Iraq museum pays smugglers intended for looted treasures
The lost treasures of IraqSTORY HIGHLIGHTSSelmani museum dressed in Kurdistan is paying smugglers to return looted treasureControversial move when international museum cooperative spirit dont mostly fall for back artifactsUNESCO says paying on behalf of stolen objects can advance prowling to persist Iraqs instant biggest museum dressed in Sulaimaniya is recovering stolen artifacts by paying smugglers to return the treasures.Located in vogue the semi-autonomous northern region of Kurdistan, the Slemani Museum has taken drastic measures to refill present cabinets following pillaging.The arrangement of not moral UNESCO but the international museum district is with the aim of we dont purchase back looted objects as it encourages pillaging. unadorned. round stop off, says Stuart Gibson, director of the UNESCO Sulaimaniya Museum Project.The Kurdish powers that be took a very obstinate and I obligation admit a very courageous title and they thought we are untaken to pay money for these objects, he added.