Thanks for returning totally fake 'relics,' Cambodia says
By Coconuts Bangkok


Photo: Thai Fine Arts Department

BANGKOK: -- Statues and other artifacts seized from a disgraced police commander’s hidden trove may not be treasures after all.

Thailand’s returners of the lost art say they returned five historical Khmer treasures to Cambodia this week, but experts there say they’re fakes – and not very good ones at that.

“I don’t know why they think the statues might be real,” Kong Vireak, director of the National Museum of Cambodia, said in the Phnom Penh Post of the five objects in question.

Thailand’s Fine Arts Department said expert relic hunters helped choose the five particular objects which included a Khmer-style Buddha, Shiva, Brahma and multi-limbed figure. They believed them to be about six centuries old. [read more...]

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2015/01/24/thanks-returning-totally-fake-relics-cambodia-says


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-01-24

Did they 'accidentally' return the infamous fake Blue Diamond along with those relics, too?

Amazing Thailand

so who conned the con men?

Could it at all be possible that someone switch the real statues for these fake ones.

Could it at all be possible that someone switch the real statues for these fake ones.

DUH ... ya think - and hence the reference to the blue diamond in a previous post. If you're

not familiar it was the case of stolen gems from Saudi Arabia that were "returned" and proved

to be fakes. Thai/Saudi relations have been in the toilet for over two decades over that

little stunt. And, how did that effect Thailand, well they lost the foreign remittances of an over

500,000 strong expat workforce in Saudi. Locally, a few witnesses "disappeared".

Gonna take some fancy dancin' and side steppin' to avoid the same accusations here. But of

course its simply likely to just "disappear" from the news.

Could it at all be possible that someone switch the real statues for these fake ones.

Or someone cheated the policeman?

Land of fakes!

Amazing Thailand

16 Other artifakes are to be returned. 20 more genuine relics will be given consideration before it is decided they stay in Thailand.

The Green Emerald Buddha was taken from Laos. Until this day Thailand has not made it known to the public.

16 Other artifakes are to be returned. 20 more genuine relics will be given consideration before it is decided they stay in Thailand.

Probably need time for making copies.

Just a small misunderstanding here, the Thai's wanted to make sure the Cam's could tell the difference that is all.

WHAT THE HELL !!!!!! I YELLED .

LOL, There is no situation in which Thais don't come up with huge, easily uncovered lies. I will be waiting with interest for the Thai response to this.

I mean, why even bother returning anything. These statues were not sent to Cambodia in response to a demand. They were sent as a result of the arrest of Pongpat and the raiding of the antiques business. This would, in turn, point to a switch of real relics for fakes at some point almost certainly involving the Thai police.

The Green Emerald Buddha was taken from Laos. Until this day Thailand has not made it known to the public.

Hey you are right. Learn something every day.. Do you think Thailand will

return it ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Buddha

"In 1779, the Thai General Chao Phraya Chakri put down an insurrection, captured Vientiane and looted the Emerald Buddha to Siam, taking it with him to Thonburi. "

Surely it's the thought that counts?

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Thailand’s Fine Arts Department said expert relic hunters helped choose the five particular objects which included a Khmer-style Buddha, Shiva, Brahma and multi-limbed figure.

Thailand, which has recognized that many of the objects recovered were indeed fake, has said it would return 16 of genuine artifacts with another 20 under consideration.

Sums it all up.

Thailand trying to scam Cambodia and being caught red handed.

Perhaps the Cambodians noticed the 'Woolworths' stickers on the bases of the satues and that gave the game away.

Did they check if the actor's Lamborghini is authentic or a Thai "authentic copy"??

This piece of 'returning happiness' hasn't gone down very well has it. Did they miss the 'Made in China' on the back?

Hmmm . . . . This gives me pause to think that the Thai lady last night was faking it?

The Green Emerald Buddha was taken from Laos. Until this day Thailand has not made it known to the public.

Hey you are right. Learn something every day.. Do you think Thailand will

return it ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Buddha

"In 1779, the Thai General Chao Phraya Chakri put down an insurrection, captured Vientiane and looted the Emerald Buddha to Siam, taking it with him to Thonburi. "

Why has that not been sensored from the history books.

Are you allowed to post that?

Am I allowed to repost it? ??

Once again the great minds of Thailand working at their best

The Green Emerald Buddha was taken from Laos. Until this day Thailand has not made it known to the public.

I heard it might actually be jade.

Hmmm . . . . This gives me pause to think that the Thai lady last night was faking it?

Are you sure it was a lady?

I am confused.

Either pong pat was collecting fake objects. Which means he did nothing wrong.

And the historians don't know fake from genuine.

Or the original statutes were real and the police or historians that were guarding them. Made a switch.

Either way. It looks bad.

....IT IS GETTING MORE EMBARRASSING EVERY DAY, TO TELL PEOPLE I LIVE IN THAILAND,WHEN ONCE I WAS PROUD...

Probably the are made in China ...

The Green Emerald Buddha was taken from Laos. Until this day Thailand has not made it known to the public.

Hey you are right. Learn something every day.. Do you think Thailand will

return it ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Buddha

"In 1779, the Thai General Chao Phraya Chakri put down an insurrection, captured Vientiane and looted the Emerald Buddha to Siam, taking it with him to Thonburi. "

If your going to cut and paste at least cut and paste the other relevant part "The Emerald Buddha remained in Chiang Mai until 1552, when it was taken to Luang Prabang, then the capital of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang."

There is a decent amount of history there and before it ever went to Lao it was first in Chiang Mai.

So who's is it really? I don't see England giving up any of their Egyptian treasures or Indian or any treasures that were looted from the colonized countries. So why should anyone else have too?