Military police officer accused

11 July 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Crime and law enforcement / Forest policy and administration / Forests and forestry / Government / Human rights / Land / Law and judiciary / Ministries and other national bodies / Protected areas / Protected forest / Social development
Forestry Administration / Sak Saraing / Seima Protected Forest / Sre Chhouk commune / Sre Khtum commune

A military police officer has been arrested and will be sent to court, while two others remain under questioning, after an unarmed man was shot dead on Wednesday night while travelling in a car through protected forest in Mondulkiri’s O’Raing district, officials said. Two military police in the company of one Forestry Administration official ordered the car to pull over because the driver and two passengers were passing through the Seima Protected Forest, an area plagued by illegal logging, said provincial military police chief Sak Saraing. When the driver refused to stop, the two military officials allegedly fired a volley of bullets. …

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