The rush to strip mine Cambodia’s forests

Don’t tell anyone a forest is falling in Cambodia – asiancorrespondent.com, September 30, 2012
“If they come to Cambodia, I will hit them until their heads are broken”.
These are the words attributed to the brother of the Cambodian Prime Minister after the international NGO Global Witness published “Cambodia Familiy tree” in June 2007. The tree exposed how relatives of the prime minister and other senior officials had run illegal logging operations with complete impunity over a number of years…