Report reveals rape of tribeswomen by loggers
By Survival International
The Sarawak state government has licensed the Penans land to logging and plantation companies that have devastated the rainforests the tribe rely on. A new report has exposed an environment of violence against tribeswomen in Borneo. According to the report, released by a coalition of Malaysian human rights groups called the Penan Support Group, there have been repeated cases of rape and sexual assault against Penan women by the loggers who are destroying the tribes forests.
They follow allegations by other Penan women in 2008, which the Malaysian government denied but was later forced to confirm.
The report condemns the Malaysian government for giving lucrative logging concessions on Penan land to private companies closely tied to the state government, resulting in dispossession, destruction, dislocation and impoverishment and an environment of violence which leaves Penan women and girls highly vulnerable.
The Sarawak state government has licensed the Penans land to logging and plantation companies that have devastated the rainforests the tribe rely on.
The Malaysian Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development has refuted the new allegations. The Chief Minister of Sarawak also denied the previous allegations of rape, saying they were lies and an attempt at sabotage. A government investigation later confirmed that the womens claims were true.
Officials have continued to dismiss the issue. When the BBC confronted Sarawaks Minister for Land Development with the statement of a teenage Penan rape victim, he said, They change their stories, and when they feel like it. Thats why I say the Penan are very good storytellers.
Survival Internationals director Stephen Corry said today, Logging has brought the Penan nothing but abuse, with rape, violence and hunger now comm! onplace. For the government to react by calling them 'storytellers', and pretending all this is 'progress' is appalling.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is due to visit some Penan villages on July 22.
Download the Penan Support Groups report
To read this story online: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/6246
The Sarawak state government has licensed the Penans land to logging and plantation companies that have devastated the rainforests the tribe rely on. A new report has exposed an environment of violence against tribeswomen in Borneo. According to the report, released by a coalition of Malaysian human rights groups called the Penan Support Group, there have been repeated cases of rape and sexual assault against Penan women by the loggers who are destroying the tribes forests.They follow allegations by other Penan women in 2008, which the Malaysian government denied but was later forced to confirm.
The report condemns the Malaysian government for giving lucrative logging concessions on Penan land to private companies closely tied to the state government, resulting in dispossession, destruction, dislocation and impoverishment and an environment of violence which leaves Penan women and girls highly vulnerable.
The Sarawak state government has licensed the Penans land to logging and plantation companies that have devastated the rainforests the tribe rely on.
The Malaysian Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development has refuted the new allegations. The Chief Minister of Sarawak also denied the previous allegations of rape, saying they were lies and an attempt at sabotage. A government investigation later confirmed that the womens claims were true.
Officials have continued to dismiss the issue. When the BBC confronted Sarawaks Minister for Land Development with the statement of a teenage Penan rape victim, he said, They change their stories, and when they feel like it. Thats why I say the Penan are very good storytellers.
Survival Internationals director Stephen Corry said today, Logging has brought the Penan nothing but abuse, with rape, violence and hunger now comm! onplace. For the government to react by calling them 'storytellers', and pretending all this is 'progress' is appalling.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is due to visit some Penan villages on July 22.
Download the Penan Support Groups report
To read this story online: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/6246
Ethnomedical Survey Of Plants Used By The Orang Asli In Kampung ...
9 Feb 2010 ... A total of 62 species of plants used by Orang Asli are described in this study based on ... Report Reveals Rape Of Tribeswomen By Loggers ...
indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?...orang-asli... - CachedReflections: The plight of the Malaysian Orang Asli and their way ...
Article: Still waiting for police response on meeting Penan rape ...
KUALA LUMPUR: A month has elapsed but the Centre for Orang Asli Concerns has ... to allow women police officers to interview the alleged Penan rape victims. ...
www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-36221926_ITM - CachedSelangor to gazette 25 orang asli villages following landmark decision
27 May 2010 ... Its Orang Asli Land Task Force chairman Elizabeth Wong said the ... Two men held over rape of at least five minors, Family fails to get ...
thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/27/nation/...sec... - CachedOrang Asli, Orang Asal, and Orang Atasan « Hornbill Unleashed
20 Mar 2010 ... The peaceful march on Putrajaya of 2000 Orang Asli, bearing banners, ....approach when confronted with the rapes of Penan girls by loggers. ...
hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/6142/ - CachedDevelopment, Law, and the Traditional life of the Orang Asli ...
Dengkil Orang Asli protest private development - Malaysiakini
19 Jun 2010 ... About 200 Orang Asli gathered at the Tanah Liat Pulasan Orang Aslisettlement in Dengkil .... The rape of decency and a society | JJ Ray ...
www.malaysiakini.com/news/135010 - Malaysia - CachedMalaysia The Importance of the Orang Asli in the Malayan Emergency ...
by AR Walker - 2009
Orang Asli. Thus, we may confidently look forward to the publication in future of ... 141-207; Richard Noone, Rape of the Dream People (London: ...
journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid...Muslim rape wave in Sweden
Dept: Orang asli was trying to kill tiger, not collect petai
9 Feb 2010 ... IPOH: The tiger which attacked an orang asli in Sungkai last week did so in ...Man held over rape of teen, Only some dive sites off-limits ...
www.thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/9/nation/... - Cached
Comments