{"id":90216,"date":"2025-08-30T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90216"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:05:24","slug":"france-hands-back-human-remains-to-madagascar-127-years-after-colonial-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/france-hands-back-human-remains-to-madagascar-127-years-after-colonial-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"France hands back human remains to Madagascar, 127 years after colonial massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k1WL0cyZSvLVLKDJjoa\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nFrance has formally returned three colonial-era skulls to Madagascar, one of which is believed to belong to a Malagasy king who was beheaded by French troops during a massacre in 1897. His skull was then taken back to Paris as a trophy and placed in the archives of the Natural History Museum. It&#8217;s the first restitution of human remains since France passed a law to facilitate their return two years ago.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has formally returned three colonial-era skulls to Madagascar, one of which is believed to belong to a Malagasy king who was beheaded by French troops during a massacre in 1897. His skull was then taken back to Paris as a trophy and placed in the archives of the Natural History Museum. It&#8217;s the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[38206,403,2772],"class_list":["post-90216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-colonial-massacre","tag-france","tag-madagascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90218,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90216\/revisions\/90218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}