France restores the skull of the monarch that was killed during the colonial era

He was returned head to the King of Malaghashiya, who was killed by French forces during a war in the colonial era to Madagascar.

The skull of King Tuwara – and on other members of his trial – was handed over at a ceremony at the Ministry of Culture in Paris.

Skulls were brought to France at the end of the nineteenth century and stored in the Museum of Natural History in the French capital.

This is the first use of a new law aimed at speeding up the return of human remains from groups in France.

“These skulls entered the national groups in conditions that are clearly violating human dignity and in the context of colonial violence,” Agence France Presse reported.

In August 1897, a French force was sent to confirm colonial control over the Kingdom of Minabe to the people of Sakalafa in the west of Madagascar, slaughtering a local army.

King Tuwara was killed and beheaded: He sent his head to Paris, where he was placed in the archive of the Natural History Museum.

After about 130 years, pressure from the descendants of the king, as well as the government of the Indian Ocean nation opened the way to return the skull.

The Minister of Madagascar Culture, Volamante, Donna Mara, who also delivered a speech in the delivery process, said their return was a “great gesture”, according to Agence France -Presse reports.

“Their absence, for more than a century … was an open wound in the heart of our island,” she said.

This is not the first time that human remains from the colonial era have been provided by France.

The most famous was the woman of South Africa harshly received “Hottletot Venus” in Europe and Which his body was transferred to the house in 2012.

But this is the first return under a modern law that makes the process much easier.

It is estimated that in the Museum of Natural History alone, there are more than 20,000 human remains that were brought to France from all over the world for assumed scientific reasons.