Chaoswind
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Seems unlikely to me. It is indeed possible since I have watched precisely 1 episode of MLP and don't know the specifics of this event but if a competent ruler had multiple enclaves of ethnically different people, who not only have no extradition treaty with you but also do not have trials or courts or potentially even a modern government then you should probably put serious warnings around their reservations.
The third paragraph of the linked article it possibly a better way to deal with the Diamond Dogs, but I might be misestimating their civilisation's legal status. The other option here is that Celestia runs a worse government than India.
This is certainly possible, however as we see in this fiction she has laws similar to those in modern western democracies and agencies to carry those laws out such as Child Protective Services, a Department of Aboriginal Affairs (most likely, otherwise who is going to recognise the Diamond Dog justice system?) and at least an Attorney General which presumes other judges and potentially a whole, thus far unseen, judicial branch of the Equestrian government.
This suggests at least that Celestia wants to do good, from a modern western perspective, so why does all this clone-murder not get reported? If you are going forward with the idea that Celestia's government is incompetent at the least then by building all these agencies and governmental branches you are somewhat trapping yourself here I think. Celestia is probably the head of state and government but she does have other people to manage the day to day running of law, are they all incompetent or is it just that diamond dogs have especially poor representation, such that not even the apple family knew they owned the land nearby?
Presumably she got told about the mass clone killing but just assumed that a child prodigy, with well known psychological issues with empathy would have checked for sapience and consciousness first? If that were the case though what is the check for consciousness? i'm sure Grayven's DC could use that test.
Did Mayor Mare not think the whole event was odd enough to look into? Are there police departments outside of Canterlot, do none of them have magical detectives? If Celestia is stupid fine, but this direction I think needs to find all ponies stupid pretty shortly. Which is why I refer to the bearers as children because I think all of the ponies have the emotional and intellectual abilites of children, some of them very smart children but children nonetheless.
Edit: Imagine a species that didn't reach mental maturity until after their bodies wore out from age, seems like a cool sci-fi premise. Still I think Celestia deserves a bit more credit than she is getting, or else the whole society needs overhauling.
I think the idea is that not even they believed the diamond dogs had a claim to that land until they were made aware of a very old law in regards to the status of tribal species and their rights and its even implied most other species had integrated to equestrian a long time ago and were under the purview of their laws. So the issue is that the diamond dogs didn't integrate and the bureaucracy kinda forgot about it. That is understandable because even if they have a lot of departments their record keeping is extremely medieval.
Rarity is unlikely to face much punishment beyond giving the dogs an apology and payment for the gems she extracted. The thing with spike is a nothing burger for the most part, the extermination of magical clones is a much bigger issue in regards to morality, but I am unsure if pony legislation and laws are build to handle them, thus twilight isn't going to face legal troubles but more like moral ones. Grayven better speed down a notch otherwise he is going to break the maggufin he wants to use to kill the anti-life.
In short, 'you broke it hero'.
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