Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
13 August 2007
The London-based forestry monitor Global Witness and the Cambodian government traded a fresh round of barbs over the weekend, following Global Witness's calls on World Bank chief Robert Zoellick to investigate corruption in Cambodia's logging sector.
"The Cambodian government, increasingly desperate to defend their already tarnished public image, has issued a press release demanding a change in Global Witness' leadership and a call to the organisation's donors to cut funding," Global Witness said in a statement Friday.
A Cambodian Embassy statement earlier this month called the group's recommendations to the World Bank "amusing and disturbing."
Global Witness issued a lengthy report earlier this year linking illegal logging to Prime Minister Hun Sen, his family and an extended "kleptocratic elite."
"The Cambodian government, increasingly desperate to defend their already tarnished public image, has issued a press release demanding a change in Global Witness' leadership and a call to the organisation's donors to cut funding," Global Witness said in a statement Friday.
A Cambodian Embassy statement earlier this month called the group's recommendations to the World Bank "amusing and disturbing."
Global Witness issued a lengthy report earlier this year linking illegal logging to Prime Minister Hun Sen, his family and an extended "kleptocratic elite."
2 comments:
Why the world has to listen to HUN SEN?That is so funny if I have heard about Hun Sen song over and over, why these regime always retaliate when they find his disgusting point, oh now I see the cow with the infect wound on the back always wave it tail while
the crows are flying over. The clean government shouldn't not do that because they have nothing to hide.
The same request that Cambodian government has is
we all Cambodian PPL want Hun Sen step out, resign,
assassinate is it fair because he is the worse corrupt Government in Cambodia history and cut Cambodia land illegally to Vietnam 's master.912
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