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===Reburial of excavated human remains=== In 2021, a wreath was placed by the Saint Helena's Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on the door of the Pipe Store in [[Jamestown, Saint Helena|Jamestown]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sainthelenaisland.info/slavetrade.htm#slavegraves|title=Attacking the Slave Trade on Saint Helena Island Info: About St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean|website=sainthelenaisland.info}}</ref> The Pipe Store is a building where the remains of some 325 people, men, women, and children disinterred during [[Saint Helena Airport|airport construction]] were being stored pending reburial since 2008. The remains belonged to liberated Africans who had been rescued by the [[Royal Navy]]'s [[West Africa Squadron]] during the suppression of the [[Atlantic slave trade]] and brought to Saint Helena.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/news/press-releases/liberty-bound-slavery-and-st-helena|title=Liberty bound: Slavery and St Helena|website=National Museums Liverpool}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8294.html|title=2012: St Helena dig {{pipe}} News and features {{pipe}} University of Bristol|first=University of|last=Bristol|website=www.bristol.ac.uk}}</ref>
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