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States no longer need bonfires to silence culture. Rights groups documented hundreds of internet shutdowns in recent years — digital censorship is heritage erasure at the speed of a kill switch.
A decade after the ICC's first cultural-destruction conviction, the Timbuktu verdict still shapes how courts treat attacks on heritage — and what archives like this one must keep on record.
How a 1952 police firing on students demanding the Bengali language became International Mother Language Day — and why language rights remain a frontline of cultural suppression today.