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Oxford, Jun 9 (EFE/EPA).- Municipalities in England and Wales governed by the main opposition Labor Party will consider removing statues of historical figures involved in slavery and colonialism, the party said Tuesday.The move follows an incident Sunday in the southwestern port city of Bristol, where Black Lives Matter protesters pulled down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and dumped it into the harbor.The United Kingdom is among the many countries around the world that have seen demonstrations in solidarity with the mass mobilization in the United States sparked by the May 25 death of African American George Floyd at the hands of police. (Camera: WILL OLIVER). SHOT LIST: BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTERS GATHER IN FRONT OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S ORIEL COLLEGE IN OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM, TO DEMAND THE REMOVAL OF A MONUMENT TO COLONIALIST CECIL RHODES.

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