Villagers campaigning to save forest harassed, NGO says
As hundreds of villagers belonging to the Prey Long People’s Network began a week-long campaign to save Prey Long forest, Kompong Thom province military police intervened Sunday and prevented a group of about 80 villagers from joining the campaign, an environmental activist said yesterday. Chut Wutty, director of the Natural Resources Protection Group, a legal education NGO working around Prey Long, said villagers were on their way to the north of Sandan district when they were stopped on the road by about 30 armed police and military police…
