Community sues border police over loggers
A group of villagers in Mondolkiri province filed a lawsuit this week against three local border police officers and a forestry official accusing them of allowing Vietnamese loggers to sneak across the nearby border and illegally log the forests they depend on for a living.
Khut Chanra said on 7 January that his community filed the suit with the provincial court on 5 January and identified the targets of their complaint as police officers Prak Phearom, In Sitra and Keo Sopheap—who each head a separate checkpoint along Pech Chreada district’s border with Vietnam—and Kong Vireak, head of the Forestry Administration’s Pech Chreada division.
