Five arrested for allegedly felling century-old Rosewood tree in Angkor park

 

Two senior officials of the Apsara Authority and three contractors were arrested on Thursday for alleged involvement in the felling of a century-old Rosewood tree at the Angkor archaeological park, The Phnom Penh Post Online reported on Friday.

 

Two of the five suspects, Apsara deputy chief for forestry Chhor Thanat and the chief of its internal office for forestry administration, Chev Phal – were additionally charged with being the instigators of the crime under Article 26 of the Criminal Court.

 

All five were charged with forest destruction under Article 98 of the forestry law.

 

The three contractors also worked at the authority’s forestry administration office.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/five-arrested-for-allegedly-felling-century-old-rosewood-tree-in-angkor-park/

 

 

 

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Off with their heads

As long as our stupid society puts such a false monetary value on a bit of beautiful timber they will end

up all being cut down

 

 

It is patently clear that they blatantly felled the tree in full public view and assumed no consequences at all.

Shocking. Give them 100 years in the nick !

“After [police] arrested the low-level workers, local people became upset because they have sympathy for them,” said Puthik, explaining most believed the high-ranking officials should take full responsibility for the orders they had given their staff."

 

Indeed!  On the one hand the PM and is family control the rosewood trade, using the army to organize the extraction of timber from all national forests, and even theft from across the border in Thailand, supplying Vietnamese and Chinese traders.  On the other hand, under public pressure he orders the arrests of the minions hired to supply the timber.  They'll probably each do a couple of months in jail before being freed when the public has forgotten the issue, and back to their jobs in the forestry office. Life is cheap in Hun Sen's kleptocracy.

hard to find a thing in this country that is not tainted.

I hope the wood gets used for musical instruments, makes lovely guitar fret boards than go to waste.

3 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

hard to find a thing in this country that is not tainted.

I hope the wood gets used for musical instruments, makes lovely guitar fret boards than go to waste.

Burn it with the elephant tusks