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Tell me one country don't have any corruption. i don't defend that. but don't 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 don't have choice. at that time, it's a civil war in cambodia. like, if you are starving, then find...

The statue for here, for this environment, for this temple, for these people. i think it's important that the statues are coming back, to our country, our people, because people need to. . .to pray. they pray. it's a living culture, it's a living god. hello there. we're 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 country's 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 cambodia's capital, phnom penh, this dance was created to welcome some beloved statues that were returned last year. these dancers are hoping they'll have good reason ...

We know that it's most likely a perfect match. you know, like a foot matches a piece that's in a major museum. that's exactly what happened with these huge warrior statues, the team's 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 they'd been stolen. they are now reunited, the pride of cambodia's national museum. the cambodian authorities are now on the hunt for more treasure. they're tracing the looters who originally dug up the antiquities. we have a whole network of informants who...

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. it's 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 j...