Activists Have Had It With The Buyers Of Looted Antiquities

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Activists Have Had It With The Buyers Of Looted Antiquities

The problems of informal payments and freeports mean that "Western collectors are buying without fear of much reprisal, despite the already present provisions in international law that prohibit pillaging and include it as a war crime."  - NPR

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The data is connected to an IP address—an identifier that’s like a computer’s mailing address and can generally be linked to a specific individual or household—creating an intimate receipt of the appointment request for Facebook…”

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