US museum returns looted statue to Cambodia

epa05233148 A Cambodian takes a picture of a Khmer statue on display during a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 28 March 2016. The Denver, USA, Art Museum returned a 10th Century sandstone statue to Cambodia after it was stolen from the Prasat Chen sactuary of the Koh Ker archaeological site in the Cambodian Preah Vihear province during the Civil War in the 1970's. EPA/MAK REMISSA

PHNOM PENH: An American museum on Monday  returned to Cambodia a 10th-century sandstone sculpture of the Hindu god Rama decades after it was looted from a jungle temple during the kingdom’s civil war.

The 62-inch-tall torso, which was stolen in the 1970s from the Koh Ker temple site near the famed Angkor Wat complex, was handed over by the Denver Art Museum at a ceremony in Phnom Penh.