Militants IGIL lead mass confiscation and destruction of books, contrary to the ideology of radical Islamist groups. In the city of Mosul in Northern Iraq was burned about 8 000 books and manuscripts. University Professor in Mosul told the Associated Press that the terrorists "Islamic state" began to destroy the book in December of last year. Was destroyed library of Sunni Muslims, looted the library at the town Museum (confiscated, in particular, the manuscripts of the 5th Millennium BC) and the archives of the Dominican monastery. The Dominican monks fled to Erbil, taking the most valuable manuscripts mosalskogo archive in order to digitize. However, about 50 thousand books were left in Mosul at the mercy sudby@

According to the testimony of local residents, the Islamists said that the seized books promoting atheism and disobedience to Allah, and so they will be burned. Despite opposition from public figures, several public burnings of books had already taken place. At the University of Mosul, for example, the jihadists burned hundreds of books in the presence of studentov@

And although the majority of publications were supposed to be burned, Professor mosalskogo University there is a suspicion that some valuable specimens can get on the black market. Sale of cultural property abroad is one of the important sources of financing IGIL. To stop it, in the middle of February the UN security Council unanimously adopted by Russia a resolution on combating the financing of an "Islamic state" and other terrorist organizations, which provides for the refusal to pay ransom for hostages, from buying the terrorists oil, as well as cultural values. Under this resolution, subject to any artifacts left Syria since March 15, 2011. As for Iraq, a similar ban was passed here earlier: it applies to any artifacts left the territory of this country on August 6, 1990 goda@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

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