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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Kenya Soldiers Looted During Mall Attack
yahoo.com
October 29, 2013
Two Kenyan soldiers were sacked for stealing items during the deadly siege last month of Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, Kenya’s military chief said Tuesday.
Gen. Julius Karangi, chief of Kenya’s military, identified the sacked soldiers as Victor Otieno and Victor Ashiundu and said they were in detention pending formal charges.
He said the two soldiers were found with mobile phones, cameras and chargers that were stolen from the mall during the siege.
This article was posted: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 10:27 am
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Kenya Soldiers Looted During Mall Attack
Friday, June 21, 2013
Putin dismisses reports of spat with Merkel over looted art
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R) and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, June 21, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk
Putin dismisses reports of spat with Merkel over looted art
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
"Looted" art returned to Cambodia
Cambodian officials hailed the return of the sandstone sculptures as “historic”
Two 10th Century Khmer statues, believed to have been looted from a temple in Cambodia decades ago, have been sent back from the United States.
The life-size sculptures, known as the “kneeling attendants”, had been displayed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for nearly 20 years.
The museum pledged to return the artefacts after evidence suggested they had been illegally exported.
A ceremony was held at Phnom Penh airport to welcome them back.
Cambodian officials hailed the return journey of the sandstone sculptures as a “historic” moment for the country.
Buddhist monks chanted blessings during the ceremony, which was attended by government officials as well as executives from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The statues are believed to have been stolen from the Koh Ker temple 80km (50 miles) north-east of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex in the early 1970s at the height of the country’s civil war.
The museum announced its decision to return the statues in May after extensive consultations with the Cambodian authorities.
“The museum is committed to applying rigorous provenance standards not only to new acquisitions, but to the study of works long in its collections in an ongoing effort to learn as much as possible about ownership history,” museum director Thomas P Campbell said in a statement at the time.
The Cambodian government is also pursuing other artefacts it believes were illegally removed the country in recent decades.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned artefacts to Phnom Penh before – in 1997 it sent back a 10th Century Shiva’s head it had been given.
"Looted" art returned to Cambodia