‘A huge crime’: Archive of Lebanon's news agency since 1961 is 'stolen'
The archive belonging to the National News Agency contained photographs of Lebanon’s civil war.
A Lebanese government archive was reported stolen on Monday, including trove of data and information from the civil war era in the country.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency said its archive server was stolen along with five computers from the archive room. Ministry of Information staff discovered the theft on Monday morning. The server included “pictures of all occasions since 1961.” Information Minister Ziad Makary referred to the theft as “a huge crime,” according to the agency.
Makary later said that what was stolen constitutes a “small part” of the archive and that the stolen contents are saved by the ministry, the National News Agency reported.
Lebanon’s national archives are located in a building that houses two ministries. It is across the street from the Lebanese central bank in Beirut, the Associated Press reported.
