As Cambodia Erupts in Protest, a Stolen Buddhist Relic Ignites Anger
…cover. (In the same month that the relics were stolen, Sotheby’s auction house in New York agreed to return a statue to Cambodia that first disappeared in the 1970s amid civil war.) Eav Chamroeurn, the provincial police chief in the area, declined to go into detail about the case. “We are continuing our investigation, but we cannot tell the result of it,” he said. He wouldn’t make any guarantees, and called the job a difficult task. He added that…
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