From today’s issue of the The Scotsman:
Tony Blair must return Ethiopian sacred objects and ancient artefacts looted by British troops more than a century ago and now locked up in museums and royal palaces, a leading scholar demanded today …
The prime minister – scheduled to arrive in Ethiopia tomorrow to explore new ways of helping Africa – should repatriate rare religious books and manuscripts and hundreds of other Ethiopian treasures, historian Richard Pankhurst said in Addis Ababa.
Many of the sacred objects and artefacts were looted by rampaging British troops after annihilating the Ethiopian army at the Battle of Maqdala in 1868 …
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