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500 natives storm police station

Photo showing arrested native villagers is from
Sarawak Indigenous Community News website
KUCHING: Some 500 angry villagers with their children from Melikin and nearby longhouses in Serian and Simunjan stormed the Serian police station yesterday, demanding the release of five individuals who were detained on Sunday night for allegedly causing a fire.

The villagers learnt that the five – Sanjan Ambol, 58, Musit Ngawing, 52, Tuai Rumah Nyalu Tampa, 55, Samad Junna, 41, and Singa Unsit, 58, – were to be charged at the Serian district court. All five were villagers from Melikin, Danau Melikin and Ensebang Plaie.

The villagers first went to the Serian district office, but on hearing that they were still being detained at the Serian police station, they rushed there and demanded that the detainees be released immediately.

Jeffrey: Land disputes leading to violence

The Sabah government is yet to fully respond to the
people’s grievances on NCR land grabs.
PINANGAH: State Reform Party (STAR) has warned that the increasing number of land disputes in Sabah is showing signs of turning ugly and may eventually lead to violence if the government continues to turn a blind eye on them.

In his speech at a land rights demonstration here recently, Sabah STAR chairman Jeffrey Kitingan expressed his disappointment that the state government has been neglecting the people despite the fact that the problem has been happening for many years.

300 natives in north Sabah stage angry protest on land-grabs


PITAS, Sabah : More than 300 angry natives in the northern parts of Sabah particularly from Pitas and Kota Marudu staged a peaceful but powerful rally protest against the prevalent land-grabs in the northern area of Sabah - Kudat, Pitas, Kota Marudu and parts of Beluran, last saturday.

They claimed the land-grabs, some were backed by politicians from the ruling party, had resulted in bitter experience for thousands of them, many are now displaced and squatting in nearby villages as well as awaiting court orders begotten by big company with links.

Hosting the rally at Torong Soko in Pitas seaside overlooking the Marudu Bay was the surging State Reform Party (Star) who successfully applied and granted a police permit under the recently passed Peaceful Rally Act.

Victims of land-grabs pin hope in a lawyer

Sangkong (centre) flanked native vice chief Mudat Majupi (left)
and Ketua Kampung, Mogak Majupi explaining their predicament.

KOTA KINABALU : Families who were served with court notice late last year to move out in one month of "their" lands in Kampung Tangkarason, Beluran now pin their hope that the plantation company involved and the court would "grant" some mercy on them, knowing there is no where to go after this.

Leader of the group, Nulius Sangkong, 34, who managed to get court order for a stay said they never dreamed that this could happen to them as natives of Sabah after toiling the lands and living there since 1980s.

Natives gather in Kota Kinabalu March 9 to protest government over land-grabs and NCR

Dear Borneo Heralders,

There is a peaceful gathering by DAP at Penampang Padang today March 9, in protest of land-grabs incidents and NCR issues in Sabah. We re-published here UNDRIP, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for your perusal..



Bloody clashes looming over land grabs

KOTA KINABALU: Rampant land grabs in Sabah are making folk in rural areas restive with visible indications of impending violent clashes between the “new” owners and natives.

Warning of possible bloodshed over these “illegal” land grabs, United Borneo Front (UBF) chairman Jeffrey Kitingan has urged Chief Minister Musa Aman to intervene immediately and prevent the issue from boiling over.


Skandal Jabatan Tanah Dan Ukur

BANTAH......Karamah menunjukkan surat bantahan mengenai
tanah tersebut tetapi tidak menerima sebarang respon
daripada Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur.

Oleh : SHAIMON S JUMADI

KETUA Pemohon Tanah seluas 40 ekar di Kampung Sungai Sumpit, kawasan Nipah Tambisan, Tungku, Abdullah Hj Hamid yang mewakilkan kuasa kepada bapa mertuanya, Karamah Sajae (gambar) mendakwa bahawa Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur Kinabatangan melakukan penyelewengan dalam proses pengukuran tanah di kawasan tersebut.

Karamah mendakwa Pegawai Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur Negeri Sabah, Thomas Wong telah mengetuai kerja-kerja pengukuran di kawasan tanah yang bukan dipohon, tetapi tanah milik orang lain dan mereka mengukur tanah secara rambang; termasuk di atas meja mereka sahaja.


Land grabs: ‘Police colluding with company’

By Luke Rintod of FMT
Villagers in remote Sabah have accused police
of helping a company occupy their land.
KOTA KINABALU: The displacement of villagers is continuing unabated in remote corners of Sabah – out of the public eye despite claims to the contrary by the Barisan Nasional (BN) state government.

Yet another land-grab case has surfaced. This time, it is in Kampung Mapat and Kampung Mapad in Pitas.

The victims lodged a police report here yesterday claiming that police had assisted a private company, Syarikat Jayasama Sdn Bhd, alienate their NCR (native customary rights) land.


Villagers may seek revenge at ballot box

Time has not healed the anger of displaced Beluran villagers
whose houses were destroyed and crops poisoned by
Sabah Forestry officials.
KOTA KINABALU: An infamous incident in 2006 that saw 33 houses belonging to the Dusun and Sungei natives in Kampung Koiboton set alight by Sabah forest rangers has returned to haunt the Barisan Nasional leaders in Kota Marudu.

Long-serving MP, Dr Maximus Ongkili, and his immediate boss, Joseph Pairin Kitingan, the president of Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) may be treading on shaky ground in the district if they thought the overzealous actions of Forestry Department staff had nothing to do with them.


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