article_snippet.sent: The UN's cultural agency condemned the act on Monday. '
article_snippet.sent: I condemn this mad, destructive act that accentuates the horror of the situation,' UNESCO head Irina Bokova said in a statement.
article_snippet.sent: With their hammers and explosives their are also obliterating the site, clearly determined to wipe out all traces of the history of Iraq's people,' UNESCO head Irina Bokova said.
highlights_snippet.sent: This meant that they must be destroyed, the terrorist organisation argued .