Cambodia - Blaming dead officer, court closes probe into fixer's murder

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that a court in the southern province of Koh Kong yesterday terminated the investigation into environmentalist Chut Wutty's death after concluding that he was killed by a military police officer who was in turn fatally shot by a logging company's security guard. An occasional fixer for journalists, Chut Wutty was murdered while investigating illegal logging on 26 April. "How convenient, a dead military officer!" Reporters Without Borders said. (...)

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