World War One cemeteries in Belgium and France, the hills of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and a former torture center in Argentina have been declared UNESCO World Heritage sites as the UN agency ends a moratorium on memorial sites for human suffering.
Crosses mark the graves of soldiers buried amongst hundreds in one of the WW1 military cemeteries in the village of Rossignol, southern Belgium, August 13, 2014.Crosses mark the graves of soldiers buried amongst hundreds in one of the WW1 military cemeteries in the village of Rossignol, southern Belgium, August 13, 2014.
At a meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, UNESCO member states agreed to add the World War One and Rwanda sites to the list, after adding the Argentina torture memorial on Tuesday. The agency said member states agreed in early 2023 that these sites can play a key role in peace-building, which is UNESCO’s primary purpose, and that the committee would consider the nominations of the three sites.
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