Submitted by dingodoyle t3_ytfkfv in UpliftingNews
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Imaginary-Redditor t1_iw3ui68 wrote
Country returns another countries treasures that they should have never of stolen in the first place.
DigitalSteven1 t1_iw3w4oj wrote
Ok, UK, your turn.
PM_ME_UR_POOP_GIRL t1_iw40qj8 wrote
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.
NoWayNotThisAgain t1_iw47yht wrote
They’ll be set as soon as they rebuild their washed away museums.
x925 t1_iw4cy6w wrote
Why read the article when I can just read the headline and make uninformed opinions.
WackSparrow t1_iw4dw4t wrote
I taught one of their generals how to swim
Darth_Bfheidir t1_iw4iyhy wrote
Wow, it's rare that you have the US being the unequivocal good guys, good job!
Lt_Pyjamas t1_iw4jomj wrote
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dingodoyle OP t1_iw4o9fo wrote
The US didn’t steal these things, it was some Indian dude who trafficked them. The US did the prosecuting and returning.
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.
PM_ME_UR_POOP_GIRL t1_iw526ec wrote
I'm not familiar, I'll have to add it to my watch list. Thanks!
Tdanger78 t1_iw52sc3 wrote
This is the way now
Talonsminty t1_iw5h9f0 wrote
Oh well golly gee old chum look at the time. Must dash got tickets to the cricket. Cheerio!
_Iro_ t1_iw5ob8k wrote
It was a criminal art dealer who stole the artifacts, not the US. The US didn’t even know he had the artifacts until they arrested him.
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vingeran t1_iw5upyw wrote
An Indian dude taking Pakistani things to the states. That’s badass stupid.
ParanoidAndOKWithIt t1_iw62xnj wrote
I do recall that being a thing.
rattpackfan301 t1_iw66pyq wrote
Yes, because the United States stole womens rights from Pakistan.
Evil-Cartographer t1_iw6dr27 wrote
Just when Americans go around and kill half a million civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan after slaughtering millions in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Or toppling democracies in Latin America to install right wing dictators.
All to open them up for exploitation by US corporations.
Vroomped t1_iw6us3r wrote
Grandma is the artifact
RLoge85 t1_iw73zk3 wrote
The people support the politicians that allow this to go on actually might be quite shitty though.
cjboffoli t1_iw74b5l wrote
The US government can always be relied upon to do the right thing. After they have exhausted every other possibility.
MortisSafetyTortoise t1_iw7byjm wrote
Cool. Now do the the thousands of Indigenous American artifacts.
Thugluvdoc t1_iw7en25 wrote
England is hiding in the bushes right now
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Brainship t1_iw8gns2 wrote
funny how we'll right the wrongs of others but none of our own.
Evil-Cartographer t1_iw8woj4 wrote
My point exactly. And then half started foaming at the mouth with racism when the possibility that some from the countries we destroyed could become refugees here. Like who do you think made them refugees?
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