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[ottbmare]

Oh, my God, get over it. Horrible things happened to my ancestors 200 years ago and I’m not still “hurt and angry” about it. Take off those frilly panties and deal with it.

[Lockbar]

Kind of ungrateful. Maybe the chief deserved it. I say just keep it and auction it off.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> “I am hurt, angry. My grandfather has been killed,” said Joseph Jones Amoah, the great, great grandson of the chief.

Translation: “What?? No baksheesh? No payola?? Whaaaa!”

[theFIRMbss]

>The head of King Badu Bonsu II was discovered last year in a jar of formaldehyde gathering dust

[Arthur McGowan]

There was a story that beat that a few years ago: The descendants of an Anglican missionary received an apology at a reconciliation ceremony from the descendants of the people who ate him.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> The elders demanded the Dutch government provide aid to their tribe to appease the slain chief.

> Nana Kwekwe Darko III, who tipped the gin on the floor in a Ghanaian tradition of respect for the dead, dabbed tears from his eyes afterward and said he wanted the Dutch to build schools and hospitals for his people.

Ah-huh. I knew if I read further into the article there would be a demand for “compensation”, and here it is!

[CaptRon]

who was hanged and decapitated by a Dutch general 171 years ago reluctantly accepted the return of his severed head Thursday, still angry even as the Dutch tried to right a historic wrong.

"What am I gonna do with this?!"

[LiberConservative]

I’ll take Holland over Ghana in a 2 hour war.

[Eleutheria5]

What do the Dutch have to do, give you head?

[guitarplayer1953]

It would be interesting to find out why the Chief was beheaded.

[guitarplayer1953]

The head was taken by Maj. Gen. Jan Verveer in 1838 in retaliation for Bonsu's killing of two Dutch emissaries, whose heads were displayed as trophies on Bonsu's throne,

I knew there was more to this story than just returning the head it appears that it was in retaliation for them beheading tow of the Dutch emissaries.

[fso301]

Can’t they show us a picture?

[Allegra]

This thread is useless without pics.

;-)

[Popman]

The head was taken by Maj. Gen. Jan Verveer in 1838 in retaliation for Bonsu's killing of two Dutch emissaries, whose heads were displayed as trophies on Bonsu's throne,

SO this King had the heads of two people displayed on his throne and they see nothing wrong with this ?????

The elders demanded the Dutch government provide aid to their tribe to appease the slain chief.

Follow the money.....................

[workerbee]

On Thursday, members of the king's Ahanta tribe, dressed in dark robes and wearing red sashes, took part in the hand-over ceremony, honoring his spirit by toasting with Dutch gin and then sprinkling the drink over the floor at the Dutch Foreign Ministry.

Somehow I knew there was gonna be alcohol in this story...

[sinanju]

“The head was taken by Maj. Gen. Jan Verveer in 1838 in retaliation for Bonsu’s killing of two Dutch emissaries, whose heads were displayed as trophies on Bonsu’s throne, said Arthur Japin, a Dutch author who discovered the king’s head when he was working on a historical novel.”

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What’s with the apologies? Sounds like a little old-fashioned give-and-take to me.

[OpeEdMunkey]

So...does Holland get the heads of the two Dutch emissaries back?

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Freaky stuff: