Saturday, April 10, 2010

Groups Want Prosecutions in Timber Crackdown

A truck carries logs on a rural road is seen in Preah Vihear province some 245 kilometers (152 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Rights groups on Friday praised the government for a recent crackdown on illegal logging.

Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Friday, 09 April 2010

I urge the Cambodian government to crack down on illegal logging at its roots.
Rights groups on Friday praised the government for a recent crackdown on illegal logging but said they want those arrested in the ongoing operation to be prosecuted without political bias.

Arrests are continuing in a sweep of border provinces where illegal logging still takes place, and Prime Minister Hun Sen sacked the head of the government’s forestry administration earlier this week.

But members of the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee told reporters Friday Cambodia still lacks the proper law enforcement and management to conserve what is left of the country’s forests.

In Nam, a representative for a forest community in Kampong Thom province, told reporters Friday he had watched the environment around him deteriorate. When he was a boy, the forest had elephants and tigers, he said. “Now all are lost.”

“I urge the Cambodian government to crack down on illegal logging at its roots,” he said.

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  1. I really Hope that our Cambodia Will be getting better cos now our country has change a lot! ! !
    As Mr. Hun Sen Said: I urge the Cambodia government to crack down on illegal logging at its root.
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  2. I really Hope that our Cambodia Will be getting better cos now our country has change a lot! ! !
    As Mr. Hun Sen Said: I urge the Cambodia government to crack down on illegal logging at its root.
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  3. Anonymous4:49 AM

    Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime

    Members:
    Pol Pot
    Nuon Chea
    Ieng Sary
    Ta Mok
    Khieu Samphan
    Son Sen
    Ieng Thearith
    Kaing Kek Iev
    Hun Sen
    Chea Sim
    Heng Samrin
    Hor Namhong
    Keat Chhon
    Ouk Bunchhoeun
    Sim Ka...

    Committed:
    Tortures
    Brutality
    Executions
    Massacres
    Mass Murder
    Genocide
    Atrocities
    Crimes Against Humanity
    Starvations
    Slavery
    Force Labour
    Overwork to Death
    Human Abuses
    Persecution
    Unlawful Detention


    Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime

    Members:
    Hun Sen
    Chea Sim
    Heng Samrin
    Hor Namhong
    Keat Chhon
    Ouk Bunchhoeun
    Sim Ka...

    Committed:
    Attempted Murders
    Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
    Attempted Assassinations
    Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
    Assassinations
    Assassinated Journalists
    Assassinated Political Opponents
    Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
    Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.

    "But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
    Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
      
    Executions
    Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
    Murders
    Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union 
    Murdered Chea Vichea
    Murdered Ros Sovannareth
    Murdered Hy Vuthy
    Murdered Journalists
    Murdered Khim Sambo
    Murdered Khim Sambo's son 
    Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
    Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
    Murdered Innocent Men
    Murdered Innocent Women
    Murdered Innocent Children
    Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
    Extrajudicial Execution
    Grenade Attack
    Terrorism
    Drive by Shooting
    Brutalities
    Police Brutality Against Monks
    Police Brutality Against Evictees
    Tortures
    Intimidations
    Death Threats
    Threatening
    Human Abductions
    Human Abuses
    Human Rights Abuses
    Human Trafficking
    Drugs Trafficking
    Under Age Child Sex
    Corruptions
    Bribery
    Embezzlement
    Treason
    Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
    Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.  
    Illegal Arrest
    Illegal Mass Evictions
    Illegal Land Grabbing
    Illegal Firearms
    Illegal Logging
    Illegal Deforestation

    Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.

    Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky.  Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground. 
    Source:  Lightning, Discovery Channel

    Illegally Sold State Properties
    Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
    Plunder National Resources
    Acid Attacks
    Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
    Oppression
    Injustice
    Steal Votes
    Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
    Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
    Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters. 
    Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
    Abuse of Power
    Abuse the Laws
    Abuse the National Election Committee
    Abuse the National Assembly
    Violate the Laws
    Violate the Constitution
    Violate the Paris Accords
    Impunity
    Persecution
    Unlawful Detention
    Death in custody.

    Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice. 

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  4. Anonymous5:16 AM

    RISE UP OR STAND UP FOR YOUR SELF CAMBODIAN. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET OUT FROM YOUR DICTATORSHIP LIKE HUN SEN. WHY DON'T YOU USE YOUR PEOPLE POWER TO REMOVE THE HUN SEN REGIME OUT OF POWER. TRY TO GET A FEW MILLIONS KHMER TO RISE UP AND GO TO HIS HOUSE DEMANDING HIM TO STEP DOWN. DON'T YOU SEE WHAT THE PEOPLE OF THAILAND DID RIGHT NOW. OPEN YOUR EYES. IF YOU WANT A GOOD FUTURE AND A GOOD LEADERSHIP IN CAMBODIA YOU MUST CALL MILLIONS OF CAMBODIAN TO STAND UP RIGHT NOW. WAKE UP KHMERS INSIDE.

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  5. Anonymous5:46 AM

    1st Forestry are SOLD, now nothing but palm trees everywhere.

    2nd Lands are FOLD, now nothing but for foreigners to invest.

    3rd Water is GONE, now nothing but insects everyday.

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  6. Anonymous12:20 PM

    i totally agree that gov't should crack down on illegal logging once and for all. make it a crime by law, and punish those found involved either directly or indirectly. i mean, gov't must discourage this illegal activity by all mean. also, encourage people to plant more and more trees in cambodia. trees and other plants makes our country look so beautiful and green. we all can help with this. god bless cambodia.

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  7. Anonymous10:51 PM

    Hun Sen should jail Ty Sokun for destroying Cambodian's forest.

    If Hun Sen doesn't give a consequences to this guy the next guy will be the same.

    He must be jailed.
    He is a national traitor.

    And other the hand, Sam Rainsy was charged with betrayal. This is stupid decision. Sam Rainsy should be given medal of honor for being so brave to uprooted the fake border marks between YUON/Khmer.

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  8. Anonymous11:04 PM

    the thing with sam rainsy is probably he lost a lot of credit for his political involvement in other things or matters in cambodia. i mean, the border issue he helped was fine and admired, but there are other issue that he involved that is less honored for him to do so, i think. maybe he should concentrate his hobby more on protecting borders than getting involved with all issues thinking he the hero for khmer people or something! not right, you know. everybody knows something, not everything, ok! sam rainsy needs to reevaluate his skills and put them into use where they are most useful, really! that's the difference!

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  9. Anonymous11:06 PM

    i think when the prime minister start talking and taking action on different issues important to the nation, people will look at him differently now that cambodia is changing a lot in many fields. good to see real reforms this way and more. god bless cambodia.

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