Word: monumentalizing
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...Museum of Genocidal Crime, as the road signs call it, has long been one of the principal tourist sites in Phnom Penh, long enough for locals to have stubbed out scores of cigarettes in the eyes of Pol Pot in one photograph. But this spring the monument to the past came into the news again when the man who had overseen the torture for four years, Kang Khek Ieu, generally known as Duch, was suddenly discovered, by foreign journalists, in a western Cambodian village. He was running a crushed-ice stall in the countryside and had certificates of baptism...
While some pieces of the monument were chipped away by natural causes, the ornament was smoothly sawed off, indicating that it had been stolen...
...knew straightaway that it had come from the monument," he said. "It fit exactly...
Though Graham had never seen the object in place, he was able to establish its authenticity based on the rest of the monument's ornamentation...
...speaking with attorneys representing Guatemala, the art collector, whose identity is being withheld, agreed to return the ornament. It will be returned to Guatemala next week and will likely be displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology and History in Guatemala City. Eventually, it could be displayed with the monument, according to Howard N. Spiegler, an attorney with the firm representing Guatemala...