CULTURAL GENOCIDE AND CULTURAL CLEANSING:CASE OF KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
" Culture and heritage are not about stones and buildings, they are about identities and belongings . They carry values from the past that are important for the societies today and tomorrow. We must safeguard the heritage because it is what brings us together as a community; it is what binds us within a shared destiny" Irina Bokova (1) The two images above are graphic representations of the problem I want to highlight in this post. The image below is the image of Baqee cemetery as it was before it was vandalized by the Wahabi, Saudi regimen. The image above is it's current status not only demolished but chained and guarded. This is classical example of " CULTURAL GENOCIDE" which continues till today unabated. WHAT IS CUTURAL GENOCIDE: Genocide is generally understood as destruction with the intent to destroy a racial, religious, ethnic or national group. This definition emphasizes the physical elimination of the group which is the target