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Treasure Hunters: Searching for Cambodia’s Stolen Antiquities | Foreign Correspondent

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2024 ж. 17 Мам.
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It’s been called the biggest art theft in history - thousands of statues stolen from temples across Cambodia and sold to private collectors and international museums, including here in Australia.
Now a team of art sleuths, on behalf of the Cambodian Government, are on a mission to bring home the country’s cultural heritage.
In this episode of Foreign Correspondent, the inside story of how Cambodia’s stolen antiquities are being tracked and returned in a global treasure hunt.
South-East Asia correspondent Mazoe Ford travels with the restitution team as they journey across the country and over borders to identify, trace and reclaim Cambodia’s missing treasures.
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  • I visited Cambodia for the first time recently. Such a beautiful country with kind people. I appreciate Brad Gordon and the team. I appreciate museums and countries around the world who recognize their wrong doing and return these precious antiquities. Please continue to return these historical artifacts. I hope to return to visit Cambodia again one day.

    @user-eh2hj8bx6i@user-eh2hj8bx6i9 ай бұрын

    • Thanks you for your support I appreciate fine those people who've bought and the people who stealing from Cambodia artifacts put them in jail for life. 😢😢😢.

      @juix0666@juix06669 ай бұрын

    • Thanks for visited my beautiful country🙏🇰🇭

      @TheanySL@TheanySL9 ай бұрын

    • Welcome🙏❤️

      @Santepheapkhmer@Santepheapkhmer9 ай бұрын

    • As Khmer ppl, I’m really appreciated For your kind and for your teaching to Khmer ppl who escaped from civil war, invading war from Thailand &Vietnam 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💐💐💐💐❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️

      @ThePrahok884@ThePrahok8848 ай бұрын

    • Not all people is kind

      @navajo6931@navajo69318 ай бұрын

  • As an Indonesian, we both rich in cultures, and I can understand the pain when the arts made by our greatest empires stolen like that. Good job for bringing back the national treasure.

    @tirta.yansen@tirta.yansen9 ай бұрын

    • There're still tons of our countries (both Cambodia and Indonesia) antiques that were stolen during the colonial period

      @sereyroth8824@sereyroth88249 ай бұрын

    • @@sereyroth8824 yup, it's a shame, it is what it is

      @tirta.yansen@tirta.yansen9 ай бұрын

    • Exactly ❤❤❤

      @ThePrahok884@ThePrahok8848 ай бұрын

    • It's java not Indonesia

      @ideaoneminute@ideaoneminute8 ай бұрын

    • You right that what I study from history. Welcome to Cambodia

      @MeiMei-ce1mi@MeiMei-ce1mi7 ай бұрын

  • As Cambodian I very thankful for those who involved with this work to return all statues to where they belong to. Thank you 🙏🇰🇭❤️

    @Nomad35292@Nomad352929 ай бұрын

    • If they found the Bhuda, they change that into Bronze not Original Gold.

      @ambrosiokurdaba751@ambrosiokurdaba7518 ай бұрын

  • Lot's of love to cambodia from Nepal...thank u for preserving our Hindu and Buddhist cultural heritage...🙏♥️😇🇳🇵🇳🇵

    @Rihan_jung_Xettriya@Rihan_jung_Xettriya9 ай бұрын

    • One day you will realize that the original of the Buddhist from.

      @sovanneysath5077@sovanneysath50772 ай бұрын

    • @@sovanneysath5077 what do u mean ..😐

      @Rihan_jung_Xettriya@Rihan_jung_Xettriya2 ай бұрын

  • This video is underrated Cambodian people should watch and thankful for the amount of work you guys put in and thank you for making anything like this happen.

    @therealflame1605@therealflame16059 ай бұрын

    • បាទ❤

      @user-vt4de3bg8d@user-vt4de3bg8d7 ай бұрын

    • Nowadays, in Cambodia there is a propaganda to distract people from this and social issues. There’s only faking arguments, created events to attract people attention. So most people do not care about this

      @Mykie890@Mykie8904 ай бұрын

  • Ancient treasures of Cambodia are priceless,they belong to Cambodia and they are the national symbols of Cambodia. Countries around the that had looted these precious antiquities or however they had obtained them,must return them to the rightful owner,thank you for doing the right thing for Cambodia

    @mckoylach1622@mckoylach16229 ай бұрын

  • Thank you Australia for these artifacts back to Cambodia where they are belongs. Thank you kindly for restoring our ancestors through arts. These are Cambodian hearts and soul of the Khmer people.

    @Lillylim1@Lillylim15 ай бұрын

  • Thank you Australia for returning them to Cambodia, we are the good partnership since long time ago. I love you Australia. From Cambodia ❤

    @ennimit9503@ennimit95039 ай бұрын

  • As a Cambodian who resides in Australia, I am so thankful that this kind of investigation happen at this present time. Obviously, seeing these statues and artefacts which have been written in a wrong history as it belongs to Thailand/Vietnam in the National Gallery, does impact a lot on the people of Cambodia and this is what we as Cambodians could not tell the world that those are ours.

    @pheaktranhem2556@pheaktranhem25569 ай бұрын

  • Thank you Brad Gordon and team for recovering those antiques back to Cambodia. For Cambodian, it feels like being reincarnated seeing these statues return.

    @sereyvuthmeansephan819@sereyvuthmeansephan8198 ай бұрын

  • On behalf of Cambodians, I appreciate your hard work Grad Gordon and the team to bring our ancient statues back to their home in Cambodia. I hope this video should translate to Cambodian so they can understand this amazing video. Arkoun, Thankful 🙏💕

    @empireofwildlife@empireofwildlife9 ай бұрын

  • Cambodian peoples Thank you to Australia for return this bronze statues back to Cambodia, This mean alot to Cambodian peoples, The spirits of our Ancesters, Brad and Cambodian team, Thank you so much for your hard work

    @haileyc.conner3447@haileyc.conner34479 ай бұрын

  • As an cambodian people, I am very thankful and respect to all of you that trying to share all my culture to the world 🙏

    @chhinsoriyarith8845@chhinsoriyarith88457 ай бұрын

  • I was 😭 cry after they found the statue and returned them back to our homeland, I am so proud and appreciate ur team work hard and have a amazing job ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭 god blessed u all

    @davidnhem9585@davidnhem95853 ай бұрын

  • As a Cambodian, I would like express my great sincere gratitudes to Your hard working team for helping to returning our ancestor artifacts to Cambodia, your actions is beyond my words 🙏

    @worldjourney1579@worldjourney15792 ай бұрын

  • Most antiques items were stolen and sole to Thailand and Thailand sole some statues to USA and England. Most Cambodian statues and antiques items now are in Thailand, France, England USA and many other countries.

    @starmorning6197@starmorning61979 ай бұрын

  • @as a Cambodian citizen , I do feel overwhelm and appreciate for all your hard works and efforts of Brand Gordon and his team.

    @doomino9631@doomino96319 ай бұрын

  • Our ancestors will come back home soon ! thanks you too all of your great heart and great teams

    @chietthach1389@chietthach13899 ай бұрын

  • As a cambodian raised in Australia, Hats off to Mazoe for her reporting of this story. Great research and journalism

    @vuthsim4557@vuthsim45579 ай бұрын

  • This video mean alot to the Cambodia people. We thank you! 🎉🎉❤❤

    @ravuthkeo850@ravuthkeo8509 ай бұрын

  • although I an not Cambodian but when I saw that 3 statue..tears rolled down slowly..what is this feeling?❤

    @kamalarai3172@kamalarai31728 ай бұрын

  • It is heart broken to see all the statues were stolen. Thanks for all the help

    @sophallvoek7825@sophallvoek78257 ай бұрын

  • As be half Cambodian people I would to thank you for help looking these lost statues ❤ Even it doesn’t present in my country but yet I feel gratefully to get a chance to know that a rare statues like this exist and come from my country.

    @Zinniaaa89@Zinniaaa897 ай бұрын

  • Thank you for bringing back the Khmer statues. ❤❤❤

    @TheDarren83@TheDarren839 ай бұрын

    • ❤❤❤

      @user-eg3yf1bv1t@user-eg3yf1bv1t9 ай бұрын

  • It’s kinda funny I suddenly got teary eyes upon seeing the three statues near the end. It is extremely gorgeous and im grateful it’ll be going home soon (3 yrs later).

    @sonievkay@sonievkay9 ай бұрын

  • Thank you for your project to reveal the truth of Cambodian culture ❤

    @vtp7777@vtp77777 ай бұрын

  • As a Cambodian, I appreciate your efforts to make this priceless footage 🎉

    @darithnam8234@darithnam82349 ай бұрын

  • Welcome back home our Cambodia precious status 😭😭😭❤️🇰🇭 uncountable thanks to the project team for ur hard work for preserve our heritage culture back 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.....

    @pkachhuk2179@pkachhuk21798 ай бұрын

  • Behalf of Cambodia people, we appreciate your great job on this investigation about Khmer suffering from the past. This video mean a lots to Khmer people to the world to know the truth 🙏🏾🇰🇭

    @simsodaroth3636@simsodaroth3636Ай бұрын

  • Kudos to Mr Brad and his dedicated team members... The amount of time that you guy's spent and still awesome....

    @loveempathy4920@loveempathy49209 ай бұрын

  • I am tearing while watching this as to how Cambodia had lost so many great things due to wars and the colonial.

    @emvoleak6697@emvoleak66978 ай бұрын

  • As a Cambodian, I thank you so much for bringing those statues back to Cambodia 🙏

    @sonhaseam1725@sonhaseam17258 ай бұрын

  • My respect and thankful to all of the effort to return them back to Cambodia.

    @sothonp164@sothonp1648 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much for all effort putting this video up the your channel❤ just for an update in my comment section, some of it had just return back to cambodia from united states. Thank you 🙏

    @BackHomeFromTheStates@BackHomeFromTheStates8 ай бұрын

  • Thank you everybody for helping my country I passed out my pedestal love you🇰🇭

    @emsombo@emsomboАй бұрын

  • Brad and everyone, all your hard worked have been paid off . I hope you and the Cambodian people can keep it all safe and don’t let it fall to the wrong hands , again.

    @wildwildwest1662@wildwildwest16629 ай бұрын

  • I cried after seeing the statutes, my deeply thanks to the team.

    @guysinheart4439@guysinheart44399 ай бұрын

  • Thank you 🙏 for your support Cambodia 🇰🇭 people is big thank for all support all belong to Cambodia 🙏❤️

    @josephnguyen1587@josephnguyen15879 ай бұрын

  • 🙏🙏 the team has been doing excellent work of brining Cambodian treasures back to the people of Cambodia. Thank you.

    @prichapetlueng2634@prichapetlueng26348 ай бұрын

  • Love to you all of you for this great job. Love from India🇮🇳.

    @surajbhatia69@surajbhatia699 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much for your great team work and bring back status to Cambodia. Your team is amazing

    @nthnth5238@nthnth52387 ай бұрын

  • Thank you🙏to each and Everyone for bringing Khmer statues back to their birth place { Cambodia }

    @bobbychhang1084@bobbychhang10849 ай бұрын

  • Great work by Brad Gordon and the restitution team. This is a great piece that I hope is watched by many.

    @user-le5fo5jh7h@user-le5fo5jh7h9 ай бұрын

  • This is an amazing job. Thank you for such challenging mission for Cambodia. My heart aches while I am watching the video. I hope many more antiquities would return to the Mainland in the future.

    @pheanikaleang5685@pheanikaleang56857 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much for the work you have done for Cambodia, it really means a lot to the Cambodian people.Cambodian people really appreciate what you did for us ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

    @maosovannlika2747@maosovannlika27477 ай бұрын

  • there are many In Thailand but they said those belong to them

    @beautifulnature4964@beautifulnature49649 ай бұрын

  • I also appreciate the family of Douglas Latchford doing the right thing and handing over the files.

    @user-eh2hj8bx6i@user-eh2hj8bx6i9 ай бұрын

    • They also need to return or donate the profits he made by trafficking these statues.

      @user-eh2hj8bx6i@user-eh2hj8bx6i9 ай бұрын

  • Woow I came across your video.. I am Cambodia myself.. you guys are so amazing, done an amazing job. The statues returned to their home

    @freshMila@freshMila9 ай бұрын

  • This is so well produced! Love love the professional journalism ❤

    @vitocoleone9349@vitocoleone93499 ай бұрын

  • THANK YOU ACB NEWS FOR THIS IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.

    @Sakda.168@Sakda.1687 ай бұрын

  • Thank you from Cambodian people ❤

    @channannou3211@channannou32119 ай бұрын

  • You did great job for Cambodia and the world 🙏

    @tourphotsin7387@tourphotsin73877 ай бұрын

  • Bless you're all for this kindness for Cambodia and Khmer People 😢

    @SaveSoil_@SaveSoil_9 ай бұрын

  • Excellent report - let's trust this is the point in history that many more stolen items will be returned to their homeland.

    @LINZpassionzandtravelz@LINZpassionzandtravelz9 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much for this amazing team for helping return those statues to its place 🙏🙏 well done 🎉👏🏻

    @joebeenkim9355@joebeenkim93559 ай бұрын

  • I don't know why but I also had to cry during the documentary. Thank you team

    @lovestruckfm@lovestruckfm26 күн бұрын

  • Million thank to all of you for returning these statues to Khmer people and I am watching and cried to see.

    @mrkosorloun4182@mrkosorloun41829 ай бұрын

  • As Cambodian, Thank you so much.

    @sereypornke1584@sereypornke15847 ай бұрын

  • Nice work Brad and team. It's like finding a needle in a haystack, but well worth it. I remember visiting Angkor Wat after the war, and there were so many of those similar statues inside the temples!

    @kpnhim@kpnhim9 ай бұрын

  • First of all,thanks to all of those who involved and helped hunt for the Cambodian’s stolen antiquities and return them back to Cambodia. However,on the other hand,those who had committed these crimes must be prosecuted. Thanks again for the teams efforts and god bless you all

    @mckoylach1622@mckoylach16229 ай бұрын

    • the dudes that admitted stealing some of them were right there being interviewed...were they arrested?...i didnt see any police.

      @briancaldwell6799@briancaldwell67999 ай бұрын

    • One negative thing I can see about threatening with arrests is that wouldn't that prevent the criminals coming forward or being honest? You might miss out on returning some of these items that way.

      @Ninjaguiden89@Ninjaguiden899 ай бұрын

  • Amazing work guys. This is a great video! Priceless antique

    @ProsperityPhrases@ProsperityPhrases9 ай бұрын

  • Thank good-heart foriegners for helping Cambodian people to get back our treasures. 🙏

    @user-uy8hi8oo1s@user-uy8hi8oo1s3 ай бұрын

  • I am extremely thankful for your hard work to the team 🙏🏻❤

    @pipipor9644@pipipor96449 ай бұрын

  • Thank you all for your kindness in helping these statues back to Cambodia.

    @ongv2491@ongv24914 ай бұрын

  • Great documentary. Such a hardworking project to the team who has sacrificed for this returning of artefacts.

    @lybunsamneang9421@lybunsamneang94219 ай бұрын

  • Thanks and very appreciate for your kindness and this project.

    @Jotanaram@Jotanaram9 ай бұрын

  • Absolutely excellent team works from everyone involved. Thanks so much for the Cambodian team. We need to get all back home.

    @camae62@camae624 ай бұрын

  • That is so sweet of you guys! thank you!

    @Sisuuuuuuu@Sisuuuuuuu7 ай бұрын

  • excellent work, thanks you🙏

    @jondoe7740@jondoe77409 ай бұрын

  • You Sir are an amazing person, Thanks for what you have done and the team. Great job!

    @Jerry-Cam@Jerry-Cam9 ай бұрын

  • Thank for sharing ❤

    @Kosalsom@Kosalsom8 ай бұрын

  • Thanks for this episode.

    @kolapyellow7631@kolapyellow76319 ай бұрын

  • This was excellent journalism. Well done ABC Australia.

    @hizhole@hizhole9 ай бұрын

  • Good job and keep doing your work.

    @Yovo555@Yovo5559 ай бұрын

  • Thank u sooooo much for bring them back I feel so emotional 😢

    @vichetthim5223@vichetthim5223Ай бұрын

  • ❤❤ Thank you 🙏 That you make videos for Cambodia ❤

    @g-vann541@g-vann5419 ай бұрын

  • thank you 🙏

    @saroth369@saroth3699 ай бұрын

  • I feel cry and all will be back, thanks 😢

    @khatsong7200@khatsong72008 ай бұрын

  • Very well presented - hopefully more & more pieces are returned 🙏

    @antruok4950@antruok49508 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much to all your crews.😊

    @vireakchanboth6331@vireakchanboth63315 ай бұрын

  • Amazing team thank you

    @freshMila@freshMila9 ай бұрын

  • Amazing team❤😊

    @LenyR0SE@LenyR0SE8 ай бұрын

  • Thank you with a tear drop😍

    @kimsrengros@kimsrengros9 ай бұрын

  • Thank you brad and team 🙏

    @jerryroller8210@jerryroller82108 ай бұрын

  • Thanks Brad!!!

    @soloy1610@soloy16109 ай бұрын

  • I Love this document , thank so much

    @aboutknowledge9254@aboutknowledge92548 ай бұрын

  • I am so emotional to hear that. And I am so proud of my country.

    @KienSeyha@KienSeyha9 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much 🙏🙏

    @sanmonypich@sanmonypich8 ай бұрын

  • We love you Australia ! And uSA!

    @paulc3692@paulc36928 ай бұрын

  • Amazing work by the investigators. I’m so grateful for the return of our gods. 🙏🙏🙏

    @kirichhoueng880@kirichhoueng8808 ай бұрын

  • Thank you very much ❤

    @Winny_1213@Winny_12138 ай бұрын

  • ❤អបអរសាទរ well done to Brad and the research team tremendous job❤ hopefully you and team able to find more missing arts / statues in years to come.❤

    @rimloch3919@rimloch39199 ай бұрын

  • I'm crying while watching 😢

    @DaroJBVlogger@DaroJBVlogger8 ай бұрын

  • Thanks for sharing 😍

    @tourwithfrendy6087@tourwithfrendy60877 ай бұрын

  • Thank you for sharing about khmer or Cambodia culture 🙏

    @seyhak1885@seyhak18859 ай бұрын

  • In the name of Cambodian, I am thankful and appreciate you that give us the amazing status back to our country 🙏🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖💖💖

    @sophearith6371@sophearith63719 ай бұрын

  • Now it's also time for the British Museum to return all their stolen art-works to their original owners! With all the technology available today, reasonable facsimiles could be made of stolen items sitting in museums (and private collections), enabling the return of many of the original artifacts to their countries where they were stolen from!

    @stevie-ray2020@stevie-ray20209 ай бұрын

  • Thank you, ABCNews in-depth 🙏

    @SanoRay@SanoRay9 ай бұрын

  • Am so proud of the team's that accomplish such amazing investigations by bringing back khmer ancient statues/souls to the original place 🙏🙏🙏pls have them safe guards and trust no one because now the Vietnamese that speak Khmer is controlling the whole country ! Thank you everyone you all the best. 🎉🍒🙏🍒🎉

    @un7796@un77967 ай бұрын

  • Amazing culture of Cambodia 🇰🇭

    @lee7133@lee71339 ай бұрын
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