This is the Guardian.

Today, why some museums in the UK are returning their looted Benin bronzes?

And why the British Museum isn't?

The attack was in the night and people were decimated.

About 125 years ago, in the Kingdom of Benin, which is different from the country of Benin,

and actually part of modern day Nigeria, British forces committed one of the most notorious

massacres of the colonial era.

Villages were burnt down, palas was ransacked completely and all the sacred places,

places of warship, interiors, women and children of the king were ransacked and the

chiefs were rounded up, they started bonning down houses.

In response to the killing of a party of British officials, London ordered a so-called punitive

expedition, the wiping out, not just of the king known as the Ober, but his entire kingdom.

Most of the houses were made from dry touch, so it was easy to set them on fire where people were

running their way and I don't think they allowed children and older women to leave the houses

before they set them on fire.

The British forces killed and destroyed, but they also looted on a massive scale.

Before they started young things of removing the activists, removing the bronze

works, removing the woodworks, removing the every work tasks that were neatly carved and

we are part of the otter in some of the inner sacred places of the king.

These objects ripped from the palace, became souvenirs and were shipped all over the world.

Those works that we are still in, or that period of attack and expedition as they call it

are what you would find in some of the museums around the world today.

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