Chile Officials Call for Easter Island Moai Statues’ Return From British Museum | Latin Post [Video]

Officials from Chile, along with campaigners and activists, are calling on the British Museum to return two Moai statues to Easter Island after the museum’s Instagram page was bombarded with calls to return these two statues.

The calls were echoed by Chilean president Gabriel Boric, as well as several high-profile Chilean influencers, including Mike Milfort, as they joined the calls for the Moai statues’ return to Chile on social media.

Yahoo! News reported that the British Museum has two Moai statues on display. They are the Hoa Hakananai’a, the large stone statue, and a smaller stone statue called the Moai Hava. These statues were taken from Easter Island, which is part of Chile, by British surveyors in 1868. Activists claim that these two statues were stolen by the British.

The British Museum, meanwhile, defended its continued possession of the two Moai statues, with Connor Watson, a senior press officer for the British Museum, saying …