Officials: Forestry workers, military accused of allowing illegal logging in Cambodia
- From: "Chim" <ChimS1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 21 Sep 2005 03:48:26 -0700
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Government authorities headed to northeast
Cambodia on Wednesday to survey areas of felled forest that officials
and military officers are accused of allowing to be illegally logged,
officials said.
The director of Virachey National Park, a park ranger and three
military officials were charged with destroying the environment,
destroying the forest and accepting bribes, said Yim Kim Sean of the
Ministry of the Environment.
The logging lasted from October 2003 until May 2004.
It wasn't clear when the charges were filed, but the ministry filed a
complaint against park and military officials in 2004. It asked to move
the case from Ratanakiri province to Phnom Penh because it didn't want
the provincial court to come under outside pressure, Yim Kim Sean said.
Cambodia's forests were depleted during decades of war and civil
conflict in the 1970s and 1980s, when rival factions sold timber to
finance their activities.
In the 1990s, officially awarded but loosely regulated concessions
stripped away more trees. Government and military officials have
allegedly become increasingly involved.
09/21/05 05:57 EDT
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