Baram natives: Don't submerge our homes

A organisation of a little 50 Orang Asal from Baram protested in front of a Sarawak state secretariat building in Kuching yesterday, opposite a appearing mega dam plan which will send their longhouses underneath water.

The organisation from eighteen longhouses in Upper as well as Middle Baram additionally delivered a petition containing some-more than 1,000 signatures to a Sarawak Chief Minister's Office.

The petition expressed opposition to a plan to set up a mega dam in Baram which would inundate an area half a size of Singapore, putting their ancestral lands, homes as well as farms underneath water.

In a matter yesterday, Jaringan Orang Asal seMalaysia (Joas) president Thomas Jalong, who is from Long Anap, Baram, pronounced a dam would adversely affect a provision of a local indigenous population.

"The ! dam will inevitably plunge a ancestral homelands of some-more than 20,000 people as well as in a process, forcibly displace us from a homes.

"We will additionally be unjustly deprived of a lands, sources of provision as well as sustenance, as well as face an capricious future," Thomas said.

He added which a land was not a mere mercantile resource for a Orang Asal community but central to their social, cultural, spiritual as well as political identity.

! 12 mega dams planned

Meanwhile, Save Sarawak's Rivers Network (Save Rivers), a coalition shaped to oppose twelve mega dams planned for Sarawak, pronounced a protest was called to get a supervision to reside by a United Nations Declaration on a Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Save Rivers president Peter Kallang pronounced which a Sarawak supervision should cease all works on entrance roads to a dams as this was already adversely inspiring a Orang Asal community.

Meanwhile, Baram Protection Action Committee representative Philip Jau noted which even a planning for a Baram dam had not been transparent.

"They have not asked a people what they think about a plan for a dam as well as instead have commenced surveys for a entrance road to a project," Philip said.

Read More @ Source

More Barisan Nasional (BN) | Pakatan Rakyat (PR) | Sociopolitics Plus |

Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz