Tuesday, 10 Apr 2012 17:39
Press Statements
Joint matter by Malaysian NGOs & SMSL (Save Malaysia Stop Lynas)
Replying to a minute of direct released by Lynas Corporation Australia.
We a NGOs together with SMSL would similar to to surprise a members of a media as well as a Malaysian open that Lynas Corporation Ltd Australia has released a minute of direct to a following recipients:
SMSL:
1. Mr Tan Bun Teet, Chairperson
2. Mr Steve Hang, SMSL, Committee member
3. Ms Grace Lee, SMSL, COmmittee member
4. Haji Ismail Abu Bakar, Committee member
NGOs:
1. Pusat Komunikasi Masyarakat (KOMAS)
2. Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
3. Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia (SABM)
4. Education as well as Research Association for Consumers (ERA Consumer)
5. Persatuan Masyarakat Selangor dan Wilayah! Perseku tuan (PERMAS)
6. Persatuan Sahabat Wanita, Selangor
7. Center for Policy Initiatives (CPI)
8. Center for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC)
9. Malaysian Indian Progressive Association (MIPAS)
10. Malaysian Youth CARE Association (PRIHATIN)
11. Federation of Malaysian Indian Organisation (PRIMA)
12. Federation of Volunteers, Malaysia
13. Partners for PEACE, Malaysia (PfPM)
14. Society for Community Welfare as well as Charity Services (CWCS)
15. Persatuan Perkembangan Kaunseling dan Psikologi Malaysia
16. Malaysian Indian Rights as well as Transformation Action Team (MITRA)
17. Health Equity Initiatives
18. OHMSI Sdn Bhd
19. Malaysian Physicians for Social Responsibility (MPSR)
20. Lawyers For Liberty (LFL)
21. Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH)
22. Anak Muda Sarawak (AMS)
23. Community Action Network (CAN)
24. Pertubuhan Advokasi Masyarakat Terpinggir Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor (PAMT)
25. Water as well as Energy Consumer Association of Malaysia (WECAM)
26. All Women's Action Society (AWAM)
27. Solidarity for Civil Rights in China (SCRC)
28. LLG Cultural Development Centre
29. Jaringan Rakyat Tertindas (JERIT)
30. Sinui Pai Nanek Sengik (SPNS)
31. Jaringan Kampung Oran! g Asli S emenanjung Malaysia (JKOASM)
32. Peoples Service Organisation (PSO)
33. Malaysia Youth as well as Student Democratic Movement (DEMA)
34. Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA)
35. Panggau Sarawak
36. PACOS Trust, Sabah
37. Borneo Resources Institute, Malaysia (BRIMAS)
38. Institute for Development of Alternative Living (IDEAL)
39. Malaysians Against Death Penalty as well as Torture (MADPET)
40. Tenaganita
41. Malaysian Physicians for Social Responsibility
42. Empower
43. Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ)
44. Women's Aid Organization (WAO)
45. Persatuan Pemuda Hainan Negeri Sembilan
In a minute of demand, a authorised attorneyfor Lynas Corporation Jeff Wong, Poon & Leong Associates as! well as Solicitors in their fifteen page minute tries to urge a points lifted in a Joint matter in a form of a minute to a Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak released upon Mar 22, 2012.
In Lynas' minute of demand, indicate no.6 settled as follows:
We a NGOs who endorsed a prior letter-statement would similar to to surprise a members of a Media as well as all endangered Malaysian adults that we will not crawl down to such danger strategy of a large hulk house similar to Lynas.
Not usually that we endangered adults of Malaysia as well as member of a various NGOs will not back down upon a position upon reception Lynas' authorised threat, it has actually helped to make organisation a resolve to fight harder to protect Malaysia's interests as well as basic tellurian rights opposite a aggression of Lynas' Corporation. We have a moral duty as well as amicable shortcoming to right a wrongs that have been dealt by Lynas upon a seaside by a singular earth refinery devise as well as we will stand organisation as well as joined to stop it.
We have been additionally wakeful that underneath Australia's Uniform Defamation Law, corporations with 10 or some-more employees cannot sue; as well as additionally that individuals can be "defamed though not companies.In issuing this minute of direct to a extended bottom of civil multitude groups in Malaysia, Lynas Corp is taking value of Malaysian laws upon defamation that additionally falls short of international standards.
If Lynas is genuine as well as frank in a explain that it is following international standard, it would have reputable a basic democratic rights of Malaysians to free speech generally when open seductiveness is at stake in this case. Instead Lynas Corporation seems to be perplexing to overpower a truth by flexing a flesh with a power, income as well as expensive lawyers. Let us remind we about a important sto! ry of "D avid as well as a Goliath" where a hulk goliath was in conclusion degraded by a true as well as eminent David, who used his wits as well as courage to ward off a assault of a hulk Goliath who thought he was so powerful as well as strong.
In that same spirit we will continue to pursue a onslaught to stop Lynas Corporation from a operation upon this land for a consequence of a lives as well as environment. The Malaysian people will not crawl to danger strategy by large bully corpora! tions es pecially those that have a lot to hide, as well as continue to call upon half truths as well as lies to deceive a people. Take your poison away from this land as well as do not infect a earth, sky as well as seas.
TODAY WE CALL UPON ALL CITIZEN GROUPS, NGOS & CIVIL SOCIETY MOVEMENTS TO CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR A"LYNAS-FREE" MALAYSIA!STOP LYNAS NOW!
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AUSSIE NGOs additionally step up pressure upon Lynas
Lynas chose Malaysia for a singular earths processing: why not Australia?
Anti Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia (ANAWA) claims that Lynas' massive changes to a devise has resulted in a plant being built in Gebeng where laws have been looser as well as work is cheaper. The Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia (ANAWA) has revealed that Lynas Corporation Ltd was supposed to set up a plant in Western Australia as well as not Malaysia.
According to ANAWA, Lynas' 14-year-old plans indicated that a Australian mining hulk had orginally planned to set up a estimate plant in Meenar a decade ago. But until currently there had been no signs of any growth upon a dictated site.
ANAWA spokesperson Marcus Atkinson revealed that a orginal approvals were since by a Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) for Lynas to boat singular earth to buyers as well as confirmed that he had viewed these relevant papers firsthand.
However, he pronounced that Lynas had since done numerous alterations to a oper! ations t o a indicate that a singular earth refinery had right away landed in Malaysia. "Instead of transporting processed singular earth, it is right away shipping a combine that contains thorium as well as alternative hot material with some-more complicated metals".
Atkinson certified that they had been some-more focused upon Lynas' operations in Australia until a conflict in Malaysia reached their ears as well as they realised that Lynas' had done "massive" changes to a plans.
"Now it involves Malaysia as well as a moral responsibility," he said.
"This is a finish shift to a strange devise as a result why we have been urging a EPA to examination Lynas' approvals."
Atkinson added that ANAWA as well as EDO strongly believed that Lynas had selected to move a operations to Malaysia since of a complicated metals as well as hot rubbish concerned in a processing. "We believe Lynas picked Malaysia to save income as well as enable it to work underneath reduction stri! ngent la ws". "The greatest concerns about a estimate have been a storage as well as rubbish government issues that have been done some-more difficult in Gebeng that we understand to be wetlands."
Asked if Lyns would be allowed to work in a same manner as well as with a same liberty in Western Australia as in Gebeng, Atkinson firmly replied in a negative.
"There is no way it could work a way it is in Malaysia over here," he said. "Australia's laws have been much some-more stringent."
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