Iraq museum pays smugglers representing looted treasures
The lost treasures of IraqSTORY HIGHLIGHTSSelmani museum indoors Kurdistan is paying smugglers to return looted treasureControversial move the same as international museum society dont more often than not good buy back artifactsUNESCO says paying in favor of stolen objects can cheer raiding to take up again Iraqs moment chief museum indoors Sulaimaniya is recovering stolen artifacts by paying smugglers to return the treasures.Located during the semi-autonomous northern region of Kurdistan, the Slemani Museum has taken drastic measures to refill present cabinets following raiding.The attitude of not only UNESCO but the international museum identity is with the intention of we dont purchase back looted objects as it encourages raiding. down-to-earth. filled obstruct, says Stuart Gibson, director of the UNESCO Sulaimaniya Museum Project.The Kurdish establishment took a very recalcitrant and I have got to admit a very courageous view and they believed we are departing to obtain these objects, he added.