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news & events news from June 2004 June 30 Politicians back AFROMET's Edinburgh appeal AFROMET press release 30 June 04 Two of Ethiopia's most senior politicians today threw their weight behind a campaign to persuade Edinburgh University to return five stolen sacred manuscripts. Teshome Toga, Ethiopian Minister of Youth Sports and Culture, and Dawit Yohannes, Speaker of Ethiopia's House of People's Representatives [its parliament], have written to staff at the University library, asking them to hand over the holy books that were taken from Ethiopia by British troops more than 130 years ago. |
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