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Cambodian NGOs Threaten to Expose More Illegal Logging
A group of Cambodian NGOs threatened on Monday to expose more cases of forestry crime involving businessmen and the police, saying they were unshaken by a defamation suit filed by a top tycoon accused of illegal logging and land-grabbing. Representatives of the five organizations told reporters Monday they have information about “at least 100 individuals” complicit in illegal logging, including high-ranking police officers who they said could be held liable for criminal charges of corruption and forest destruction…Two villagers quoted in…[an NGO] report…have been summoned to appear in court...in a lawsuit over the report…