Artifacts stolen from the Kotawehera Rajamaha temple in Sri Lanka are the latest victims of longstanding looting and trafficking.
Emiline Smith
Emiline Smith is a lecturer in art crime and criminology at the University of Glasgow (UK). She currently leads two GCRF-funded projects on the trafficking of cultural and natural resources in Indonesia, Nepal and Myanmar. Follow her on Twitter at @DrEmilineSmith.
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