Written by CPI Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:39
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The Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) is a well-connected general classification "committed to maintaining a threatened pleasant rainforests with their abounding plant as well as animal life, as well as to campaigning, in particular, for a rights of a peoples who live a rainforests" with an individual focus upon Sarawak.
One of a BMF principals a eponymous owner Bruno Manser was a Swiss romantic who lived in Sarawak with a Penan in between 1984 as well as 1990. He famously left without trace in May 2000 after his final tour to a state.
The abounding as well as infamous
BMF not long ago conducted an investigation in to a resources of Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud as well as his family. These family members include:
- Taib's brother, Onn Mahmud who is rated a clan's second richest after a Sarawak CM himself
- Taib's elder son, Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, who is being sued his pants off! in a di vorce court by his ex-wife (the sister of singer Sheila Majid)
- His Canada-based socialite daughter, Jamilah Taib Murray
- Another hermit Tufail Mahmud
- Sister Raziah Mahmud
- Daughter Hanifah, and
- Son Sulaiman
Hamed Sepawi, owner of a Ta Ann joist conglomerate as well as Sarawak Energy chairman, is a first cousin of a Sarawak Chief Minister.
Malaysians angry as well as agog
The BMF findings, which inform in item a business activities as well as personal resources of 20 members of a Taib family, have been given courteous coverage by a local internet media, though a mainstream as well as central media have responded with a noisy silence.
Malaysiakiniis a paid subscription headlines site but due to a huge public seductiveness has made a story headlined ' Groundbreaking investigate details Taib's US$ 21bil empire' freely accessible.
Its stating of a BMF "groundbreaking study" upon a Taib family empire has been a many viewed story for 3 uninterrupted days as well as sparked a large series of (almost to one side favourable) comments by Malaysiakini readers.
Malaysiakini further combined which a revelation upon Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud as a richest male in Malaysia "does not surprise a infancy of Sarawakians".
Another headlines portal Free Malaysia Today ran dual stories (here as well as here) upon a issue final week, prompting more than 1,000 of a readers to demonstrate their outrage against Taib's obscene resources by marking 'Angry' in a website's interactive feedback column.
Rainforest devastated by political as well as joist mafia
The ext! raordina ry Taib resources is a theme of much seductiveness not only to those who have long called for an independent inquiry in to a source but additionally to a global environmental transformation which has been monitoring a rape as well as pillage of a very aged Sarawak rainforest.
Borneo's rainforest during 130 million years aged is a oldest in a world. However in a mere wink of an eye (a timespan equivalent to Taib's arch ministership), human fervour as well as heavy logging has caused a many devastating deforestation.
It is a widespread general seductiveness in this lost loss to a planet's bio-diversity which will cause increasing vigour to mount upon Sarawak as well as Malaysia.
At a same time, a accumulation of a Taib clan's fanciful resources has lifted many allegations of corruption as well as abuse of power.
It is a conjecture which resurfaced as well as intensified again not long ago when upon Sept 20, BMF expelled a inform upon a arise of a revisit by Minister of Plantation Industries as well as Commodities, Bernard Dompok, to a European Commission in Brussels.
While a inform 'The Taib joist mafia: Facts as well as figures upon politically exposed persons from Sarawak, Malaysia' became major stories in a pick media, "the government-controlled imitation as well as electronic media have remained absolutely silent upon a issue", said BMF in an e-mail communication to a NGOs network.
On a behind of a "tidal waves" combined by a painstakingly researched 'timber godfather' report, BMF is asking governments as well as banks around a universe to solidify a Taib family assets.
"The Taibs are being compared to a Suharto as well as Marcos clans who have additionally stolen billions from their countries ," said BMF in their website.
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