Journalist investigating illegal logging shot dead

13 October 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Law and judiciary / Logging and timber / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries / Ministry of Interior / Ministry of Justice / Social development
Human Rights Watch’s Asia division / Khmer Journalist for Democracy Association / Moeun Chhean Nariddh / Phil Robertson / RCAF / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / Sok Sovann

A 49-year-old journalist reportedly investigating illegal logging in Kratie province was shot dead early Sunday morning. Within hours, police arrested three men—a commune police chief, a military police officer and a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldier—for the murder, officials said.

Taing Try, who contributed to several local newspapers, was shot in the forehead at about 1 a.m. in Snuol district’s Khsoem commune after he and five other journalists went to investigate reports of illegal logging, according to Sok Sovann, president of the Khmer Journalist for Democracy Association, of which the slain reporter was a member. …

 Saing Soenthrith and Simon Henderson
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