Gangster State

How Taib Family’s Palm Oil Thugs Enforce ‘Rough Justice’

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Thug Rule In Sarawak

Once again local people seeking to benefit from their own lands have found themselves ultimately combatted by brute force, mediated by ‘police’ hired by the plantation company in question……

Gopi’s Police Network – More Shocking Connections Identified From Gangster Suspect’s Call List MAJOR EXCLUSIVE

Sarawak Report demonstrated last month that the IGP himself, his son and his brother in law had all been in regular contact with the arrested suspected gangster ‘Gopi’, along with several of his top cops. Khalid admitted the information was true but he has refuted concerns about the connection, threatening Sarawak Report he could not answer for its safety if the Editor came to KL …..

Ministers Ordered Police To Free Crony Gangsters – EXCLUSIVE!

  Sarawak Report can reveal that four head gangsters, who were caught after the discovery of an enormous illegal arms cache at the disputed logging and plantation concessions at Melikin, were freed by police on instructions from ministers! Since their release there has been a further series of vicious attacks on local people, whom the

Spotlight On Melikin – How Gangsterism And Politics Mix In Sarawak..

Taib Mahmud has complained that Sarawak is in the ‘media spotlight’ after years of ‘obscurity’. But, thanks to that obscurity and his own media blackout, gangsterism has been allowed to flourish unreported against the native people of the state. For years these organised thugs have waged systematic violence against rural communities, in order to enforce the

Governed By Gangsters! – More Outrage In Melikin

This weekend in Melikin police stood by and watched as a bulldozer destroyed the public bridge that had been built by the state to give access to the local people. It was an act of revenge by loggers, who are angry that these people have been trying to protect their Native Customary Lands from being

Gangster State!

Five campaigners from Melikin in Balai Ringen were arrested last week after false accusations were made against them by a plantation company. They were later released without charge. We can reveal that the owners of the companies that are grabbing their land are two of Taib Mahmud’s top Ministers!

What Justice For The Victims Of Sarawak’s Timber Gangs?

Fear of gangsters is widespread in Sarawak and with good reason.  These are the operators outside the law who enforce the greedy land grabs and logging concessions handed out by Taib to his cronies. By using gangsters, Taib and his business partners avoid being directly implicated and can pretend to have nothing to do with

Gang Rule In Sarawak

The shocking pictures of Minggat Anak Nyakin and his son Juan Anak Minggat speak volumes about the problems in Sarawak. The two men were viciously attacked on the night of February 14th by illegal loggers, who have been plundering their lands for years unhindered. Minggat was left for dead on the steps of the company manager’s office [….]

Police Gangsters

The once proud, well-trained Sarawak police force are now mere lackeys of the timber companies, as events yesterday make only too obvious. The Penan, who have been erecting peaceful jungle blockades in protest at the savage destruction of their hereditory lands,  were yesterday confronted in Long Sebayang,  Limbang by gun-waving policemen.  They were acting on behalf of

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