MetaFilter posts tagged with looting

CPI (M): is for Murder

hadjiboy — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:14:10 -0800

The battle over Nandigram continues (after the massacres of March 14), as a fresh spate of atrocities have been reported.

No word on chopped off ring fingers, either

hackly_fracture — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:43:48 -0800

Rape rumors false? No word on turnstyle jumping or wearing of heavy coats . . . (via)

Flood myths

destro — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 10:57:33 -0800

From a New York journalist's description of the days after the flood:

I saw persons take watches from dead men's jackets and brutally tore finger-rings from the hands of women. The ruffians also climbed into the overturned houses and ransacked the rooms, taking whatever they thought valuable.

Sound familiar? This report about the Johnstown Flood was also filled with stories of "minority savegery", drunken Hungarians at the time that eventually turned out to be completely untrue or wildly exaggerated, such as the rescue helicoptor being shot at. also see previous mefi thread on LA looting here

Photographers respond to New Orleans racial bias photos

Brian James — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:42:24 -0800

Looting vs Finding Chris Graythen, an AFP photographer in New Orleans (skip down to his post) who shot the photo of two white people "finding" goods in the floodwaters, defends his caption. "These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water." Meanwhile, the editor for the photog of the "looting" image says that he actually saw the looting occur. "'He saw the person go into the shop and take the goods,' Stokes said, 'and that's why he wrote 'looting' in the caption.'"

Liberating the Loaves of Bread

bairey — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:37:59 -0800

Black people loot, white people borrow. Racist photo captions by Yahoo News/AP illuminate more than Katrina's aftermath. If these pictures are taken down, there are mirrors right here.

You reported on stolen Expressionist lifting drink! You get nothing!

scody — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:34:31 -0800

Respected arts reporter David D'Arcy has been dumped by NPR apparently in response to complaints by MoMA, who were unhappy with his recent coverage of the controversy surrounding Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally. (D'Arcy's previous report here.) The portrait was stolen by the Nazis in 1939; since 1997 it has been on loan to MoMA from the Leopold Collection. The concerns and controversy surrounding the Nazis' looting of art, of course, continue to be thorny issues.

Looting Asia's antiquities

homunculus — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:41:08 -0800

The trade in stolen Asian relics is booming. TIME reports on how cultural sites are being looted and precious artifacts smuggled overseas. Sometimes they're returned, but much of Asia's cultural heritage is being lost.

Iraq Museum looting

Durwood — Mon, 05 May 2003 19:17:46 -0800

Oh never mind.... The vast majority of antiquities feared stolen or broken have been found inside the National Museum in Baghdad, according to American investigators who compiled an inventory over the weekend of the ransacked galleries. A total of 38 pieces, not tens of thousands, are now believed to be missing, according the Chicago Tribune. Can this be true? Registration required.

Three Kings

mapalm — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:34:50 -0800

"Three Kings" almost becomes "Four Kings"
Once again, life imitates art.

Mosul burns

delmoi — Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:04:51 -0800

"This isn't freedom, this is bullshit"

To Loot Or Not To Loot - That Is Not Our Question

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:13:44 -0800

Let The Iraqi Looters Loot: there's pleasure and there's payback in looting! [A little more inside]

Policeman to the World?

Dunvegan — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:59:21 -0800

Policeman to the World?
Andrew Buncombe in Nasiriyah reports on this "liberated" city "where looters run wild and death stalks the streets."

"While much of the Iraqi army and Fedayeen militia may have been destroyed or forced underground, the city has been given over to lawlessness and looting. Yesterday, the Saddam Hospital itself was pillaged by a gang of 20 armed looters, who made off with a haul of drugs. They even looted several of the hospital's ambulances. What is clear is that Nasiriyah is neither safe nor secure. If this is an example of how the war will unfold in other cities throughout Iraq, it does not bode well.

lagado — Sat, 30 Dec 2000 21:49:36 -0800

Archaeologists wonder where Afghanistan's antiquities have wound up, if they still exist. There is not much left to see inside Kabul Museum these days. Once a priceless repository of ancient Buddhist, Persian and Greek artifacts, during the civil war the museum changed hands several times and in the process was looted of nearly everything in the collection. Not only did Afghanistan's war claim 1.5 million lives, it also swallowed up the country's history.