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Tess Davis players have demonstrated they are committed to righting past wrongs. Hopefully they will prove equally committed to preventing such wrongs in the first place, for what happened in Cambodia four decades ago, is happening now again in the ‘cradle of civilization’. Masterpieces from Iraq and Syria are now crossing borders, although this time into Lebanon or Turkey. What happens next is largely up to us. From there will they be stopped at the border? Or will they too be slapped with a plausible back-story and laundered into respectable auction houses, art galleries, private collections, or even museums? Or will someone – be it a border agent or an art curator – notice the ‘red flags’ and do the right thing? Only time will tell, but hopefully, this time, it will not take 40 years. Notes 1. In an often repeated – if never explained figure – the Federal Bureau of Investigation cites ‘losses running as high as $6 billion annually from the illicit trade in cultural property. Despite this claim, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) doubts ‘there will ever be any accurate statistics’, given the inherent difficulties in quantifying and qualifying it. 2. UNESCO, United Nations Security Council. 2015. Resolution no. 2199, ‘Letter to Ministers responsible for relations with UNESCO’, 3 August 2015. URL: < http://unesdoc. unesco.org/images/0023/002321/232164e.pdf > [last accessed 29 October 2015]. 3. See United States District Court Southern District of New York. 2012. ‘Complaint at 2 “United States of America vs. a 10 th Century Cambodian Sculpture, Currently Located at Sotheby’s in New York, New York”’, No. 12. United States District Court Southern District of New York. 4. See United States District Court Southern District of New York. 2012. ‘Amended Complaint at 8 and 9, “United States of America vs. A 10 th Century Cambodian Sculpture, Currently Located at Sotheby’s in New York, New York”’, No. 12. 5. See Tom Mashberg article, ‘Cambodia Presses US Museums to Relinquish Antiquities’. In The New York Times, 15 May 2013. URL: < http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/ arts/design/cambodia-presses-us-museums-to-return-antiquities.html > [accessed 29 September 2015]. 6. For example, in 2012, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court convicted former governor Lay Vireak and general Khuon Roeun to 12 and 16 years in jail respectively after they were caught trafficking drugs, arms, and a 12 th century Angkorian bronze artifact. See Buth Reaksmey Kongkea, ‘Ex-Governor Gets 12 Years in Jail’. In Phnom Penh Post, 4 July 2012. URL: < http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-governorgets-12-years-jail >[accessed 29 September 2015]. 7. See United States District Court Southern District of New York. 2012. ‘Complaint at 13, “United States of America vs. a 10 th Century Cambodian Sculpture, Currently Located at Sotheby’s in New York, New York”’, No. 12. 8. See United States District Court, Southern District of New York. 2012. ‘Complaint at 15, “United States of America vs. a 10 th Century Cambodian Sculpture, Currently Located at Sotheby’s in New York, New York”’, No. 12. 9. See Sotheby’s ‘Sold Lot’ Archive. URL: < http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/lotsarchive.html > [accessed 29 September 2015]. 102
Illicit Antiquities in Cambodia References Askerud, Pernille and Étienne Clément. 1997. Preventing the Illicit Traffic in Cultural Property: A Resource Handbook for the Implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention (Paris: UNESCO). Blumenthal, Ralph and Mashberg, Tom. 2012. ‘Officials Are Set to Seize Antiquity’. In The New York Times, 4 April 2012. URL: < http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/ arts/design/ancient-cambodian-statue-is-seized-from-sothebys.html > [accessed 29 September 2015]. Blumenthal, Ralph and Tom Mashberg. 2013. ‘Disputed Statue to Be Returned to Cambodia’. In The New York Times, 12 December 2013. URL: < http://www. nytimes.com/2013/12/13/arts/design/disputed-statue-to-be-returned-to-cambodia. html > [accessed 29 September 2015]. Blumenthal, Ralph and Mashberg, Tom. 2012. ‘Mythic Warrior Is Captive in Global Art Conflict’. In The New York Times, 28 February 2012. URL: < http://www.nytimes. com/2012/02/29/arts/design/sothebys-caught-in-dispute-over-prized-cambodianstatue.html?_r=0 > [last accessed on 29 October 2015]. Brodie, Neil and Doole Jenny. ‘The Asian Art Affair: US Art Museum Collections of Asian Art and Archaeology’. In Material Engagements Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew, edited by Neil Brodie and C. Hills (Cambridge: McDonald Institute). Felch, Jason. 2013. ‘Metropolitan Museum says it will return Cambodian statues’. In LA Times, 3 May 2013. URL: < http://articles.latimes.com/2013/ may/03/entertainment/la-et-cm-metropolitan-museum-returns-cambodianstatues-20130503 > [accessed 29 September 2015]. Giteau, Madeleine. 1966. ‘Khmer Sculpture and the Angkor Civilization’ (reviewed by John Lowry). In Oriental Art, 12(3). ICOM. 1997. ‘One Hundred Missing Objects Series,” URL: < http://archives.icom. museum/100objects.html > [accessed 29 September 2015]. Johnson, Boris. 2015. ‘Sign Me Up to Fight Islamic State’s Demolition of the Past’. In The Telegraph, 15 March 2015. URL: < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ islamic-state/11473832/Sign-me-up-to-fight-Islamic-States-demolition-of-the-past. html > [accessed 29 September 2015] Kumar, Vijay. 2015. ‘How India-US MOU Can Bring Back Art Loot’, Times of India, 21 January 2015 URL: < http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article. aspx?eid=31807&articlexml=AGENDA-FOR-OBAMA-How-India-US-MOU-can- 21012015006018&Mode=1 > [accessed 29 September 2015]. Mackenzie, Simon and Davis, Tess. 2014. ‘Temple Looting in Cambodia Anatomy of a Statue Trafficking Network’. In British Journal of Criminology 54, pp. 722–740. Mackenzie, Simon and Davis, Tess. 2015. ‘Crime and Conflict: Temple Looting in Cambodia’. In Cultural Property Crimes: An Overview and Analysis on Contemporary Perspectives and Trends, edited by Joris Kila and Marc Balcells (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 292–306. Mashberg, Tom. 2013. ‘Cambodia Presses US Museums to Relinquish Antiquities’. In The New York Times, 15 May 2013. URL: < http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/ arts/design/cambodia-presses-us-museums-to-return-antiquities.html > [accessed 29 September 2015]. Mashberg, Tom and Blumenthal, Ralph. 2014. ‘Christie’s to Return Cambodian Statue’. In The New York Times, 6 May 2014. URL: < http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/arts/ 103
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