Luxury timber goes to Vietnam en masse

[geovalin]

Phak Seangly

While crowds gathered in Phnom Penh to watch Cambodia’s Independence Day parade, a different sort of procession drew the attention of villagers in Ratanakkiri province yesterday, with hundreds of motorbikes flooding across border checkpoints loaded with luxury timber.

The spectacle, which on a smaller scale can be witnessed almost every day, according to provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, Chhay Thy, proceeded uninhibited across four Vietnamese border crossings in Ratanakkiri.

“A hauling by this many motorbikes has never taken place before; there were about 200 motorbikes today,” Thy said. “It looked like a parade; especially given it was Independence Day.”

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[khwaibah]

Stolen and illicit gotten rose wood. Routine to the core society.