I Am Chut Wutty: In one of the last remaining wildernesses in
South East Asia, a community of activists are struggling to defend their forest
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In
Cambodia’s
Prey Lang forest deforestation is devastating the lives of the indigenous population.
Environmental activist Chut Wutty is determined to fight the illegal practices of logging companies but when investigating a secret military-controlled logging site, Wutty is shot dead. I am Chut Wutty follows Wutty’s fierce battle against illegal logging in an extraordinary tale of one man’s courageous battle to save Cambodia’s forests.
“He was not afraid of dying, he knew what he was doing. He told me that he would either die or be sent to jail in the end.”
Chey Oudorm, Chut Wutty’s son, explains that Wutty was fully aware of the dangers of confronting Cambodia’s illegal loggers. Utterly dedicated to the cause of protecting his community’s culture, he turned down offers of protection to continue his fight against the companies tearing down his homeland.
Chut Wutty leads a group of activists called the Prey Lang
Network.
Descending upon a logging site armed only with cameras, they film the devastation the loggers have wrought, pointing out discarded equipment and huge piles of timber. The community relies upon this forest for their livelihood. “If we lose the trees because a company comes here or if someone cuts the trees for timber then we lose everything” states Mao Chanthoern, an activist in Wutty’s Network. But logging companies are systematically wreaking a path of destruction through the Prey Lang.
Confronting the loggers, Wutty is grabbed and thrown to the ground at gunpoint. Although shaken by the encounter he refuses to give up.
Already more than 400,
000 resin trees have been felled and no one has received compensation.
Journalist Olesia Plokhii describes how Wutty soon turned his attention to the
Cardamom Mountains, where he believed yellow vine was being used to make drugs. She details his tense final moments as he is shot dead attempting to leave the yellow vine site
. In the aftermath of his death the network struggles to continue their fight without him.
Following Wutty through the campaigns which ultimately led to his death, I am Chut Wutty is an inspiring insight into his battle against the destruction of Cambodia's forests.
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- published: 05 Apr 2016
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