Getty protest demands pages be returned to Armenia
Associated Press Saturday, November 19, 2011
About 30 protesters stood outside the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los
Angeles demanding the return of pages ripped from a sacred handwritten
Armenian book from the 13th century.
The Los Angeles Times () says protesters Saturday
held signs that read “Shame on Getty” and “Our history is not for
sale.”
A U.S. Armenian church is suing the Getty and seeking to eventually
return the pages to be reunited with the rest of the sacred manuscript
in Yerevan, Armenia.
The lawsuit says the pages went missing in the late 1940s.
Getty officials say they were legally acquired in 1994 from an
anonymous private collector, and museum attorneys say the statute of
limitations for a lawsuit has expired.
But a judge ruled earlier this month that the lawsuit can go forward.
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