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Article: Phnom Penh Said to Undercut U.N. Effort to Save Forests
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- The Washington Post
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- February 3, 1993
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As the United Nations struggles to bring peace to Cambodia, all
four warring parties are ravaging the country's forests to meet a
rapacious foreign demand for tropical timber and to finance their
political or military activities, according to U.N. and diplomatic
sources here.
Up to now, most international attention to the problem has focused
on timber exports by the notorious Khmer Rouge guerrillas, who have
granted lucrative concessions to Thai logging companies in guerrilla
zones near the border with Thailand.
But U.N. and diplomatic sources say the Phnom Penh government,
which controls about 85 percent of Cambodia's territory, is
responsible for a far greater volume of logging and has ...