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David Pettigrew, PhD,
Philosophy Department,
Southern Connecticut State University

email: pettigrewd1@southernct.edu

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Selected Cultural and Religious Sites

(I would like to thank Omer Sulejmanovic for all his help as a friend and cultural guide in the preparation of the slide presentation "Mostar: Historic, Cultural and Religious Sites". The presentation would not have been possible without his generous assistance.)

For further research see:

For further related reading see The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, 1954

http://www.icomos.org/hague/

Also see: Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol 1), Adopted on 8 June 1977 by the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of
International Humanitarian Law applicable in Armed Conflicts

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/93.htm

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The 30m-long, 20m-high, single-span Mostar bridge known as 'Stari Most' (Old Bridge) was built by Ottoman Turk Architect Mimar Hajrudin in 1566 of 456 blocks of stone. It was blown up by Bosnian-Croat forces in November 1993. Old Mostar Bridge was an UNESCO world heritage site, including eleven other historical buildings constructed in Ottoman Turkish era.
http://www.nato.int/sfor/indexinf/articles/030507a/t030507a.htm

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Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol 1)
Adopted on 8 June 1977 by the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of 
International Humanitarian Law applicable in Armed Conflicts

CIVILIAN POPULATION
SECTION I.-GENERAL PROTECTION AGAINST EFFECTS OF HOSTILITIES

CHAPTER III.-CIVILIAN OBJECTS
Article 53.-Protection of cultural objects and of places of worship
Without prejudice to the provisions of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 14 May 1954, and of other relevant international instruments, it is prohibited:

  1. To commit any acts of hostility directed against the historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples;

(b) To use such objects in support of the military effort;
(c) To make such objects the object of reprisals.

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/93.htm