Chanthysun: Bye, Bye, USA ... for Hun Sen and cronies involved in illegal logging?

The United States Capitol in Washington, DC. US senators want to ban Cambodian officials tied to illegal logging from entering the United States.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)

Thu Jul 19, 2007US senators seek travel ban for Cambodians tied to illegal logging.

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - US senators want to ban Cambodian officials tied to illegal logging from entering the United States.

The move was sparked by a recent report from the forestry watchdog Global Witness, which accuses top officials, including relatives of Prime Minister Hun Sen, of stripping the country's timber.

The Senate appropriations committee, in a document dated July 10, has urged US President George W. Bush to exercise Presidential Proclamation 7750, "to prohibit corrupt Cambodian officials identified in the June 2007 Global Witness report... from entering the United States.