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B |     The announcement was handed down by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which approved 24 objects for return, including jewelry, tools, and fashion items.,“The decision makes clear that the issue of the return of items collected in a colonial context does not always come down to injustice,” foundation president Hermann Parzinger said in a statement. “The special significance – in particular spiritual – of an artifact for the community it originated from may also justify return.”,Included on the list is the shell-studded statue of Ngonnso’, the mother goddess of the Nso’ people of northwestern Cameroon, which was “donated” to Berlin’s Ethnological Museum in 1903 by a German military officer.,Also included were objects seized during the Maji Maji Rebellion, an anti-colonial upheaval that rocked German East Africa, a territory including modern-day Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda, from 1905 to 1907. As many as 300,000 Africans were killed in Germany’s suppression of the uprising.,In May, the museum announced it was sending 23 stolen artifacts to Namibia on long-term loan, but was not returning them outright. Berlin reached a deal last year to admit it committed genocide against Namibia’s Herero and Nama peoples from 1904 to 1908, when they rose up against German colonization and were driven off their land and into the desert as punishment. The deal includes a $1.4 billion payment to Namibia, but the descendants of those who survived have called it insufficient to right the wrongs committed.,Germany to Pay Namibia $1.3Bln in Recognition of 20th Century Genocide28 May 2021, 07:13 GMT,Germany has also pledged to send other artifacts back to Africa, including the famous Benin Bronzes, intricate sculptures taken from the Kingdom of Benin, which is today part of Nigeria, despite the existence of the country of Benin, which was a German colony.,A study commissioned by the French government in 2018, another former major colonial power in Africa, found that more than 90% of African art is housed in museums outside the continent. However, even in Europe, much of the art pillaged by the Nazis in their continent-spanning wars in the 1930s and 1940s also has not been returned and continues to be traded.,The news also comes as the remains of Patrice Lumumba, the architect of Congo-Kinshasa’s independence and the country’s first leader, were returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Belgium, the former colonial ruler. Lumumba was assassinated by the US and Belgian governments in 1961 for his left-wing politics. His remains have been prepared for burial in Haut-Katanga for June 30, which is DR Congo’s independence day.。阿德恩当天接受媒体采访时，被问及英国君主更替是否会在新西兰引发共和制的讨论。“我从未感觉到这种紧迫性，”她说，“这是一场有重要意义的大辩论。我不认为这是一件将很快或者应该很快发生的事情。”新西兰是英联邦国家，采用君主立宪制，英国君主为国家元首。总督作为君主代表，不干预政府运作。关于新西兰是否应成为共和制国家的辩论已在该国持续一段时间。

C | 不少人呼吁实行共和制，让新西兰公民出任国家元首。

D | “我相信这是新西兰未来发展的方向，也相信这将在我有生之年发生，但我不认为这会在短期内提上议程。”阿德恩说。新西兰定于26日举行全国哀悼并放假一天，以悼念伊丽莎白二世。

E | 阿德恩和总督辛迪·基罗将代表新西兰于14日启程前往英国首都伦敦，出席女王葬礼。在塔斯曼海彼岸、同为英联邦国家的澳大利亚，英国女王辞世同样再度引发关于澳大利亚政治制度的辩论。据路透社报道，澳大利亚总理安东尼·阿尔巴尼斯先前发声支持共和制，现在说他领导的工党政府在首个任期内不会就此寻求公民投票。

F | 1999年，澳大利亚就是否建立共和制举行公投，未获通过，但相关讨论活跃至今。（完）（李富玉）返回搜狐，查看更多责任编辑：