Submitted on Thursday 8th February 2018
Rejected on Wednesday 7th March 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Return stolen precious collections back to the owner country Ethiopia .
There are numbers of collections in the national library of UK "The British Library" ; which are not collected in a legal standard way. Quite frankly they have been brought to the place by action of theft. Inaddtion to this; the precious collections have not been used correctly as they should.
There are collections such as manuscripts that have been brought by stealing in different occasion from the country Ethiopia. This manuscript are precious also dates back many centuries.
The library stated "One of the library's core purposes is to make collections accessible to everyone". However this action can not be done by theft they should have consent from the ownership and they don't have it.
Therefore I call up on the UK Government and the House of Commons to take action here in the 21st century.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The repatriation of an item from the collection of the British Museum is a matter for the Trustees of the British Museum, not the UK Government or Parliament.
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