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Most likely a perfect match. you know, like a foot matches a piece thats in a major museum. thats exactly what happened with these huge warrior statues, the teams biggest success to date. the tops of the statues were once on display in the us, but it was the perfect match of their feet left behind in cambodia that proved theyd been stolen. theyre now reunited, the pride of cambodias national museum. the cambodian authorities are now on the hunt for more treasure. theyre tracing the looters who o...

Most likely a perfect match. you know, like a foot matches a piece thats in a major museum. thats exactly what happened with these huge warrior statues, the teams biggest success to date. the tops of the statues were once on display in the us, but it was the perfect match of their feet left behind in cambodia that proved theyd been stolen. theyre now reunited, the pride of cambodias national museum. the cambodian authorities are now on the hunt for more treasure. theyre tracing the looters who o...

Story from 1988. what was your gut reaction to it? amazing that the bbc had picked up on this in �*88. we need to find this. this needs to come home. its very important. so, we have the archival photographs from 1936, when the french inventoried it, and it was taken to the conservatory. the conservatory is a secret warehouse just outside angkor wat where statues are still stored for safekeeping today. thats just incredible. i mean, weve got an elephant, weve got a lion dog, weve got lintels fr...

Lawyer brad gordon. were tracking about 100 museums, and so weve compiled, based on publicly available information, weve compiled lots of information about cambodian pieces that are out there, so theres a couple of thousands pieces we are tracking. we know that these statues were taken out of the ground, and we know the cambodian government didnt give permission, so were now asking the museums and private collectors, "prove to us that you have a right to have these pieces." were doing targeted e...

Retrieving the statues would look good politically for the cambodian government ahead of an election year in 2023. prime minister hun sen has been in power for three decades. most of his rivals are in prison or in exile. i sat down with the cambodian minister of culture and fine arts. this week, she wrote to the uk government to demand their assistance. minister, some people will say your country has problems with corruption. it has a worsening human rights record. why should the uk authorities ...

Tell me one country dont have any corruption. i dont defend that. but dont confuse the corruption with something else. the statue belongs to us, belong to cambodian people. we are driving to a village that lies in the shadows of the scene of industrial scale looting. up here is the way that go to the market in the... satia was born here and comes from a family of looters who struggled to survive under the khmer rouge. my older generation, my grandfather, my father, they already did that, they do...

The statue for here, for this environment, for this temple, for these people. i think its important that the statues are coming back, to our country, our people, because people need to. . .to pray. they pray. its a living culture, its a living god. hello there. were going to have all sorts of weather thrown at us really over the week ahead. the start of the weekend was a sunny one with temperatures generally into the low 20s.

Satia now works as a key member in the cambodian investigative team, fighting for the return of the countrys antiquities. i grew up in this village next to the temple. some of the older generation, theyjust to see the gods in the temple. so i want them to see that again. i want them to see the beautiful temple with the god, with the statue. so i think it is my obligation as a younger generation to bring those gods back home. in cambodias capital, phnom penh, this dance was created to welcome som...

We know that its most likely a perfect match. you know, like a foot matches a piece thats in a major museum. thats exactly what happened with these huge warrior statues, the teams biggest success to date. the tops of the statues were once on display in the us but it was the perfect match of their feet left behind in cambodia that proved theyd been stolen. they are now reunited, the pride of cambodias national museum. the cambodian authorities are now on the hunt for more treasure. theyre tracing...

Sold for £209,000. but where the statues originally stolen? the cameroonian royal family tried to stop the sale, but failed. now, brad is in london. the cambodian authorities are writing to major museums and the british government for help. i showed him the newsnight story from 1988. what was your gut reaction to it? amazing that the bbc had picked up on this in �*88. we need to find this. this needs to come home. its very important. so, we have the archival photographs from 1936, when the fr...