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JudasWasJesus t1_iucnsar wrote

Reply to comment by SterlingMNO in UK museums willing to return skulls to Zimbabwe by Jaamac2025

Europeans did/do keep remains as trophies.

Belgium refuse to return remains (a single tooth) of Zimbabwe first prime minster lumumba assinated in 1961

https://africa.cgtn.com/2021/05/22/slain-independence-hero-lumumbas-last-remains-to-return-home/

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worthing0101 t1_iue7u5j wrote

>Belgium refuse to return remains

Seems on brand for a country that also put Congolese men, women and children in the world's last human zoo for the 1958 world's fair:

>The 1958 exhibit was smaller in scale, but similar in content. A “typical” village was set up, where the Congolese spent their days carrying out their crafts by straw huts while they were mocked by the white men and women who stood at the edge. > >“If there was no reaction, they threw money or bananas over the closure of bamboo,” one journalist wrote at the time of the spectators. > >Another report told of people gossiping about “seeing the negros at the zoological gardens”

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