Cambodia ‘must admit to logging’

… At a meeting with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had admitted Cambodians were conducting illegal logging and that Thai authorities were right to attempt to defend their territory. On Saturday, 20 natural resource protection officials from Si Sa Ket province which borders Cambodia spotted a group of more than 10 men felling rosewood in the Plan Ta Muan forest south of Ban Huay Jan village in tambon Huay Jan of Si Sa Ket’s Khun Han district. When the Thai authorities identified themselves to make an arrest, the illegal loggers fired at them. The Thais believe the loggers were Cambodians. Both sides exchanged gunfire for about five minutes before the loggers fled the scene. Thai officials yesterday found a chainsaw, three containers holding about 60 litres of petrol, food, rucksacks, 16 planks of processed rosewood and trails of blood at the location. …

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