“Displaying human parts in websites and museums is inhumane,” Ethiopia’s minister for culture and tourism, Hirut Woldemariam, told The Associated Press. “We have submitted a letter to the relevant officials in Britain to return the looted items and we are waiting for their reply. His young son, Prince Alemayehu, was taken to Britain and died there at age 18. “Not only material possessions were lost to the British forces,” the Victoria and Albert Museum’s website says. Securing the artifacts’ return to Ethiopia will be a gradual process and not an easy one, Pankhurst said.

Source: Washington Post April 26, 2018 09:00 UTC