March for the Environment Halted by Police

5 June 2014
VOA Khmer
Civil society / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Government / Human rights / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Environment / Protected forest / Social development
Cambodian Youth Network / Embassy of China / Embassy of Vietnam / Long Dimanche / Ministry of Agriculture / Ministry of Environment / Saom Sopheab / Tim Malay

Some 400 students, monks and activists were stopped from a peaceful march for Environmental Day on Thursday, as they sought to deliver petitions to the Ministry of Environment and other institutions calling for an end to deforestation. Cambodia’s forests provide many services to the rural poor, including minority groups, but those forests are being developed economically for rubber and other products. Marchers had also planned to deliver their petitions to the Ministry of Agriculture, which houses the forestry administration, and the embassies of China and Vietnam, who are major developers in forested areas. …

 Suy Heimkhemra
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