Arresting Penan blockaders would be abuse of law

you am uneasy to review about a recent growth in a Murum Dam issue, which a police will be sending in reinforcements from Sibu as well as Kapit.

I sense which this is a build up to a detain of a Penans who have been manning a blockade, as well as am intensely unhappy by a statement by district police chief (DSP) Bakar Sebau which movement could be taken opposite those responsible, underneath Section 143 or 147 of a Penal Code for illegal assembly or taking part in a demonstration (Borneo Post, October 23).

The Penans have been a pacific people as well as if there is any riot, it would usually be a result of provocation by agents of a dam-builders or a authorities. Any detain of a Penans by a police would in my view be an abuse of a routine of a law, as well as you am fully rebuilt to act for a Penans should they be arrested.

It is to be remarkable which (land growth minister) James Masing done a statement upon October 18 which a needs of both parties must be deliberate upon a same level of importance, as well as which a element of force must never be authorised to surface.

Let a negotiators upon a side of a dam builders take heed of his difference that, "The people affected by a HEP dams cannot be seen as paying for a needs of a industry."

As for a final part of his judgment "and clamp versa", you can usually say which since a people were not consulted bef! ore to a project was proposed as well as to illustrate did not give sensitive as well as before consent, a authorities as well as dam-builders have been in no in front of to demand anything from a people.

Don't blame NGOs

Do not add insult to injury by accusing a Penans of being done use of by NGOs. This is a standard foolish reply by a authorities when strike with a fallout from their arrogant as well as underhanded conduct, as well as blaming someone else instead of owning up to their mistakes as well as making reparation. If which does not work, try a bully tactic by threatening arrest.

If a Penans have no constrained reason to erect a blockade, would they willingly suffer a hardships they have had to endure for over three weeks now? What is wrong with concerned groups display await for their associate citizens as well as lending a assisting hand?

If you hold which ! you have been our brothers' as well as sisters' keepers, you hold which whatever happens to a people of a land affects us as well as you must stand up for them. The land is all which a Penans have as well as they have been entitled to urge it. Do not forget which partner apportion Liwan Lagang have reported which they have valid reasons to be unhappy.

Why is it which a supervision is not willing to recompense them adequately for a drop of their lands, which have been additionally their livelihood as well as their heritage?

With a billions which a supervision is awaiting to have from a dam, you find it incomprehensible which they have been carrying ! such dif ficulty in doing a right thing by a people who have been done to scapegoat their homes, as well as instead have been right away employing threatening as well as bullying tactics opposite them.

As you have said time as well as again, a shift of supervision is what is required to stop a rot which has set in. A Pakatan Rakyat supervision will act fast to prevent further drop of a land as well as to ease a pang of a people.

BARU BIAN is state assemblyperson for Ba' Kelalan as well as Sarawak PKR chairperson.

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