France has returned three colonial-era human skulls to Madagascar after more than a century, in a symbolic gesture aimed at confronting its brutal colonial past. The remains, believed to include King Toera of the Sakalava people and two others, were looted in the late 19th century and kept for decades at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Their return marks the first restitution under a 2023 French law that allows the repatriation of human remains from public collections. Madagascar hailed the move as a historic moment, though critics insist restitution without apology or reparations remains incomplete.