Social Media Activists Demand The Return Of Stolen Statues | Looted (Part 1/2)
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Published 2022-10-29
In India, an already well-established group of online sleuths has put pressure on the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to return an invaluable bronze statue to a temple in Tamil Nadu. It was believed to be stolen since the 1950s. A British auctioneer in London attempts to sell a highly contentious silver flask taken from China. And a growing group of Nepali activists are pushing to make themselves heard on the world stage, with demands on Twitter to stop the sale of stolen Nepali artefacts in France.
Will the Nepal campaign go viral? Will the Indian activists gather enough evidence to start an investigation into religious statue sitting at the museum in Oxford? And will China step in to prevent the sale of a valuable piece at an auction in London?
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About the show: Countless priceless artefacts have been looted from Asia. A new generation of online sleuths are fighting to prove that they were stolen and reclaim what they believe is rightfully theirs.
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All Comments (21)
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The idea of creating REPLICAS in exchange for the original is a FANTASTIC idea and effort. Would live to see this Museum when you open it. My Aasirvadams to you and your efforts
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Spread to social media so that all jewels and artifacts from Cambodia return to its home too.
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Many Ancient Arts and Artifacts from India has been looted, plundered etc by East India Company aka United Kingdom it is been in custody of British Museum also some have ended up in USA, EU too.
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The auctioneer's logic is flawed. Have cultural and historical artefacts spread all over? As if they were all spread in museums when he knows private collectors are buyers too. What happens to those pieces? Are they benefitting lots of people educationally? They belong to their country of origin and if museums want to exhibit pieces they can have a formal and legal arrangement done up with China. Don't go and loot and say it belongs to you - there's no finder's keepers in operation here. Thievery is thievery, period. And on that score, it's really poor showing on the part of the wealthy to buy stolen artefacts. Why? Can't they afford to commission an original work like the ancient Emperors actually did? Crass.
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I am always upset whenever I visit a museum in the west for British Museum, Louver, etc. There are countless stolen treasures!
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I live in North Carolina and I am beyond certain that many pieces of Thai and Cambodian Khmer antiquities that are in the permanent collection of the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have dubious provenances and were in all likelihood illegally looted. The same can be said of their equally vast holdings of ancient Bhuddist antiquities from Gandhara in Pakistan.
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One of the best documentaries. Great job on a great cause. 👍
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HERITAGE V.S. ANTIQUE 2 words significantly different from the genuine owners and those who assumes owning it . For heritage it implies the imbedded identity , its culture & past WITH RESPECT AND SACRED in honoring it . For antique it implies money value as time goes , distegarding its heritage value. Big countries not only exploit & spoil natural resources of simpler countries , exploit / enslave its citizens , bring chaos , tempts its corruptible leaders ... but loots its heritage possesions for social stature of its millions worth of money. They require bureucratic papers for its return because they dont like to return it , its a lost of money & prestige .
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Very good informative documentary !
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LOOTDON. To that auctioneer- he is selling not keeping it in an admission fee free museums, if he really cares about Asian culture in London. Just use the replica not the stolen originals.
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Most of these artifacts are originally Cambodian artifacts lol 🤣🤣🤣
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Museum's collections all over the world will be half empty pretty soon. But artifacts should be returned to its original place
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Another excellent report by CNA Insider. Thank you.
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How these people arebbeheving like a gentle men but they only looted India for 200 years , for 45 trillions dollers kohinoor nearly all temple gods in thier musiums
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I understand Police Dept of Tamilnadu had created a Idols Recovery Department. Is it still active, and are they helping in this recovery or are they only concentrating on small time temple thieves ? Notice how CHINESE Govt is taking action even for a small item like a flask which is not even stolen. Does our Govt do anything like this ?
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Good Job Mishra sir. You are one of the dew persons due ro which we are avle to save our cultural heritage.
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The conspirators who were well paid for their intel and cooperation in smuggling these artefacts were citizens from the Nations where these treasures originated. Sold out by their own people.
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this is so sad, and i know there are so much of these gods from laos are being looted as well back then and now. the sad part that i see in lao is their own people are stealing these and sell these pieces to the westerners. also, some form of educating the people of the country need to be teach about it. the poor, when they are poor, they really don't care, they will take anything and sell them. so glad to see people are helping and i am going to check their site and on my off time, i want to help as well.
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It's indeed looted
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We have golden tara here in the Philippines but was also stolen. It is now reside in Chicago museum. I hope this one also will come home.
