Sack of Dur-Kurigalzu

The Sack of Dur-Kurigalzu was the most notable infraction on the Knossos Conventions during the Great Powers' War. It took place shortly after the start of the war and the Mesopotamian campaign, after Assyria invade Karduniash from the north.
Following a battle near the city, which was a decisive Assyrian victory, the city was put under siege. It was taken shortly after, however, instead of putting it under their occupation, the Assyrians chose to destroy it, following orders of Tiglath-Pileser. All the combatants and men of fighting age were executed by the Assyrian army, including the governor of the region Ulamburiash, while the women, many of whom had been raped, were taken into slavery along with children, all of them being sent north to Assyria. The city itself, after being ransacked thoroughly, was completely destroyed. 
Being the most prominent site of Kassite culture, as the city was founded by them, it attracted a lot of anger from the Assyrians and so Tiglath decided to completely destroy it, both to frighten the rest of Karduniash into submission and to erase as much Kassite culture and language as possible so as to have an easier time managing the occupied territories later on. 
== War crime tribunal ==
Spoiler warning: this section contains spoilers for the novel The March of Deshret.
While this event received some international attention, in the immediate years not much was done about it. Only in 76 AEE did it come to the public attention again, as it was mentioned many times during the Damascus Peace Conference as an example of Assyrian war crimes. In 76-77 AEE some individuals - prominent officers and soldiers participating in the sack - were tried for their war crimes both in the Kingdom of Assyria and the OFK Mandate of Amurru. While the OFK gave more lenient sentences and only sentenced the guilty culprits to years of hard labor, on the EC side most defendants received the death penalty. Still, the most prominent generals and Tiglath himself had already been killed by that point and could not stand trial. General Shu-Kutum also did not stand trial, despite being somewhat involved in the event, as he was pardoned directly by the pharaoh Ramesses XI.
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