Myanmar: Another Victim of Illegal Logging and Forest Crime?

Dec 14, 2016 | Environmental Investigation Agency
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Illegal logging in Myanmar is more than the issue of cutting trees – it is an umbrella issue which underlines the absence of good governance and which encompasses issues of corruption, violence, the criminalisation of local communities, unsustainable livelihoods and massive profits for those in the illicit trafficking of timber to international markets.

The killing in Myanmar of a journalist who covered issues related to illegal logging in the country must be investigated thoroughly and all findings made public.  Soe Moe Tun was based in the Sagaing region, working with Eleven Media News in Myanmar. According to initial reports today (December 13), he was found with extensive head and facial injuries; local police have begun an investigation into his death. - See more at: http://www.mizzima.com/news-domestic/another-victim-illegal-logging-and-forest-crime#sthash.nmddMuHC.dpufThe killing in Myanmar of a journalist who covered issues related to illegal logging in the country must be investigated thoroughly and all findings made public.

Soe Moe Tun was based in the Sagaing region, working with Eleven Media News in Myanmar. According to initial reports today (December 13), he was found with extensive head and facial injuries; local police have begun an investigation into his death.