2 - Tuesday, February 5, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4, { ( 4c ligoan Daily 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ANDREW WEINER RACHEL GREINETZ Editor in Chiec eusiness Manager 734-41a-4115 eat. 1252 734-418-4115 eat. 1241 anweeiner@msichigandailycom s rmgrein@michigandaily.com UNIVERSITY STUDENTS PROTEST GEOdDE IN DARUt To fight genocide, go without K SKEEPS 50 years ago this week (December 8,1962): After returning from a trip to East Asia, then-University President Harlan Hatcher urged the use of English as the language of international communication, the Daily reported. At a public reception in Hill Auditorium, Hatcher said the first objective of American universities should be keeping English as an international language. He reported the decreasinguse of English in the nations he visited and cited the University's English Language Institute in Thai- land as an important project combating this trend. 25 years ago this week (December 4,1987): Then-Vice President George H. W. Bush visited Oakland and urged Michigan Senate Repub- licans to ratify the intermediate nuclear arms treaty that was to be signed by President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gor- bachev, the Daily reported. At an "Ask George Bush Town Meeting," Bush addressed about 300 people on the elimination of weapons, urging attendees to demon- strate their support. "We're about to get a deal where the Soviets take out all 1,600 (weapons) and we take out our 400, and for the first time in history eliminate a whole class of weapons," he said. 5years ago this week (December 6,2007): A campaign organized by the national anti-genocide student organization STAND encour- aged students to give up one luxury item from their daily lives to help protect displaced Sudanese civilians in Darfur, according to the Daily. Instead of buying her daily latte, LSA senior Alice Mishkin chose to give $3 to victims of the genocide in Darfur. 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Multiple awards may be given - Must be a registered Student Organization *Advertising credit to be used by 4/23/13 People of Timbuktu save manuscripts during violence Islamists set fire to one of world's most precious library of ancient scripts TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) - For eight days after the Islamists set fire to one of the world's most precious collections of ancient manuscripts, the alarm inside the building blared. It was an eerie, repetitive beeping, a cry from the innards of the injured library that echoed around the world. The al-Qaida-linked extrem- ists who ransacked the insti- tute wanted to deal a final blow to Mali, whose northern half they had held for 10 months before retreating in =the face of a French-led military advance. They also wanted to deal a blow to the world, especially France, whose capital houses the head- quarters of UNESCO, the orga- nization which recognized and elevated Timbuktu's monu- ments to its list of World Heri- tage sites. So as they left, they torched the Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, aiming to destroy a heritage of 30,000 manuscripts that date back to the 13th cen- tury. "These manuscripts are our identity," said Abdoulaye Cisse, the library's acting director. "It's through these manuscripts that we have been able to recon- struct our own history, the his- tory of Africa. People think that our history is only oral, not writ- ten. What proves that we had a written history are these docu- ments." The first people who spotted the column of black smoke on Jan.23 were the residents whose homes surround the library, and they ran to tell the center's employees. The bookbinders, manuscript restorers and secu- rity guards who work for the institute broke down and cried. Just about the only person who didn't was.Cisse, the act- ing director, who for months had harbored a secret. Starting last year, he and a handful of associates had conspired to save the documents so crucial to this 1,000-year-old town. In April, when the rebels preaching a radical version of Islam first rolled into this city swirling with sand, the insti- tute was in the process of mov- ing its collection into a new, state-of-the-art building. The fighters commandeered the new center, turning it into a dormi- tory for one of their units of for- eign fighters, Cisse said. They didn't realize only about 2,000 manuscripts had been moved there, the bulk of the collection remaining at the old library, he said. The Islamists came in, as they did in Afghanistan, with their own, severe interpretation of Islam, intent on rooting out what they saw as the venera- tion of idols instead of the pure worship of Allah. During their 10-month-rule, they eviscerated much of the identity of this sto- ried city, starting with the mau- soleums of their saints, which were reduced to rubble. The turbaned fighters made women hide their faces and blotted out their images on bill- boards. They closed hair salons, banned makeup and forbade the music for which Mali is known. Their final act before leaving was to go through the exhibi- tion room in the institute, as well as the whitewashed labora- tory used to restore the age-old parchments. They'grabbed the books they found and burned them. However, they didn't both- er searching the old building, where an elderly man named Abba Alhadi has spent 40 of his 72 years on earth taking care of rare manuscripts. The illiterate old man, who walks with a cane and looks like a character from the Bible, was the perfect foil for the Islamists. They wrongly assumed that the city's Europe- an-educated elite would be the ones trying to save the manu- scripts, he said. So last August, Alhadi began stuffing the thousands of books into empty rice and millet sacks. At night, he loaded the mil- let sacks onto the type of trolley used to cart boxes of vegetables to the market He pushed them across town and piled them into a lorry and onto the backs of motorcycles, which drove them to the banks of the Niger River. From there, they floated down to the central Malian town of Mopti in a pinasse, a narrow, canoe-like boat. Then cars drove them from Mopti, the first government-controlled town, to Mali's capital, Bamako, over 600 miles (1,000 kilome- ters) from here. "I have spent my life protect- ing these manuscripts. This has been my life's work. And I had to come to terms with the fact that I could no longer protect them here," said Alhadi. "It hurt me deeply to see them go, but I took strength knowing that they were being sent to a safe place." It took two weeks in all to spirit out the bulk of the col- lection, around 28,000 texts housed in the old building cov- ering the subjects of theology, astronomy, geography and more. There was nothing they could do, however, for the 2,000 docu- ments that had already been transferred to the new library, to its exhibition and restora- tion rooms, and to a basement vault. Cisse took solace knowing that most of the texts in the new library had been digitized. Even so, when his staff came to tell him about the fire, he felt a constriction in his chest. The new library is housed inside a modern building, whose sheer walls are made to resem- ble the mud-walled homes of Timbuktu. Cisse braved his fear to slip through the back gate on the morning of Jan. 24. The alarm was still scream- ing. The empty manuscript boxes were , strewn on the ground outside in the brick courtyard. .0 t of In IA