A large number of cultural relics were stolen by the British Museum of the British Museum of British well -known Museum in the UK.
Global Network Sunday (August 27) published an article entitled to the Social Review in the middle of the night: Please ask the British Museum to return Chinese cultural relics for free, saying "as a Chinese media, formally requests to the British Museum, please pass all through all through the British Museum. Please pass all through all.Chinese cultural relics obtained by non -justified channels return China freely. "
The article shouts that the British Museum" do not adopt resistance, delay and perfunctory attitude ".Start "this work that should have been done long ago."
Global Times article also said that it supports other countries such as India, Nigeria, and Greece that have been looted by Britain, such as India, Nigeria, Greece,Calling the British government to cooperate with laws and related procedures, saying that "this will be a test and verification of whether Britain sincerely wash colonial stains and make up for historical crimes."
The article refers to the most of the 8 million collections collected by the British Museum, most of which are from other countries outside the United Kingdom, and a considerable part of it is obtained through non -proper channels.Among them, there are about 23,000 cultural relics from China, including the Tang Dynasty copies of the female history, the statue of Liao Sancai Luo Han, the Shang and Zhou Bronze, and the Wei and Jin Stone Buddhist scriptures and other Chinese national treasures.Take advantage of the fire, and even directly cable for Chinese manufacturing. "
After the above article was released, Monday (28th) appeared on the top of Sina Weibo hot search list. Many Chinese netizens expressed their support in the comments.However, some netizens believe that officials should communicate through diplomatic channels. The media published Chinese articles can only earn traffic and cannot achieve the substantial effect.
After a large number of cultural relics were stolen or even auctioned by the Internet, the Museum Mayor Fishir announced his resignation on August 25 to bear the responsibility for the museum's previously not fully investigated the collection of collections; the chairman of the museum board of directorsOsborne said on the 26th that the number of disappeared cultural relics was about 2,000, and the recovery work is currently underway.
The disappearance of cultural relics has triggered strong protests from various countries, requiring the British Museum to return the cultural relics.Among them, Greece once again asked the United Kingdom to return to the cultural relics from Greece in the 19th century, and countries such as Nigeria also called on the British Museum to return the plunder's cultural relics.