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Mongolia: fire under control, culture heritage destroyed PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
The fire at the MPRP building seems to be extinguished. There is still smoke coming from one of the buildings. The onero art gallery building seems to be luted and damaged. The cultural heritage center is in the same building. The director of the gallery was practically crying in a tv interview in front of broken, empty displays. The worldwide known painting of a horse fiddle player was shown damaged and teased. It might be archive of the MPRP is destroyed, containing the documentation of the 20th century. People are expressing their discust with the sitation. There military on the street stopping cars. Only national tv mnb is broadcasting.
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 1 Written by MNS062808, on 2008-07-02 09:20:43, IP: 207.200.116.131
It is sad that when people feel the need to protest that they resort to stupidity like this. If they only knew that these treasures belonged to the entire Monogolian People and were not things to be looted or destroyed. They are priceless pieces of history that likely can never be recovered. 
That is, in my opinion, a damn shame! 
 
Those who did these things are a disgrace to Mongolia and its people!
 2 Written by froit, on 2008-07-02 18:41:33, IP: 202.179.26.11
stop whining about one painting, DEMOCRACY is at stake here!!
 3 Written by MNS062808, on 2008-07-03 08:31:25, IP: 207.200.116.131
So democracy is about trashing a nation's artifacts or looting them? 
Funny, I thought that to fight for democracy was to carry the fight to the government and show the will of the people.  
Sorry, its not shown by looting and destruction of treasures that cannot be replaced!

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