Why Is the Ithiopian Tabot Not Being Returned?

These tabots are nothing for the british, or for any one else, but for the etiopians there are as spiritual relics. The reverend describes a kind of cultural domino theory. Hand over the ethiopian tablets and it's gone with the ben in bronzes, gone with the parthonon marbles. Museum goers might even notice that they're missing. Of course, those artifacts are on display. The tablets aren't, and never will be. No one knows they are there, and absolutely no one would miss them.