Illegal logging topples Cambodia's forests

  • 20/06/2002

  • International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)

Cambodia's forests were one of the few remaining valuable resources of a country impoverished by a generation of civil war, Khmer Roughe tyranny and Vietnamese occupation. Yet they have been extensively depleted, largely as a result of rampant illegal logging and exports in the 1990s. Numerous civilian and military officials, as well as loggers, have enriched themselves, but they have seldom been charged or convicted.