| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| T0045.001 | Destruction of Shrines and Necropolises |
| T0045.002 | Burning of Books and Archives |
Aggressors may destroy shrines and necropolises: burn and demolish churches and mosques, raze holy places, turn gravestones into building material. A blow at the places of prayer and memory strikes at the community's very ability to remain itself. This is prohibited by the Hague Regulations (Article 27), the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property and the Rome Statute (Article 8(2)(b)(ix)) - the very charge on which the International Criminal Court delivered its first conviction for the destruction of cultural objects (the Al Mahdi case on Timbuktu, 2016).
The colonizer ravaged the shrines and graves of the deported Chechens. Historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov write: "...on the orders of the party-soviet organs even mosques and cemeteries were plundered... The grave churts (stones) went into the foundations of factories and livestock farms; they were used to pave city streets and edge sidewalks"[1]. The colonizer destroyed the city mosque of Grozny[1].