Baram Dam blockade completes 100 days
Published: Feb 1, 2014 9:23 AM | Updated: Feb 5, 2014 11:01 AM
A group of indigenous people blocking the proposed site of the controversial Baram Dam project in Sarawak completed 100 days of their protest on Thursday, Jan 30, during which they prevented all heavy machinery work at the site.
Statements by Bruno Manser Fund and the Save Sarawak Rivers Network (Save Rivers) said hundreds of villagers completed the 100 days of the blockade at two important sites of the project.
They are continuing the blockade as the dam will displace 20,000 natives.
A group of indigenous people blocking the proposed site of the controversial Baram Dam project in Sarawak completed 100 days of their protest on Thursday, Jan 30, during which they prevented all heavy machinery work at the site.
Statements by Bruno Manser Fund and the Save Sarawak Rivers Network (Save Rivers) said hundreds of villagers completed the 100 days of the blockade at two important sites of the project.
The blockade sites are Km15 and Long Lama, where villagers manned the sites on a rotation basis.
Save Rivers chairperson Peter Kallang said 20,000 villagers from 26 villagers would be displaced should the project go ahead.
Kallang said some of the tents at the blockade sites have been damaged by the weather and the villagers were repairing the tents as they intend to continue with the blockades.
He said a group of officers from Sarawak Energy Bhd, the operator of the dam, offered money to the blockade group during Christmas last year but were turned down.
"Giving money and food is what Sarawak Energy calls consultation," Kallang said, adding that no BN representative has so far engaged with the villagers to learn about their plight.
Statements by Bruno Manser Fund and the Save Sarawak Rivers Network (Save Rivers) said hundreds of villagers completed the 100 days of the blockade at two important sites of the project.
The blockade sites are Km15 and Long Lama, where villagers manned the sites on a rotation basis.Save Rivers chairperson Peter Kallang said 20,000 villagers from 26 villagers would be displaced should the project go ahead.
Kallang said some of the tents at the blockade sites have been damaged by the weather and the villagers were repairing the tents as they intend to continue with the blockades.
He said a group of officers from Sarawak Energy Bhd, the operator of the dam, offered money to the blockade group during Christmas last year but were turned down.
"Giving money and food is what Sarawak Energy calls consultation," Kallang said, adding that no BN representative has so far engaged with the villagers to learn about their plight.
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