PHNOM PENH — A journalist in Cambodia died on Saturday after he was shot this week while investigating illegal logging in the country's northwest, police said.
PHNOM PENH — A journalist in Cambodia died on Saturday after he was shot this week while investigating illegal logging in the country's northwest, police said.Chhoeung Chheung, 63, who worked for local news outlet Kampuchea Aphivath, was shot in the abdomen with a homemade weapon on Wednesday evening in a forest in Siem Reap province, provincial police chief Huoth Sothy told Agence France-Presse .
Since 1994, at least 15 journalists have been killed in the Southeast Asian country, according to the Cambodian Center for Human Rights.In 2014, Taing Try was shot dead while investigating the illicit timber trade in northeastern Kratie province.Three suspects — a former soldier, a policeman and a military police officer — were arrested for killing the journalist.
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