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The Krishna palister once stood along the doorframe of the most important monument to the Khmer dynasty in Thailand
The artefacts belonged to the late collector George Lindemann and were turned over to authorities voluntarily by his family
Cambodian government says stone artefacts kept at San Francisco home of billionaire Lindemann family match those looted from sacred site
Irish artist Matt Loughrey’s reworked pictures of people murdered in Cambodia’s Killing Fields, published by Vice, may have broken country’s Archives Act
Cambodian officials believe the last two looted works out of seven are in Denver Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art
An attempt to smuggle it was thwarted in the US
“The pillage of such items from Cambodia is an emergency”
Import restrictions are imposed on Khmer kingdoms artefacts
Government ministers quarrel over paperwork, but also over the care and safety of 'sacred and symbolic' treasures
Warfare, politics, the art trade and unwise conservation are damaging the abandoned capital