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@IntekoyUmuco (#RCHA) together with @Uni_Rwanda, @GermanyinRwanda, @Aegis_Trust, @GoetheKigali and others hold a workshop on German colonial rule in #Rwanda: Repatriation and memorization of human remains. The workshop is taking place at Kandt House Museum.
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@IntekoyUmuco (#RCHA) together with @Uni_Rwanda, @GermanyinRwanda, @Aegis_Trust, @GoetheKigali and others hold a workshop on German colonial rule in #Rwanda: Repatriation and memorization of human remains. The workshop is taking place at Kandt House Museum.
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The participants of the workshop are now elaborating on the issue of human remains from #Rwanda that were brought to Germany, in the so-called Mecklenburg expedition of 1907-1909, during the German colonial period in Rwanda.
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In his remarks, #RCHA's DG, Amb. @MasozeraRobert noted that this issue was unknown until 2017, when the German Government, through #Rwanda's embassy in Berlin, informed Rwanda of the existence of those remains in the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin.
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In 2018 a joint team of Rwandan and German researchers was set up with the mandate to investigate the context in which these human remains were collected, the provenance of these human remains, but also to make suggestions related to what should be done with these remains.
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The research collected important information related to the provenance of around 925 human remains from Rwanda that were brought to Germany. This provenance research revealed that these human remains originated from 13 districts of #Rwanda.
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The first book on this research has recently been published, with the title "Human Remains from the Former German Colony of East Africa: Recontextualization and Approaches for Restitution.
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A new research is planned aiming at preparing the repatriation of the aforementioned human remains.
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