It continues every day under the eyes of the law officers who are supposed to protect our forests. There are good law officers and good environmentalists, and there are international organizations working in Cambodia right now, but they cannot confront, they cannot practise when the Ministry of Defence itself is behind the illegal logging. The family of the Prime Minister and these big tycoons are behind this massive illegal logging, and the dams that are being built today in Cambodia under the name of good development for the people of Cambodia actually do log illegally. These big plantations log illegally through these policies of the government, which are economic land concessions. There are millions of hectares of land, and 85% of our people are rural poor. Our farmers have lost their land. There are over two million migrant workers who are Cambodians because they lost their land. They are so much in debt that they have to go to Thailand and to other countries in the region as unskilled workers. There are two million migrant workers.
On March 27th, 2018. See this statement in context.