is only the statue, but the spirit of ancestor. sopheap meas is an archaeologist with the cambodian ministry of culture. when you saw the statue that s broken into pieces, how did you feel physically when you see something like that? ifeel pain, ifeel sad. ijust.sometimes ijust don t want to see it, too much to tolerate in the feeling, you know? i just don t want to see something like that. itjust comes.it hurts me a lot. sometimes i heard people talk how they destroyed the temple. ijust feel like, oh, my god, that is so painful to hear. this is very beautiful male statue. he have four arms. sopheap is trying to make
where this has gone. the same thing has happened in thousands of temples, including this one, 100km to the east of angkor wat. for many cambodians, the missing statues are thought to have souls. they re notjust stone, are they, or bronze? they are definitely not just the stone for us. we never think this is only the statue, but the spirit of ancestor. sopheap meas is an archaeologist with the cambodian ministry of culture. when you saw the statue that s broken into pieces, how did you feel physically when you see something like that? ifeel pain, ifeel sad. ijust.sometimes ijust don t want to see it, too much to tolerate in the feeling, you know? i just don t want to see something like that. itjust comes.it hurts me a lot. sometimes i heard people talk
i mean, you canjust imagine a looter would cut that, take it, smuggle it across a border, probably into thailand, and then on into some auction house. we simply don t know where this has gone. the same thing has happened in thousands of temples, including this one, 100km to the east of angkor wat. for many cambodians, the missing statues are thought to have souls. they re notjust stone, are they, or bronze? they are definitely not just the stone for us. we never think this is only the statue, but the spirit of ancestor. sopheap meas is an archaeologist with the cambodian ministry of culture. when you saw the statue that s broken into pieces, how did you feel physically when you see something like that? ifeel pain, ifeel sad.