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CAMBODIA CALLS FOR RETURN OF LOOTED STATUES

The Cambodian government is urging two UK museums to return artefacts it says were looted from their country several decades ago. In a letter addressed to her British counterpart Nadine Dorries, Cambodia’s culture minister, Phoeurng Sackona, claims that the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum are in possession of

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