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Saturday 14 December 2013

Precious Buddhist Relics Stolen in Cambodia

Cambodian officials said Friday a golden urn containing what are considered to be remnants of Buddha's body has been stolen from its shrine near the capital.
Government spokesman Ek Tha said the relics have enormous religious and cultural significance for Cambodians.
"This relic has been respected by Buddhist followers for thousands of years," he said. "This theft cannot be accepted. The perpetrator and any associates who connived to commit such a crime must be prosecuted according to the law of Cambodia."
National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith said the theft was discovered Tuesday when a guard was woken by a barking dog and found the lock to the shrine's door had been damaged and the urn removed.
He said police questioned 13 of the shrine's guards and detained six as suspects, but that authorities had no information about the relics' location. "We need more time to do the investigation," he said.
Ek Tha said the relics had been moved by late King Norodom Sihanouk in 2002 from Phnom Penh, the capital, to the mountain shrine in the former royal city of Udong in a ceremony attended by tens of thousands.
Several countries in Asia possess relics believed to come from the body of Buddha.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

ask HS guard they know. How the F guard and police patroling the Udong every Fking day and nice don't know these buddha got stolen?

Anonymous said...

Stealing and selling everything even one of the most sacred relics in the world. Khmer race getting to the lowest point of human being. They don' t have any clue where is the line must not be crossed. And that the reason Khmer become the nation of sufferng and stricken with curse. No dignity, no moral, no shame, and no soul. They are empty spirit inflict with wondered mind.

Anonymous said...

the thieves are without a doubt children of the left over khmer rouge .. they have no respect for anything just like their leaders in power now.