Activists seek UN monitors

9 October 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Crime and law enforcement / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Government / Human rights / International relations / Judiciary and courts / Land / Law and judiciary / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected areas / Protected forest / Social development
ACU / Anti-Corruption Unit / Chea Hean / Chhun Chhie Heng / Ministry of Environment / MoE / Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization / NRWPO / Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary / UN / United Nations

Anti-logging activists wrote to the United Nations yesterday to call for the monitoring of a lawsuit in which they accuse hundreds of officials in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary of illegal deforestation.

The Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization (NRWPO) listed 241 officials it suspects of illegal deforestation in the nine-page letter to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia.

NRWPO director Chea Hean said yesterday that Chhun Chhie Heng, director of Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary, and eight other officials were responsible for logging in breach of the 2002 Forestry Law. …

 Phak Seangly
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