Poet urges UK to return remains of Ethiopia’s stolen prince by S_Fleary1
THERE ARE growing calls for the United Kingdom to return the remains of a ‘stolen’ Ethiopian prince Prince Alemayehu.
“They did the same to me! Touching your hair and licking their fingers and touching your skin to see if your colour would come off.”He added: “Ethiopia was never colonised, so the Ethiopian mentally is not one of someone who has been victimised, so this Battle of Maqdala is like a scar on the body of Ethiopia.
A formal request for the return of the Prince’s remains was sent to Queen Elizabeth in 2007, by the then Ethiopian president Girma Wolde-Giorgis.Sissay said that one of the last things British-Ethiopian scholar Richard Pankhurst said to him before he passed away was to “get the manuscripts” – referring to stolen ancient Ethiopian manuscripts being held in British museums and libraries.
He revealed that several high-profile Ethiopians have demanded the remains be returned but their requests went unanswered.: “He would have wanted to go home and one has to consider what his wish was.” “I don’t think it would be difficult to identify the bones. I’m sure his remains would be kept in a casket separate from others because they know he was royalty.” Ethiopian Amhara activist Yodith Gideon, from Stop Amhara Genocide, said the prince’s remains should be repatriated back to Ethiopia. “What belongs to Ethiopia should be returned to Ethiopia.”
“However, they have been advised that it is very unlikely that it would be possible to exhume the remains without disturbing the resting place of a substantial number of others in the vicinity.
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