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miki_tyler | karma 201 | avg karma 1.6 · 2022-06-29 06:32:27

If you find this amusing maybe you should spend some time at the British Museum. Like it or not they have the law on their side.

causi | karma 10384 | avg karma 4.36 · 2022-06-29 06:43:25

Law that, like being looted, Colombia never agreed to.

manuelabeledo | karma 3944 | avg karma 2.54 · 2022-06-29 07:53:49

Colombia didn’t exist as a country when the ship sank.

Also, international maritime law is, well, international. Unless Colombia decides that they would withdraw from the UN and international courts, of course it will apply to them.

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bigDinosaur | karma 2571 | avg karma 2.94 · 2022-06-29 08:25:09

So if I steal something from a country, with my own ship, and it sinks, the country from which I've stolen from automatically loses all rights to recovery of the stolen goods?

manuelabeledo | karma 3944 | avg karma 2.54 · 2022-06-29 08:28:14

It depends. Does that country exist?

Colombia was under the Spanish crown rule between 1525 and 1810, thus there was not a country there, at least not legally.

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djohnston | karma 3677 | avg karma 2.67 · 2022-06-29 08:56:36

You're implying there was a Colombian gov't that owned it to begin with. But there wasn't a Colombia.

lentil_soup | karma 3255 | avg karma 5.83 · 2022-06-29 09:19:00

The article does say Colombia hasn't actually signed that international treaty, so it seems it doesn't apply to them

ukdevguy | karma 1 | avg karma 0.5 · 2022-06-29 07:02:46

Speaking of which, If the UK sank it then I'm surprised they haven't claimed it to be theirs.

saiya-jin | karma 4446 | avg karma 1.04 · 2022-06-29 10:16:35

You mean all those items stolen all over the world when enslaving and murdering civilians in pretty massive scale?

Pretty horrible sight if you ask me, a shame on British soul and something former colonial countries still keep asking forgiveness for, for very good reasons

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