LDP branch led by reconstruction minister Kenya Akiba paid fees to Unification Church The government is also looking limit targets to "military" ones, but this may be loosely defined to include not only enemy bases but also other sites, such as command centers. "I was extremely shocked that the intangible cultural heritage of the Maya community of Belize and humanity as a whole can deliberately be destroyed," Mayan leader Greg Ch'oc said.Japan eyes using enemy base strike capability with U.S. Noh Mul was the centre of a Mayan community of 40,000 people in the third century before the Christian era.Įxperts say there is no way the construction company could not have known they the pyramid was Mayan ruins, and should have been aware of the importance of the site. "They were using this for road fill," he said. Jaime Awe, the director of the Belize Archaeological Institute, has also expressed "incredible disbelief". "This expressed disdain for our laws is incomprehensible."īut she acknowledged that the penalties provided under the law amount to no more than a $10,000 fine, "which could never rectify the damage that has been done". "This total disregard for Belize's cultural heritage and national patrimony is callous, ignorant and unforgivable," she said. Tourism and culture minister Tracy Panton has promised a full investigation into the incident. It was reduced to a small mound of debris at the end of last week.īlame has fallen on the D-Mar construction company, which is owned by local politician Denny Grijalva, who has denied any knowledge of what happened. The archaeological complex, like all pre-Columbian ruins, was under the protection of the state even though it was located in a privately-owned sugar cane plantation. The ancient 30-metre-high pyramid was part of the Noh Mul ceremonial centre, located 80 kilometres north-west of Belize City near the border with Mexico. A 2,300-year-old Mayan temple in northern Belize has been demolished by a construction company wanting to use the rubble as gravel for road repair work.
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