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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:26 AM
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Dutch to return Ghana king's head
The BBC has some weird for you tonight:

The head of a Ghanaian king executed by Dutch colonists in the 1830s is to be returned to its homeland for burial, say authorities in the Netherlands.

Badu Bonsu II, leader of the Ashanti tribe, is believed to have been decapitated in retaliation for the killing of two Dutch emissaries.

The Leiden museum, which has been storing the head, said it hoped it could now have a dignified burial.
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