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
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.
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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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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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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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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