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However, if one adopts the view that purely political violence does not constitute

piracy because it is not for private ends, then both interpretations of the SUA
Convention can be reconciled. The fact political violence does not constitute grounds
for the exercise of the special jurisdictional grounds of international piracy does not
mean such violence is condoned. Such action is always unjustifiable; it is just not dealt
with via the piracy provisions.-part IV C of SUA Convention.

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