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autotldr t1_iudgqpi wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)

> London's Natural History Museum and Cambridge University have said that they are ready to co-operate with Zimbabwe to return human remains that were taken in the colonial era.

> The authorities in Zimbabwe have long suspected that the remains of some of the leaders of an uprising against British rule in the 1890s - known as the First Chimurenga - were taken to the UK as trophies.

> Zimbabwe's government believes that somehow the skulls of the country's heroes ended up in the archives of a British museum.

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shavingourbeards t1_iue7z1j wrote

« somehow the skulls of the country's heroes ended up in the archives of a British museum »

It sounds so fucked up when put that way… It’s about time this happened.

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