Threats as police, WWF officer probe logging

3 January 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Forest policy and administration / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / Social development
Chhit Sam Ath / Forestry Administration / Nhem Vanny / Pu Chrey Commune / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / Trang Thoeurn / World Wide Fund for Nature / WWF

Seven police officers and an NGO staffer in Mondulkiri province escaped a potentially violent confrontation with illegal loggers on Wednesday, while a soldier who was accompanying the group claimed he received death threats from military police connected to the logging operation.

Khleuv Krak, 40, a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces officer from Phnom Penh, was with seven policemen and a staff member of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) who were on a trip to measure the effects of logging on the community forest in Pech Chreada district’s Pou Chrei commune. …

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