Ratanakkiri cop in bed with loggers, villagers say

Rights group Adhoc will take a complaint filed against a commune police officer accused of colluding with illegal loggers in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district to the provincial court today.

The complaint, which villagers in Lbaing II commune filed with Adhoc on Friday, alleges that commune police officer Phien Det assisted loggers in clearing rosewood and lower-grade luxury wood from a 193-hectare area of protected community forest, said community representative Kanhseu Bory, one of six who filed the complaint. …

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