Malaysia Must Stop the Violence Against Their Rainforests

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GlenBarry

Sunday, July 09, 2006 4:13 PM

ACTION ALERT

 

Malaysia Must Stop the Violence Against the Penan and Logging of

Their Rainforests

 

By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.

http://www.rainforestportal.org/

July 9, 2006

 

TAKE ACTION

Insist Malaysian authorities respect native customary land

rights and boundaries of Penan's last remaining ancestral

rainforest reserves

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=penan

 

Malaysia's indigenous Penan peoples are again resorting to

logging road blockades to protect their native customary land

rights and last remaining ancestral rainforest reserves. Logging

workers of Malaysian Interhill logging have already dismantled a

Penan logging road blockade near Ba Abang in the Middle Baram

region of Sarawak on the Island of Borneo. Now the Police and

Federal Reserve Unit are reportedly moving into the Baram region

to break at the behest of Samling logging a long-standing second

blockade erected by the Penan to protect the boundaries of their

last remaining large rainforest expanse. There exists great

potential yet again in Sarawak for deadly violence against

indigenous peoples striving to protect their way of life and

rainforest habitats. And Malaysia's government must be held

accountable for the conduct of Malaysian logging companies there

and throughout the world.