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29 Bowlby, “The palace of shame that makes China angry”.
30 Royal Engineers Museum Acquisitions and Disposals Policy, 2012.
31 Both documents included conventions respecting the “Laws and Customs of War on Land”
which forbids any sort of pillaging.
32 Armed Forces Act, 2006, Part 1, Article 4, Looting.
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