John Vidal and David Adam
The Guardian
Wednesday February 13 2008
Bones of contention
In the normal world, green groups call for changes in government and everyone accuses the US of getting everything wrong. No more. The Royal Kingdom of Cambodia has just called for a regime change at the London-based group Global Witness (GW), which Cambodia's government argues is plotting against it "much in the way that dogs are happier to lick bones in the domestic waste". What is going on? It goes back to GW's investigation of deep corruption in the Cambodian logging industry that found links to all levels of government and, importantly, named names. This in turn resulted in the US refusing the visas of corrupt people named in the report, and clearly this is now hurting. Sadly, the UK government and the EU have declined to follow the US government's lead.
The Guardian
Wednesday February 13 2008
Bones of contention
In the normal world, green groups call for changes in government and everyone accuses the US of getting everything wrong. No more. The Royal Kingdom of Cambodia has just called for a regime change at the London-based group Global Witness (GW), which Cambodia's government argues is plotting against it "much in the way that dogs are happier to lick bones in the domestic waste". What is going on? It goes back to GW's investigation of deep corruption in the Cambodian logging industry that found links to all levels of government and, importantly, named names. This in turn resulted in the US refusing the visas of corrupt people named in the report, and clearly this is now hurting. Sadly, the UK government and the EU have declined to follow the US government's lead.
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