Dutch university says it has tribal chief's head { Badu Bonsu II }

AP via SFGate ^ | 12/23/8 | TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer

[SmithL]

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- It's a brutal 19th century revenge story: An African tribal chief kills two Dutch emissaries and hangs their heads from his throne. In retaliation, a Dutch general has him killed and decapitated.

Almost 200 years later, the dispute may finally be laid to rest. On Tuesday, a Dutch academic hospital acknowledged it has the head of chief Badu Bonsu II, but it would not disclose whether it would be returned to Ghana as requested.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Without burial of the head, the deceased will be hunted in the afterlife.

Sounds like a fair punishment. Encase it in plastic. Haven't the Dutch found that ethnic sensitivity is a dead end?

[DieHard the Hunter]

This must be a trend amongst indigenous people, having heads returned from museums.

Over the past few years Maori have gone to some considerable effort to have the tattooed heads of their ancestors returned to NZ from museums around the world.

[IronJack]

Did the third-worlders return the Dutchmen’s heads?

[WorkingClassFilth]

Sounds like a foreign policy that should be revived by the Dutch - especially for those that would seek to undermine and destroy their nation and culture (name your flavor here).

[AnalogReigns]

Last I heard, Oliver Cromwell’s head is still (officially) missing in Engliand...

[kalee]

It was buried in the grounds of Sidney Sussex College, one of the 31 residential colleges that collectively make up Cambridge University, on March 25, 1960, three centuries after Cromwell’s death. The college keeps the precise location of the grave secret.