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23 UCLA J. Int'l L. Foreign Aff. 159 (2019)
The Prosecutor v. Al Mahdi and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Property Crime or Crime against Humanity

handle is hein.journals/jilfa23 and id is 163 raw text is: THE PROSECUTOR V. AL MAHDI AND THE DESTRUCTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE: PROPERTY CRIME OR CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY? Alice Curci* ABSTRACT On September 27, 2016 the International Criminal Court sentenced Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi to nine years in prison for intentionally directing attacks against ten buildings of a religious and historical character in Timbuktu, Mali, setting a milestone precedent in the prosecution of crimes against cultural heritage. While in the past other international tribunals had addressed the destruction of cultural property in conflict, the Al Mahdi case marked the first international prosecutionfor destruction ofcultural property as an independent charge rather than as an ancillary charge to more serious crimes against persons. This Comment analyzes the Al Mahdi opinion and the Prosecutor's decision to move forward with the indictment, how the case fits within the broader framework of international criminal and cultural heritage law, and what its precedential impact might be moving forward. This Comment also addresses the policy implications of the Al * J.D. 2019, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law; M.A. 2014, Middle East and Mediterranean Studies, King's College, London; B.A. 2012, Arabic and International Relations, UniversitA Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. I would like to thank the staff of the UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs for their thoughtful feedback, and Professor Leila Sadat, whose seminar on War Crimes and Tribunals provided the springboard for this Comment.

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