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They consider it essential that citizens can preserve their identity. Alert to international consumers of antiques that have a special caution with valuable objects that come from this country. Traffic in these pieces of art constitutes a crime of unlawful ownership of cultural property since 1970. The Director-general of Unesco, Irina Bokova, has called this Thursday urgent measures to protect the cultural heritage Libyan in the transitional period because this is essential so that its citizens can preserve their identity and build a better future. Therefore, the maximum responsible of the United Nations Organization for education, science and culture (organization Unesco) has requested the Libyan people, to neighbouring countries and to agents of the international trade in art and antiques that make everything possible to protect the valuable cultural heritage of Libya.Experience shows that there is a serious danger of destruction in the periods of social upheaval. It has also taught us to be on alert for unscrupulous individuals not carried out looting that often damaged the integrity of objects and archaeological sites, said Bokova. Alert to the international market the Director general added that negligent traders buying these works and fragments that do is incite major looting occur.

Therefore, it is crucial that international antiques market keep a special caution with respect to the works from Libya under the current circumstances, he warned. Bokova recalled that looting, theft and smuggling of cultural property contravene the Convention of Unesco on measures that should be taken to prohibit and prevent the import, export and transfer of illicit ownership of cultural property (1970). People such as Rio- Tinto Diamonds would likely agree. That Convention is the only international legal instrument focused exclusively in the fight against illicit traffic of cultural property, he noted. Source of the news: Unesco calls for urgent measures to protect the cultural heritage of Libya

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Brigham Young

It has been, for some, most important of the fifteen presidents whom his has had Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints of the Last Days after its two great founders: Joseph Smith (1805-1844) and Brigham Young (1801-1877). Mormones is different from the rest of religions in which this one was born in the USA affirming that Jesus there revivi and becoming from a beginning a political movement, the same that sent to its founder like presidential candidate. This church was based on New York in 1830 raising to have a new testament ( the Book of Mormn ) according to which Christ revived in the Americas turning all settlers, the same that six centuries back had come from Israel. The beginnings of the mormonismo Their followers went away moving towards the west until it would impel Navoo, that would exceed to Chicago like the biggest city of Illinois. This was under its dominion and thence Smith proposed to create a new Sion, to abolish the separation between church and State, to create one demo-theocracy and to postulate to the presidency.

After in the 1844 Smiths it was assassinated his faithfuls were split and its main branch followed Young until Utah where mormones decided to establish an independent State under its religious laws. Mormones from a beginning had their own armed groups that hit their pursuers and who soon helped the USA to annex Utah, California and the north of Mexico. Young was the first governor of Utah and from its position in 1852 he legalized the polygamy, under which they got to live a third from the women mormonas. In the elections of 1856 the republicans called to end the two plagues of the polygamy and the slavery, consequently attacked Utah mormona to encourage to first and not condemning to second. In 1857 new president Buchanan sends troops on Utah which produces that the 11 of September of this year detachments mormones assassinates to 140 tired civilians and that Young is removed of their position.