Thank you for the comments, Kris.

There is a spelling mistake – it should read “razed” and not “raised”. We are only human here at LiN so mistakes happen. The phrase “razed to the ground” is commonly used in English. In fact, I heard it only last week on a BBC documentary about the wars of the years gone by. In the episode, there was a scene showing an aggressor attacking a civilian who was merely trying to earn a living as a shopkeeper. I thought the violence was totally unwarranted so I switched off at this point.