Antiquities returned to Cambodia

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Kim O'Hara
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Antiquities returned to Cambodia

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The United States will return 30 looted antiquities to Cambodia, including bronze and stone statues of Buddhist and Hindu deities carved more than 1,000 years ago.

The country's archaeological sites — including Koh Ker, a capital of the ancient Khmer empire — suffered widespread looting in civil conflicts between the 1960s and 1990s. Cambodia's government has since sought to have stolen antiquities returned.

Damian Williams, the top US federal prosecutor in Manhattan, said the items being returned were sold to Western buyers by Douglas Latchford, a Bangkok dealer who created fake documents to conceal looting and smuggling. US prosecutors had charged Mr Latchford in relation to the looting of artefacts, before his death in 2020 ...
:reading: and some pics of Buddhist and Hindu sculptures - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-09/ ... /101313468

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