Wednesday, 02 May 2012
| Family members and supporters of Chut Wutty, the conservationist who was shot dead in a remote region of Koh Kong province last week, say they will continue his work and seek to protect what remains of Cambodia's dwindling forests.
The shooting, which also saw the death of a military police officer, has underscored the dangerous work of activists in the arena of illegal logging and deforestation. |
And even though the government has put together a committee to
investigate the circumstances surrounding it, critics say little else is
likely to be done.
Chut Wutty was buried on Monday in Kandal province. His wife, Sam Chanthy, said she was happy that "his death was for the sake of the nation."
"I want my children to be trained to work like their father," she said, weeping before his coffin. "He did not sell national territory. He just protected the forest for the people in the country and around the world."
Chut Wutty, who was escorting two journalists and was shot after arguing with military police over photographs taken of suspected illegal logging in the province, was the director of the National Resource Protection Group. VOA Khmer's Say Mony reports.
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