Urn theft weighs on guards, families

Seang Sarin swears he only fell asleep for a moment. It’s a moment he has cursed and played over in his head for nearly 20 months now.

Speaking to the Post in a detention room at the Kandal Provincial Court this week, the former guard at Oudong Mountain described waking to the sound of dogs barking, then running to check the stupa that housed a golden urn said to contain remains of the Buddha,one the Kingdom’s most valuable religious relics. …

May Titthara
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