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Reclaim stolen statues. it's a mammoth task. they are tracing the histories of objects across hundreds of museums and private collections, from sydney to san francisco. leading the team is american lawyer brad gordon. we are tracking about 100 museums and so we've compiled, based on publicly available information, we've compiled lots of information about cambodian pieces that are out there, so there are about a couple of thousands pieces we are tracking. we know that these statues were ta ken out of the ground, and we know the cambodian government didn't give permission, so we're now asking th...

Completely removed by looters and we simply don't know where it's gone. i mean, look at these bits. the head's been taken off, a hands been taken off, fingers are gone. on this one, i mean, it's just been lopped off right at the top. 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....