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| Chhut Vuthy, tireless campaigner |
The forest witnesses an unsettling death
May 5th 2012 | PHNOM PENH
The Economist
THE killing of Chhut Vuthy has shaken Cambodia. A well-known environmentalist and founder of the Natural Resource Protection Group, he had travelled to Koh Kong province in the west of the country to try to film illegal loggers. He was in a heavily forested area near the construction of a 338-megawatt hydropower dam being built by China Huadian, one of China’s five biggest power generators. The project is one of four dams which have drawn widespread criticism because of adjacent logging, and the impact the dams could have on wildlife and the livelihoods of local villagers.
How Mr Chhut Vuthy was killed is not clear, but the official explanation has raised eyebrows. The Cambodian army claims that he was taking photographs without permission. He was confronted by a military police officer who demanded he hand over his camera. An argument followed, says the army. Guns went off, and when the officer realised he had killed the environmentalist, it says, he turned his AK-47 on himself, managing to pull the trigger twice to shoot himself in the stomach and chest.
Mr Chhut Vuthy’s family insists a third person was involved, and after his funeral on April 28th hundreds of family, friends and human-rights activists demanded a full inquiry along with assurances from the government that their safety would be guaranteed.
Two journalists were with Mr Chhut Vuthy when he was killed. A Canadian reporter and her Cambodian colleague say they did not see who pulled the trigger after their car was confronted by a group of soldiers. They ran into the bush and sought shelter with locals, but say they heard one of the soldiers say loudly in Khmer, “Just kill them both.”
Mr Chhut Vuthy’s death is the highest-profile killing in Cambodia since a trade union leader, Chea Vichea, was shot dead in 2004. Three women were also shot in February as they campaigned for better working conditions at a factory supplying Puma, a German sportswear company.
All three survived, but the alleged gunman, Chhouk Bandith, a district governor, was arrested only after local media reported that he was being hidden by politically connected friends. He was charged with causing “unintentional injuries”.
10 comments:
Thank you The Ecnomist for spelling Mr. Chhut Vuthy as the way his Khmer name should be.
The Phnom Penh Post, the pelling is Chhut Vuthy, not Chut Wutty.
There's a different sound in Khmer pronounciation between "Ch" and "Chh" sounds. His Khmer name is written in "Chh" sound.
My brother name is "Vuthy". It is a typical Khmer name and always spelled as so. It never spelled as "Wutty". It's a gross journalistic ignorance coming from The Phnom Penh Post trying to Romanized his name as "Chut Wutty".
All reports from authorities till are lie and manipulated?
Is there a special military zone against invisible enemy of the Khmer nation? You're serving with double games:
1) for Khmer nation but only on the paper
2) for mafia.
That is the true story.
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who stand behind those soldiers? ANGKA? Bun Rany?
That's what happen when you try to fuck with China, ok! Just get out of the way of their economic expansion path! Go dig a hole a live in there
Just try to kill one of Hun Den's relatives, you will see how much the PM will react to the incident. Under the CPP regime, a khmer's life is cheaper than a foreigner's dog or cat.
DEAR MR HENG SOY
IF I DO NOT MISUNDERSTOOD , MR CHHOUK BANDIT 'VE NEVER BEEN
ARRESTED .
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