Cambodia: environmentalist monk intimidated with gunshot
Event- Country
- Cambodia
- Initial Date
- Oct 4, 2019
- Event Description
A monk living in a forest pagoda in Kampong Speu province is woken by gunshots fired at the temple’s pillars by an unknown shooter. The monk, who had previously joined in environmental activism alongside the Mother Nature movement and worked to protect the wild trees and animals of his forest home, also found a threatening message stuck on a tree warning that there would be no peace if the “bad monk” continued his activism.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Death threat
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Environmental rights defender
- Perpetrator-State
- Unknown
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Unknown
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 11.463341289541049
Longitude: 104.52050376524485
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 4 October 2019, an environmentalist monk received gunshot and a threatening message by unknown perpetrators as intimidation for his activism in Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia.
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