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NEW YORK The United States handed back more than a dozen valuable antiquities to Cambodia, a prosecutor said, after they were plundered and illegally trafficked, ending up in a prestigious New York museum.They were originally plundered by prolific antiquities trafficker Douglas Latchford who in 2019 was charged with operating a major network that stole treasures from
Thousands of antiques were looted from Cambodia as it was ravaged by civil wars and genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s - Click the link for more details.
The emergence of ultranationalist sentiment in Cambodia following the box-office success of the Thai period romcom Love Destiny, or Bupphesanniwas 2, is very unfortunate.