The Blood Antiquities Convention and Asian Cultural Property. A Remedy or Disappointment? The Case of Cambodia
The Blood Antiquities Convention and Asian Cultural Property. A Remedy or Disappointment? The Case of Cambodia

Summary/Abstract: The first publicly discussed incident of looting Khmer art emerged in 1924 whennone other than the André Malraux, an art theorist and a later France’s minister ofcultural affairs, decided to sell “souvenirs” he and his wife had brought from theirtrip to Angkor.3 The development of illicit trafficking in Cambodia’s cultural heritagefollowed the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and involved refugee groupsin Thailand trained to pillage Cambodia’s ancient sites for the purpose of transferringdismembered cultural property abroad to reach the art market in Bangkok and,subsequently, Europe or the United States.

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