November 26, 2008
Ethiopia demands return of over four hundred stolen treasures
More coverage of Ethiopia’s request addressed to many of Britain’s leading museums, for the return of stolen treasures, seized from the country in 1868.
From:
The Independent
Ethiopia demands stolen crown back
By Andrew Johnson
Sunday, 23 November 2008President writes to British museums to call for return of more than 400 treasures looted in 1868
Ethiopia is demanding that Britain’s museums return some of its most significant religious treasures. President Girma Wolde-Giorgis has personally intervened in a dispute to get the artefacts, including the Ethiopian royal crown, returned home 140 years after they were “looted” by marauding British troops.
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