Cambodian leader faces arrest

  • 25/01/2000

  • Financial Times (London)

A Cambodian provincial governor and a score of other senior officials involved in illegal logging are to be arrested and prosecuted, Hun Sen, the prime minister, said. This will be first time legal action will be taken against anyone in the army of officials said to be conniving in the felling that has stripped forest cover by an estimated 8 per cent a year.