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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by Barrin92 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:40PM (#32859968)
it's just pretext. The obvious answer is, let the parties in question figure it out. I'm sure they'll come to an agreement on how to share custody of historical artifacts as long as they come back home rather than stay in Britain.

Art and historical objects circle through different museums all the time, it's not a new concept. "Gosh I plundered something from India or Pakistan, oh my whoever will I give it back to?!" isn't a serious issue

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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by Arainach on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:53PM (#32860087)
>I'm sure they'll come to an agreement

That's not how geopolitics works, particularly in that section of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Pakistan_relatio...

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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by Barrin92 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:44PM (#32860507)
mate I know who India and Pakistan are, there's a difference between zero sum conflict between both countries and getting colonial artifacts back from Britain. You'd be surprised how easy agreement on the latter would be.
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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by mc32 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:54PM (#32860101)
Two of the parties have not figured out a bigger problem: Kashmir.
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