Cultural Survival is deeply saddened and angered by the killing of Chut Wutty at the hands of Cambodia military police.
Wutty was a great ally to the campaign to Save Prey Lang and the director of the Cambodian environmental watch dog the Natural Resource Protection Group. He was shot yesterday by military police while engaged in field research into illegal logging and land seizures in the Cardamom mountains.
More than 300 activists took to patrolling the Prey Lang forest again for four days, March 23-26, to combat illegal logging. Dressed as Avatars from the blockbuster movie, members of the Prey Lang Network and the Cambodia Natural Resources Conservation group clashed with police and private security guards at a sawmill within Prey Lang forest.
Pok Hong is an Indigenous Kuy activist from Cambodia who has been a protagonist in the fight to save Prey Lang forest from illegal logging and rubber plantations. Read the following interview to get to know Hong and why the fate of Prey Lang forest matters. Special thanks to our campaign partners at the Prey Lang Network for sharing this interview.
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.
