Friday, 25 May 2012
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
Phnom Penh Post
An aricraft relic found earlier this month in the Mekong river has
been purchased by the Phnom Penh municipality, officials said yesterday.
Sun
Kannareth, chief of Russey Keo commune police, said the aircraft wing,
bearing a 1960s-era Cambodian Air Force logo, has been transported to
the municipal city hall.
The move was ordered by Phnom Penh governor Kep Chuktema.
“These
parts of aircraft are heritage found at the bottom of the river … which
must be preserved and protected by the government’s conservation or
UNESCO,” added Sun Kannareth.
Scrap metal yard owner Min Oma,
49, who bought the artefact from a fisherman for $400, said the
municipality had reimbursed him to the tune of $500. He told the Post on
Tuesday that he had hoped to sell it for $1,000.
According to a
senior official at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, the aircraft
bears the inscription “Made in USA”, with the Cambodian flag, and likely
crashed during the civil war in the early 1970s.
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