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[yialousa1971]

The slogan “Bring them Back” echoed all over the British Museum!



PRESS RELEASE

London, 25 October 2010

The afternoon of Saturday October 23rd outside the British Museum, was strikingly different to any other. The flashes of the visitors were immortalising not any of the Museums’ stolen exhibits, but rather, the demonstrators standing in the front yard of the Museum, who wearing black t-shirts, holding banners and placards, were conveying the demand of the Hellenes anywhere in the world: “Bring Them Back”.

The demonstration for the return and restoration of the Parthenon Sculptures, organised by the ‘METOPO Cypriot Student Movement UK’ and the non-governmental organisation ‘Artclick’, under the campaign “Bring Them Back”, was an ultimate absolute success, as the people embraced it and dynamically became part of it.







The visitors of the Museum, informed as they were by the students of METOPO who were distributing leaflets regarding the Parthenon sculptures and the “Bring Them Back” campaign outside the Museum, were now facing, along with the demonstrators, reality: the Hellenic civilisation is the Hellenic Pride and the protests of the Hellenes for their stolen dignity are completely just.

The President of METOPO, Marios Nicolaou, delivered a resolution to the competent authorities of the Museum, demanding the return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece, as well as analyzing and crushing their cheap and untrue arguments regarding the so-called protection of the marbles. Of course, the sculptures were not returned. However, we are under no circumstance willing to stop here. The demonstration that took place last Saturday was only the beginning. We understand that our struggle for the reinstatement of the Parthenon Sculptures will be long and difficult, but we feel that it is our duty to be part of this campaign, for as long as these Hellenic cultural treasures is held unlawfully in the country where our movement is based.





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METOPO Cypriot Student Movement UK

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http://www.metopo.org.uk/dt2010010025-diamartyriamarmaraEN.html

[bill cobbett]

Clear Off!

[lola-tulip]

Hallo bill cobbetts

Do you not realise the fate of the Parthenon marbles is analogous to the fate of the GCs? Whilst so little regard is placed upon rightful ownership, and the right to return to one's shelter of thousands of years, by the mightier powers who envy and strip us of our properties, then we can never hope to liberate Cyprus for our people.

It is a crying shame that the religious significance of this cultural bastion is mocked by the British authorities who claim the higher echelons of sophistication for themselves.



Once the home of our goddess Athena, the Parthena, then later a Christian Church for the Virgin (Parthena) Mary, it has seen many invaders. It took the Brits, with the help of the Turks, to strip it. Ditto Cyprus.

[bill cobbett]

Hallo bill cobbetts

Do you not realise the fate of the Parthenon marbles is analogous to the fate of the GCs? Whilst so little regard is placed upon rightful ownership, and the right to return to one's shelter of thousands of years, by the mightier powers who envy and strip us of our properties, then we can never hope to liberate Cyprus for our people.

It is a crying shame that the religious significance of this cultural bastion is mocked by the British authorities who claim the higher echelons of sophistication for themselves.



Once the home of our goddess Athena, the Parthena, then later a Christian Church for the Virgin (Parthena) Mary, it has seen many invaders. It took the Brits, with the help of the Turks, to strip it. Ditto Cyprus.

Hello LolaT .... and ............Pollocks!

No one has a right to own the World's Treasures. Those who think of these things in terms of property and ownership, rightful or otherwise, really are losing the plot and devalue the very things they claim to treasure.

Much of this campaign, and this is borne out by the pickies of those unshaven, black-shirted and prob un-washed protesters in the picky above, is about Nationalism, and this is also supported by the statement of the Spokesperson for the nationalist rabble who describes the Marbles thus...

" .......these Hellenic cultural treasures ...... " !!!!!!!!!

Now that's a nationalism that some in places like Gr and Tr may be comfortable with, but please be so kind as to keep that kind of very offensive trash out of our Enlightened London and out of debates about conservation.

... and while we're at it, let's put a good deal of the blame for the appallingly sorry state of the modern-day Acropolis where it belongs.... two thousand years of deliberate suppression and defacement of what were seen as Embarrassing Symbols of a Former Paganism by Orthodox Christianity, and a century or more of neglect and incompetence by modern Gr governments, who have proved themselves as good at preserving heritage as they are at managing the public finances.

[Gregory]

Hallo bill cobbetts

Do you not realise the fate of the Parthenon marbles is analogous to the fate of the GCs? Whilst so little regard is placed upon rightful ownership, and the right to return to one's shelter of thousands of years, by the mightier powers who envy and strip us of our properties, then we can never hope to liberate Cyprus for our people.

It is a crying shame that the religious significance of this cultural bastion is mocked by the British authorities who claim the higher echelons of sophistication for themselves.



Once the home of our goddess Athena, the Parthena, then later a Christian Church for the Virgin (Parthena) Mary, it has seen many invaders. It took the Brits, with the help of the Turks, to strip it. Ditto Cyprus.

Hello LolaT .... and ............Pollocks!

No one has a right to own the World's Treasures. Those who think of these things in terms of property and ownership, rightful or otherwise, really are losing the plot and devalue the very things they claim to treasure.

Much of this campaign, and this is borne out by the pickies of those unshaven, black-shirted and prob un-washed protesters in the picky above, is about Nationalism, and this is also supported by the statement of the Spokesperson for the nationalist rabble who describes the Marbles thus...

" .......these Hellenic cultural treasures ...... " !!!!!!!!!

Now that's a nationalism that some in places like Gr and Tr may be comfortable with, but please be so kind as to keep that kind of very offensive trash out of our Enlightened London and out of debates about conservation.

... and while we're at it, let's put a good deal of the blame for the appallingly sorry state of the modern-day Acropolis where it belongs.... two thousand years of deliberate suppression and defacement of what were seen as Embarrassing Symbols of a Former Paganism by Orthodox Christianity, and a century or more of neglect and incompetence by modern Gr governments, who have proved themselves as good at preserving heritage as they are at managing the public finances.

What are you talking about? The Parthenon was under Ottoman rule till 1821. Those imbeciles used it as an ammunition storage facility until they managed to blow the temple up.

[lola-tulip]

Hallo bill cobbetts

Do you not realise the fate of the Parthenon marbles is analogous to the fate of the GCs? Whilst so little regard is placed upon rightful ownership, and the right to return to one's shelter of thousands of years, by the mightier powers who envy and strip us of our properties, then we can never hope to liberate Cyprus for our people.

It is a crying shame that the religious significance of this cultural bastion is mocked by the British authorities who claim the higher echelons of sophistication for themselves.



Once the home of our goddess Athena, the Parthena, then later a Christian Church for the Virgin (Parthena) Mary, it has seen many invaders. It took the Brits, with the help of the Turks, to strip it. Ditto Cyprus.

Hello LolaT .... and ............Pollocks!

No one has a right to own the World's Treasures. Those who think of these things in terms of property and ownership, rightful or otherwise, really are losing the plot and devalue the very things they claim to treasure.

Much of this campaign, and this is borne out by the pickies of those unshaven, black-shirted and prob un-washed protesters in the picky above, is about Nationalism, and this is also supported by the statement of the Spokesperson for the nationalist rabble who describes the Marbles thus...

" .......these Hellenic cultural treasures ...... " !!!!!!!!!

Now that's a nationalism that some in places like Gr and Tr may be comfortable with, but please be so kind as to keep that kind of very offensive trash out of our Enlightened London and out of debates about conservation.

... and while we're at it, let's put a good deal of the blame for the appallingly sorry state of the modern-day Acropolis where it belongs.... two thousand years of deliberate suppression and defacement of what were seen as Embarrassing Symbols of a Former Paganism by Orthodox Christianity, and a century or more of neglect and incompetence by modern Gr governments, who have proved themselves as good at preserving heritage as they are at managing the public finances.

Perhaps you need to distance your personal prejudices, against the student who protest, from the matter at hand.

I pray your disregard for property is not mirrored by those who hold yours. What is the difference between property belonging to individuals and property belonging to a group or a nation? No one doubts where the frieze marbles originated, what they symbolized. The Greek nation were the rightful custodians for over twenty three Centuries. Why should they now be denied them, these past few centuries, because they are suddenly labelled part of an 'Enlightenment' for the new west? They were revered before Elgin's 'discovery'!

As for your opinions on whether Greece of today can care for them, they are unfounded.

[ZoC]

The slogan “Bring them Back” echoed all over the British Museum!

it'll take more than a protest by the hair bear bunch to recover your lost marbles, yialoser...

[kurupetos]

Bring them to Cyprus, because Kalamaraes are not Greeks. We, the GCs, are the real decedents of the ancient Greeks!

[lola-tulip]

We forget that the Ancients decided not to rebuild their temples once barbarians had damaged them. This serving as a reminder of the negativity of such uncultured peoples.

Do the British public forever want to be viewed as the barbarians that stripped the Parthenon of the few remaining vestiges of its glory?

[kurupetos]

We forget that the Ancients decided not to rebuild their temples once barbarians had damaged them. This serving as a reminder of the negativity of such uncultured peoples.

Do the British public forever want to be viewed as the barbarians that stripped the Parthenon of the few remaining vestiges of its glory?

Non-Greeks are barbarians. Therefore what the Brits think is unimportant.