{"id":38736,"date":"2025-08-27T00:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/08\/27\/france-hands-back-human-remains-to-madagascar-127-years-after-colonial-massacre\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:02:14","slug":"france-hands-back-human-remains-to-madagascar-127-years-after-colonial-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/08\/27\/france-hands-back-human-remains-to-madagascar-127-years-after-colonial-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"France hands back human remains to Madagascar 127 years after colonial massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>France has formally returned 3 colonial-era skulls to Madagscar &#8212; one of which is believed to belong to a Malagasy king who was beheaded by French troops during a massacre in 1897.His skull then taken back to Paris as a trophy, and placed in the archives of the Natural History Museum. It&rsquo;s the first restitution of human remains since France passed a law to facilitate their return two years ago.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has formally returned 3 colonial-era skulls to Madagscar &#8212; one of which is believed to belong to a Malagasy king who was beheaded by French troops during a massacre in 1897.His skull then taken back to Paris as a trophy, and placed in the archives of the Natural History Museum. It&rsquo;s the first restitution &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-38736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}