http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/seizure-saf-armoured-vehicles-hong-kong-against-international-law-ng-eng-hen
When did our defence minister, a medical doctor, become an expert in international and HK laws. If our SG tanks en route to HK was legal, there's no basis for our tanks to be detained in HK and HK wouldn't have proclaimed that the detainment was due to improper documentation.
We're making a BIG mistake to declare that HK contravened international law and its own HK laws just to detain SG tanks especially our tanks are still being seized in HK.
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Our minister should quote the Act, Section and Clause of the international law that was breached by HK to make it more convincing. Just saying international law per se won't make it more persuasive and less ambiguous. SG is behaving like USA now by stating international law without any mention of the Act, Section and Clause.
HK can say it is acting in accordance to its HK and international laws too. Then what are we going to say or do next when we have different interpretations of international laws?
If no country can detain any foreign military weapon from any sovereignty in your own country which is what our minister is saying because the tanks belong to SG, that means any foreign military weapons en route to SG cannot be detained too. This doesn't make sense as other countries can use your port to smuggle military weapons.
http://time.com/3736934/china-ship-wu-hong-weapons-trafficking-cubs/
The article above shows that any country has the right to detain any military weapon in its own premise according to local and international laws. Therefore, immunity for any measure of constraint does not apply.
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