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against historic monuments and buildings dedicated to religion — nine mausoleums and one mosque in Timbuktu, attacked between around 30 June and 11 July 2012 — and sentenced him to nine years' imprisonment; the sentence was reduced by two years on 25 November 2021. It was the first ICC case centred on the destruction of cultural heritage.