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Thu 04 Apr 2010Blood on our hands: Ireland's role in illegal logging
Buying illicit timber funds violent regimes and causes global warming – and Ireland is the EU’s worst offender
LAST WEEK, the Netherlands supreme court sent back for trial a Dutch timber baron, Guus Kouwenhoven, for crimes committed during the civil war in Liberia – principally his alleged involvement in arms smuggling. (He was convicted of it in 2006 and sentenced to eight years imprisonment but this was overturned on appeal in 2008.)
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