Stolen Future: Conflicts and Logging in Congo's Rainforests - The Case of Danzer

Publisher:
Greenpeace
Publication Date:
8 November 2011
Tags:
Congo-Kinshasa, Environment, Conflict, Peace and Security

The logging sector in the DRC continues to make shocking headlines with its use of violence and human rights abuses to quell villagers who simply demanded that they receive what is rightfully theirs. Danzer1 has again been involved in a retaliation mission by security forces against a forest community, by transporting and paying the ‘commando’.

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