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Thursday, August 7, 2014

'Natives denied promised monthly food supplies'


The Penan and Kenyah indigenous communities near the Murum dam have not been given RM600 worth of monthly food supplies, among a host of other resettlement promises, the Bar Council has claimed today.

Council vice-president Steven Thiru (right) said this was what Bar Council found following a trip to Murum through its Orang Asli Rights and Human Rights Committee in May this year.
                                  
The communities were displaced from their original settlements due to the Sarawak government's decision to construct the Murum dam.

Steven, in a statement, said the situation on the ground "differs significantly" from the "seemingly positive statements" made by the Malaysian government regarding the resettlement and rights of the indigenous people.

The Bar Council listed seven major areas of concern, among which is that the promise of land and furnishing, as part of the resettlement exercise, have also allegedly not been fufilled.

"The Penan and Kenyah communities are being deprived of the provision in full of the promised monthly food supplies of RM600 per month per household..

"No genuine attempt has been made to explain the shortfall, nor has the shortfall been rectified," the statement said.

It also said that a promised land allocation of 15 hectares has yet to materialise.

[More to follow]

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