Thai soldiers kill 3 Cambodian loggers

4 November 2012
Straits Times
Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber
Battambang Province / Border / Cambodia's borders / Cambodian-Thai border / Forests / illegal wood logging / logging / luxury wood / luxury wood trade / rosewood / Samlot District / Thai soldiers / Wood

Thai soldiers have shot dead three Cambodian men for illegally cutting rosewood on the frontier of Thai territory… He [Prach Chan, governor of Cambodia’ s Battambang province] said the Thai side claimed that the men illegally entered Thai territory for logging purposes on Saturday, in an area between Battambang province’s Samlot district and Thailand…

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