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| Chut Wutty was an outspoken critic of illegal logging in Cambodia. [Reuters] |
4 May 2012
ABC Radio Australia
A Cambodian court has charged a security guard with "involuntary homicide" after shooting incidents that left two people - an environmental activist and a police officer - dead.
Chut Wutty was shot dead about a week ago while gathering evidence of illegal logging in a remote forest in Koh Kong province.
Police first said he had been involved in a shoot-out with an officer. Then they said the officer had shot Chut Wutty before committing suicide.
A local rights group, Licadho, says it believes the military police officer killed Chut Wutty and then was shot with his own gun during a scuffle with the security guard, who tried to disarm him.
The security guard, named as Ran Boroth, was working for Timbergreen, the company licensed to log the site for a Chinese-funded dam.
It is unclear why the military policeman was in the forest at the time but police are regularly hired by private firms to act as security guards.
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