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PM_ME_UR_POOP_GIRL t1_iw40qj8 wrote

Reply to comment by Imaginary-Redditor in US Returns 192 Stolen Antiquities to Pakistan by dingodoyle

Hurr durr, America bad! Oh, wait, let's try actually reading the article...

>187 were seized pursuant to the Office’s investigation into SUBHASH KAPOOR, while the remaining were recovered pursuant to other ongoing criminal investigations.

>(...)the Office indicted KAPOOR and his seven co-defendants for their conspiracy to traffic stolen antiquities.

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x925 t1_iw4cy6w wrote

Why read the article when I can just read the headline and make uninformed opinions.

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Loggerdon t1_iw50lqo wrote

What's that George Clooney movie "The Monuments Men"? In WW2 they saved 5 million pieces of art that had been stolen by Nazis.

"Many were the product of looting by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Others had been legitimately evacuated from museums for safekeeping. Monuments Men oversaw the safeguarding, cataloguing, removal and packing of all works from all these repositories."

They had to make up all the procedures because no army had ever thought of saving cultural property in this way before.

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