It adds to the systematic destruction of heritage and the persecution of minorities that seeks to wipe out the cultural diversity that is the soul of the Iraqi people. According to the UN agency: The books – on topics ranging from philosophy and law to science and poetry – have been “deliberately burned” over the past several weeks in what may be “one of the most devastating acts of destruction of library collections in human history.”
Книги по разным предметам - от философии и права до науки и поэзии — «намеренно сжигались» в течение нескольких последних недель в ходе, возможно, «одного из самых разрушительных актов уничтожения библиотечных коллекций в истории человечества».