[Onthebarricades] Fw: [stateyourcause] Four arrested in Borneo

[Andy]

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Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 4:41 PM
Subject: [stateyourcause] Four arrested in Borneo


ELP Information Request Bulletin (21/04/07)

Dear friends

Does anyone have any further information about the recent arrests of four 
Borneo Tribesmen arrested for allegedly torching a logging camp?

All and any information would be gratefully received.

Below is an article, about the arrests, which was published in a British 
mainstream newspaper.

ELP Support Network


>http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6574008,00.html
>
>4 Borneo Tribesmen Held in Logging Fire
>
>Friday April 20, 2007 4:46 PM
>By SEAN YOONG
>Associated Press Writer
>
>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Four members of a Borneo tribe are accused
>of torching a logging camp in a region home to one of the world's oldest
>rain forests, officials said Friday.
>
>The arrests illustrate frustrations among native communities in
>Malaysia's Sarawak state over what environmentalists describe as
>increasing threats posed by the timber and palm oil industries.
>
>On Tuesday, police detained four Iban tribe members who are suspected of
>torching camps belonging to local timber firm Kotasar on April 12, said
>Nicholas Mujah, secretary general of the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association.
>
>``They were believed to have been upset because the company entered the
>area and destroyed their fruit and rubber tree gardens,'' Mujah told The
>Associated Press.
>
>Mujah said the firm had the Sarawak government's approval to operate on
>state-owned land in Silantek district. However, indigenous tribes have
>inhabited the area for many generations and consider it ancestral 
>territory.
>
>The men could be charged in court with arson as early as next week, said
>Mat Jusoh Muhamad, a district police chief.
>
>No one was injured in the fire, which razed three mobile camps, because
>the suspects had ordered Kotasar's employees to leave the camps before
>torching them, Mat Jusoh said.
>
>``This case reminds us that our rights have been deleted as far as the
>law is concerned,'' said Mujah, whose group lobbies on behalf of the
>Iban people. ``Hundreds of loggers trespass on what should rightfully be
>native land in Sarawak.''
>
>Timber has been Sarawak's main economic engine since the early 1980s.
>The state exported about $1.8 billion worth of timber in 2005, according
>to government statistics.
>
>Conservationists say that badly controlled logging and land clearing for
>palm oil estates is depriving indigenous people of land for farming and
>hunting, and that such developments have critically endangered several
>plant and animal species in Borneo.

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