Forest Protest Chopped Short

Fresh developments on this report sees Cambodian police banning hundreds of indigenous Phnong people from protesting against the Chinese-owned tree-planting firm Wuzhishan LS Group from operating in an ancestral sites in the province of Mondulkiri.

Peter Leuprecht, UN special envoy on human rights in Cambodia, told the Associated Press that the process had desecrated ancestral burial areas and "spirit forests" which the animist Phnong consider sacred.

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