Military-Forestry Standoff Highlights Old Problem

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Military-Forestry Standoff Highlights Old Problem

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Military-Forestry Standoff Highlights Old Problem

by Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap | April 2, 2016

On the morning of March 28 in the northwestern province of Oddar Meanchey, just a few miles from the Thai border, 10 soldiers stormed the Forestry Administration’s head office in Anlong Veng district, their guns drawn.

The soldiers, from Division 2, Platoon 243, of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF), were not after criminals. According to the Forestry Administration’s local division chief, Khorn Khem, they were the criminals, come to take back a platoon truck he had seized the week before for illegally transporting a haul of timber through the district. After a five-hour standoff with the unarmed forestry officials, the soldiers eventually left empty-handed.

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Soldiers surrender a truckload of rosewood they were attempting to smuggle through Siem Reap province in 2011. (Lay Vesna)

The military police, meant to check such military abuse, say they won’t investigate the raid because no one was hurt and brushed it off as a “misunderstanding.”

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