How Taib Family’s Palm Oil Thugs Enforce ‘Rough Justice’
Warning ‘VIOLENT CONTENT’ but you should view it ……
Warning ‘VIOLENT CONTENT’ but you should view it ……
This Pastor for years championed protests and police reports against the Mulu headmen and companies logging community lands. So, how did he suddenly become the poster boy for the timber barons citing ‘foreign interference’?…….
Once again local people seeking to benefit from their own lands have found themselves ultimately combatted by brute force, mediated by ‘police’ hired by the plantation company in question……
The case is due to be referred to the Deputy Public Prosecutor next week, who will then order No Further Action, on the official recommendation of the MACC. ….
The scale of Malaysia’s vice protection racket takes on new proportions as we reveal the Head of CID was also calling alleged ringleader Gopi back! …….
Sarawak Report demonstrated last month that the IGP himself, his son and his brother in law had all been in regular contact with the arrested suspected gangster ‘Gopi’, along with several of his top cops. Khalid admitted the information was true but he has refuted concerns about the connection, threatening Sarawak Report he could not answer for its safety if the Editor came to KL …..
The PMO has demanded the MACC ‘back off’ their vice investigation as it hits against top cops. However, evidence shows that not only the IGP but a whole network of his closest senior officers were in regular phone contact with the alleged ringmaster of Malaccas’s vice protection rackets……
Pascal Najadi says he has spoken to a new witnesses with evidence relating to his father’s murder and asks again why the Royal Malaysia Police have ceased enquries into the motives behind the assasination of the AmBank founder, who “said too much”…….
As UMNO is now openly drafted in to support the Red Shirts, does Najib plan to create chaos on Saturday, so he can invoke his new ‘National Security Act?’….
Why had the native community been ignored, when there was a clear violation of their lands and why were these three ‘police officers’ and thugs allowed to arrive shooting guns and intimidating landowners in such a fashion? ….
The native land rights hero and opposition politician Bill Kayong was gunned down in broad daylight last month in Miri. We can reveal that a boss of the company he had been fighting Tung Huat Plantation is wanted over his murder…
Sarawak Report can reveal that Sarawak’s biggest on-going crime mystery has a relative answer. That is to say, the Serian District Police Chief, Mohd Jamali Umi, turns out to be a close relative of the Planning Minister Awang Tengah, who controls one of the companies controversially logging the area of Melikin. Numerous insiders have now confirmed
Sarawak Report can reveal that four head gangsters, who were caught after the discovery of an enormous illegal arms cache at the disputed logging and plantation concessions at Melikin, were freed by police on instructions from ministers! Since their release there has been a further series of vicious attacks on local people, whom the
Taib Mahmud has complained that Sarawak is in the ‘media spotlight’ after years of ‘obscurity’. But, thanks to that obscurity and his own media blackout, gangsterism has been allowed to flourish unreported against the native people of the state. For years these organised thugs have waged systematic violence against rural communities, in order to enforce the
As news pours in about the enormous scale of attempted vote-buying currently underway in Sarawak, we can reveal more horrifying details from the investigation by Malaysia’s human rights commission Suhakam. In particular, the criminal methods used by Taib’s government and cronies to prize away valuable lands from its native people. These methods include violence, coercion
This weekend in Melikin police stood by and watched as a bulldozer destroyed the public bridge that had been built by the state to give access to the local people. It was an act of revenge by loggers, who are angry that these people have been trying to protect their Native Customary Lands from being
Five campaigners from Melikin in Balai Ringen were arrested last week after false accusations were made against them by a plantation company. They were later released without charge. We can reveal that the owners of the companies that are grabbing their land are two of Taib Mahmud’s top Ministers!
Fear of gangsters is widespread in Sarawak and with good reason. These are the operators outside the law who enforce the greedy land grabs and logging concessions handed out by Taib to his cronies. By using gangsters, Taib and his business partners avoid being directly implicated and can pretend to have nothing to do with
We filmed with the Boyerts and came to like and respect them. We now present that story as a tribute to their bravery in speaking out.
The shocking pictures of Minggat Anak Nyakin and his son Juan Anak Minggat speak volumes about the problems in Sarawak. The two men were viciously attacked on the night of February 14th by illegal loggers, who have been plundering their lands for years unhindered. Minggat was left for dead on the steps of the company manager’s office [….]
The once proud, well-trained Sarawak police force are now mere lackeys of the timber companies, as events yesterday make only too obvious. The Penan, who have been erecting peaceful jungle blockades in protest at the savage destruction of their hereditory lands, were yesterday confronted in Long Sebayang, Limbang by gun-waving policemen. They were acting on behalf of