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Mali Islamist jailed for nine years for Timbuktu shrine attacks

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi admitted to leading rebel forces who destroyed historic mausoleums at the world heritage site in Mali in 2012. 

Judges at the court in The Hague found he had shown "remorse and empathy" for the crime.

It is the first sentence based on cultural destruction as a war crime.

Read entire article at BBC