British media: Cultural relics stolen and exposed. The British Museum's absurd behavior of refusing to return cultural relics is very insulting to Britain | Cultural relics | The British Museum
On August 29th, the theft of cultural relics from the British Museum has attracted widespread attention, with many countries demanding that the museum return looted artifacts from other countries. The Guardian published an article on August 27th stating that the theft of cultural relics exposed the absurd stance of the British Museum in returning cultural relics.
According to British media reports, the UK refused to return looted cultural relics to their original sites under the pretext of "protecting the safety of cultural relics". In 1963, the British Museum Act was even amended to prohibit the return of cultural relics in the form of legislation. However, the British Museum itself was unable to determine the specific quantity of its collection and lost more than 2000 items, which is truly absurd.
Labour MP Andy said that the British Museum is even too lazy to determine what was stolen. Bell Ribeiro, the chairman of the cross party African reparations group in parliament, believes that some people in the UK have hung their collections on eBay auction websites, while the British Museum believes that the country where the artifacts belong cannot take good care of them. This reason for not returning artifacts is very insulting.
Professor Dan Hicks, the author of the book "Museum of Savage," stated that the theft should prompt the British Museum to change its "imperialist" stance as a guardian of World Heritage sites.