Overnight Tuesday, in Boston, a statue of Christopher Columbus was beheaded, in the park named after him.
- Bristol: slave trader Edward ColstonOn Sunday, in England's southwestern port of Bristol, protesters pulled down a bronze statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston and dumped it in the local harbour.
But his name remains attached to streets and buildings in honour of his funding of local hospitals and schools for the poor, and officials fished the statue out. The Italian explorer, long hailed as the so-called discoverer of"The New World," is considered by many to have spurred years of genocide against indigenous groups in the Americas.US: Jefferson DavisOn Wednesday, a statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America during the 1861-1865 Civil War, which opposed the pro-slavery South and the abolitionist North, was toppled in Richmond, Virginia.
According to a 2016 report from the Southern Poverty Law Center , which is specialised in extremist movements and civil rights, more than 1,500 confederate symbols are still on show in public places in the United States, most in the South.The Belgian port city of Antwerp took down a statue of late King of the Belgians Leopold II on Tuesday, days after it was daubed with red paint by anti-racism protesters.
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