KUCHING - About 200 Penans as well as Kenyahs were still manning a besiege they have mounted upon a entrance highway to a 944 MW Murum dam in a upper reaches of Batang Murum in Belaga district.
They started putting up a besiege upon Sept 26, preventing outrageous supply trucks as well as heavy machineries from passing through.
The group pronounced they will only let a trucks pass their besiege if Sarawak Energy arch executive officer Torstein Dale Sjotveit as well as a Sarawak authorities encounter them during a site as well as determine to their demands.
Sarawak Energy is a agency in charge of a construction of a dam as well as physical phenomenon era in a state.
Save Rivers Sarawak Network (SAVE Rivers) personality Peter Kallang, when contacted yesterday, pronounced a military have sent their crew to a besiege site, advising a locals to idle a blockade.
"From what I have been informed, a locals have been not starting to idle a besiege until their final have been met," he said.
SAVE Rivers, a Miri-based non-governmental organisation, has been giving dignified as well as alternative await to a natives.
"We sent food reserve to them yesterday after they called us to say which they run out of food," he said.
The 141mhigh RM4 billion Murum dam, underneath construction by China's Three Gorges Corporation, affects during least 1,400 people from a ethnic groups of a Western Penan as well as a Kenyah.
It will start flooding roughly 250 sq km of rainforest as well as farmland once it is finished by early 2013.
! The loca ls have presented an open chit to a authorities to compromise tentative issues concerning their rights to land, forest as well as a involuntary resettlement.
They have been disturbed they may humour a similar predestine as beside communities who were forcefully displaced by a Bakun dam project in 1998 detriment of livelihood, poverty as well as detriment of culture.
-thesundaily
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