Then, as it has sadly happened elsewhere, the wonder which has been built as a tribute to humankind, its soul and spirituality, will sink into a sea of money paper. It would be too easy to lay the blame on the Cambodian. Another danger facing Angkor is looting of artefacts. Statues are removed from the sites or savagely sawn off and end up in antique shops in Thailand, Hong Kong, in auction houses in Europe and elsewhere. Here again, it would be too easy to blame the Cambodian hands who steal their own treasures and sell them to foreign dealers for a few dozen or hundred dollars.
Poverty is the root of all evils.
It is out of my hands. One stone does not make a temple. Thousands of them, millions of them do. Unesco and Governments worldwide have done their jobs. As individuals, each of us can do our share.