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The #Parthenon and #UbirajaraBelongstoBR: a thread on old excuses and bad faith.

I've been studying restitution disputes over cultural heritage for years and one thing that never ceases to amaze me is how relentlessly repetitive and fallacious the "arguments" for retention are.+ ImageImage
As an example, let's compare one specific aspect of the longest-standing restitution claim in the world (over the Parthenon Sculptures) with the recent debate on the restitution of the #Ubirajarajubatus fossil to Brazil. @elginism @BCRPM +
In my Master's Thesis, I analyzed Greece's claim against the British Museum (BM) and the UK under the International Human Rights Law framework. For that, I had to deconstruct a recurrent argument for rejection: that Lord Elgin had authorization to remove/export the sculptures.+
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