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Land rights
A number of Penan villages have filed land rights claims within the Malaysian courts for areas over which Samling holds logging concessions. One among these circumstances has been pending within the courts since 1998. The corporate claims on its web site that it ‘function[s] throughout the confines of the regulation which the federal government prescribes,’ and that within the authorized disputes during which it’s concerned, ‘the true subject considerations the federal government and the native communities’. Nevertheless, Samling government James Ho stated in an interview on Swiss tv in 2007, ‘The Penan haven’t any rights to the forest.’
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Samling is making an attempt to log all of the timber in our forest. Once they enter the realm we’ll lose every little thing.Penan man, Lengthy Kerong
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A report launched in September 2009 by the Malaysian Ministry for Girls, Household and Group Improvement verified allegations that Penan girls and women had been raped by logging firm staff. Samling staff have been amongst these whom the Penan had accused of abuse. The Penan suspect that group chief Kelesau Naan, who disappeared in October 2007 and was later discovered lifeless, could have been killed on account of his opposition to Samling’s logging actions. The corporate additionally has operations in Peninsular Malaysia, China, New Zealand, Australia and Guyana.
From Survival’s web site
‘Authorities report confirms Penan women have been raped by loggers’ ‘Logging protests unfold in Borneo as nomads block roads’ The Penan Progress Can Kill report
From the net
Samling web site
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