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Well, in Egypt, the rioters looted the headquarters of the Egyptian secret police in April 2011, and when they were looting the building, they found lots of papers.
Albums like De La Soul's "3 Feet High and Rising" and the Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique" looted from decades of recorded music to create these sonic, layered masterpieces that were basically the Sgt.
They had looted everything.
When a site is looted, it's as if a puzzle already missing 90 percent of it pieces has had the rest obscured beyond recognition.
When we first visited the site, we could see the tombs of many high-ranking officials that had been looted.
What I realized is that everything I had assumed about looted sites had been proven wrong.
She was a soapstone bird that was looted from Great Zimbabwe in the late 1800s, and is still currently housed in Cecil John Rhodes's estate in Cape Town.
[A film by Sethembile Msezane] (Video) (A capella singing) [FALLING] (Applause) In the film, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Germany share a common story about the soapstone birds that were looted from Great Zimbabwe.
On their way, they looted everything.
And when they came, they looted everything.
I stayed after they looted everything.
They've been looted inside and out.
At the time, none of us understood that "Kristallnacht" - the "Night of Broken Glass" where the fronts of Jewish-owned shops were smashed, and the shops looted, and homes and synagogues were set on fire - was only the beginning of the nightmare of much, much worse to come.
As I do not want to watch and be part of a film glorifying and celebrating any Mughal ruler who looted, mass murdered, and converted by force (to Islam) hundreds and thousands of innocent Hindustani (Indian) people.
After finding the coffin looted by thieves, they accept lodging in the household of Albrecht (Jason Robards Sr.,) father of Jason Robards Jr. an antique collector.
The UPA regime has effectively looted the country, and rampant corruption and a lack of accountability have decimated its leading party’s credibility.
When Baghdad fell, the oil ministry was quickly protected, while museums and hospitals were allowed to be looted.
But, too often in Africa’s history, money that should have financed productive investment has been looted or squandered.
The Arab media would still be heaping uncritical praise on the region’s presidents and their families, while development programs would be looted by them.
They have looted public-sector resources through large-scale privatization schemes, and by securing public subsidies that rarely require them to deliver benefits to taxpayers.
Similarly, European and American banks keep the resources that are looted from Africa.
Peru’s reclamation of its cultural heritage made me wish the same for Africa’s looted artifacts.
Their libraries have been looted or burned.
This is desirable for many reasons, including the fact that those who destroy cultural sites, and enslave and kill innocent men, women, and children, acquire the resources they need in part from the sale of looted treasures.
It is these women’s voices that deserve support – not that of a scary stalking-horse for eight more years (or more) of rule by the thugs who looted America’s treasury, wrecked its economy, and sent 4,000 brave young men and women to die in a war based on lies.
Jonathan is now widely viewed as weak and indecisive, while the PDP’s conservative faction in the north is understood to be part of the “cabal” that has misgoverned the country and looted its treasury since independence in 1960.
The World Bank Group, together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, is working on the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) initiative to go after corrupt gains and help spur action to return looted assets to their legitimate owners: the people in the affected developing country.
These issues of tax havens, looted funds, bribery, and corruption are at the nexus of the urgent need to foster openness and transparency in financial transactions, and to ensure accountability at the global level.
Italian prosecutors seem zealous to make those who looted Parmalat pay a similar price.
Inter-urban competition and the militias’ defiant independence are all the more worrisome because Libya is awash in weapons, with unguarded caches, abandoned stockpiles, looted ammunition depots, and thousands of shoulder-fired heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles.