Foreign investors are spies and saboteurs, who must be prevented from pillaging what they buy.
This is why we are working with the national authorities, with the World Customs Organization and Interpol, and the International Council of Museums, as well as auction houses, to protect humanity's cultural heritage and prevent its pillaging.
The 2003 Iraq war exposed serious shortcomings in the international legal framework built over the last century to prevent the pillaging, looting and destruction of cultural property in times of war.
The battle did not have a notable influence on the war and did not prevent further pillage.
The Jewish residents of Ferrara paid 30,000 ducats to prevent the pillage of the city by Klenau's forces; this was used to pay the wages of Gardani's troops.
The Egyptian people -- half of whom live on less than $2 a day -- seem determined to prevent the pillage and not to wait until September to drive out a dictator dripping in blood and bad hair dye.
"It prevents the pillaging, which is happening on a very large scale, it prevents the commercial exploitation, the scrap metal recovery, and it will have regulations on the incidental impacts, such as the problem of trawlers going over World War One sites". The naval losses suffered by the belligerents during the Great War pale in comparison with the suffering in the trenches.
He depicts an officer of the Chinese Nationalist Army — bitter enemies of the Communists — as a self-sacrificing patriot and, in a scene he said was inspired by Roman Polanski's "Pianist," shows the human, cultured side of a Japanese officer who prevents his troops from pillaging the church and then listens appreciatively as the convent girls sing.
As president, Obote solicited foreign aid in an attempt to raise Uganda's economy from the ruin of the Amin years, but he did nothing to prevent Acholi and Lango soldiers from conducting a campaign of murder and pillage in the south and in Amin's home district.
Etal surrendered quickly in the hope of avoiding being pillaged by James' army, but nonetheless it was at least partially slighted - deliberately damaged to prevent it being used as a defence.
