Firm ‘logging in sanctuary’

27 March 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest cover / Forest policy and administration / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Government / Human rights / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Rubber / Social development
Council of Ministers / Master Kson Co Ltd / Mil Soueng / Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary / Phnong ethnic minority / Sokh Sant commune

A company in Mondulkiri’s Sok San commune has been gradually cutting down a community forest, pushing more than 100 families off their land, villagers said yesterday. “That land belongs to us, the government granted it to us in 1999. But the company invaded and let us do nothing on it,” Mao Theoung, 62, from the Phnong minority, said yesterday. …

 May Titthara
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