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Monk forest chief files report against soldiers


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A community forest chief in Oddar Meanchey province is pursuing legal action against a pair of soldiers over an incident last month in which they allegedly beat and threatened forest patrollers who caught them transporting luxury timber.

 

The Venerable Bun Saluth, head of the Sorng Rukhavorn community forest, filed a complaint to the Forestry Administration on Friday accusing soldiers Moeng Duong and Sam Pisey of forestry crimes and threatening to set a patroller’s family on fire after patrollers stopped a mini-tractor loaded with timber.

 

“If they have a position they need to be demoted, because the people who committed the crime should not have a title,” Saluth said in an interview yesterday.

 

read more http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monk-forest-chief-files-report-against-soldiers

 
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