Cambodia: Kuy People Of Cambodia - Help Us Save Prey Lang ("Our Forest")!


Cambodia: Kuy People Of Cambodia - Help Us Save Prey Lang ("Our Forest")!   This week, while protesters in cities around the world are symbolically occupying Wall Street, Indigenous Kuy people in Cambodia are "occupying" the forest that means life itself to them - Prey Lang ("Our Forest").   Right now, Kuy men, women, and children are holding vigils at sites throughout Prey Lang where bulldozers are slashing the forest to build new roads, rubber plantations, and mines. They are beseeching the...

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