Back in childhood days when a scoop of your vanilla-flavoured ice-cream was nudged by someone, obviously you'd let it passed. Even when you lost in the feet of a courageous defeat, still you can smile. Well, at least, as they said, that's what gentlemen do. But, what about if you were to lodge a police report that you've been assaulted by a group of hooligans and instead you yourself is being arrested? Sadly to say but it's the truth. Read here.
My view is simple. Any sane person wouldn't take the risks of beating himself nearly to death just to set up pranks in the police station. Better still, April's Fool is over! Assuming all these are true, the real question is, what's happening to our enforcement authorities? Something is rotten here in The Land of Hornbills.
Talking about the issue of land and the natives is like chicken and egg story. They cannot be separated and always come together. That shows how important both elements to each other. Back to the days where rules and regulations were just innuendos, lands were entitled to those who discovered them first. They were no land ordinance, specific rulings and any legal documents needed to verify one's land. It's as easy as this; you have a piece of land, you look after it, toiling each day with diligence and sorrow hoping for the best for the fertile soil to bear fruits of your labors, then you are the landlord. Since then, it's been passed down through generations after another. For Native Customary Rights Land (NCR) read here.
The point is, for Heaven's sake, what's wrong with someone whose doing his every day chores in HIS LAND just to be intimidated by group of gangsters and upon lodging police report being arrested himself? That's incredibly funny and illogical. For the natives of Sarawak, their lands mean everything. They are not just mere lands, they are the source of daily life. They are sacred and the natives have rights to their lands, without doubts. Yet, some people disowned these rights? But hey, where's our politicians again at this particular time or did we ever have one though? Care to explain Minister? While their effort in aiding less fortunate people in Haiti are commendable but couldn't they care more for the plights of their own people? I think we seriously need an election.
Somehow, I recalled my grandpa used to say "In the end, unless we fight for our rights, we'll be doomed where the natives will be hewers of wood and drawers of water, becoming coolies in our own country"
Till the next postings.
My view is simple. Any sane person wouldn't take the risks of beating himself nearly to death just to set up pranks in the police station. Better still, April's Fool is over! Assuming all these are true, the real question is, what's happening to our enforcement authorities? Something is rotten here in The Land of Hornbills.
Talking about the issue of land and the natives is like chicken and egg story. They cannot be separated and always come together. That shows how important both elements to each other. Back to the days where rules and regulations were just innuendos, lands were entitled to those who discovered them first. They were no land ordinance, specific rulings and any legal documents needed to verify one's land. It's as easy as this; you have a piece of land, you look after it, toiling each day with diligence and sorrow hoping for the best for the fertile soil to bear fruits of your labors, then you are the landlord. Since then, it's been passed down through generations after another. For Native Customary Rights Land (NCR) read here.
The point is, for Heaven's sake, what's wrong with someone whose doing his every day chores in HIS LAND just to be intimidated by group of gangsters and upon lodging police report being arrested himself? That's incredibly funny and illogical. For the natives of Sarawak, their lands mean everything. They are not just mere lands, they are the source of daily life. They are sacred and the natives have rights to their lands, without doubts. Yet, some people disowned these rights? But hey, where's our politicians again at this particular time or did we ever have one though? Care to explain Minister? While their effort in aiding less fortunate people in Haiti are commendable but couldn't they care more for the plights of their own people? I think we seriously need an election.
Somehow, I recalled my grandpa used to say "In the end, unless we fight for our rights, we'll be doomed where the natives will be hewers of wood and drawers of water, becoming coolies in our own country"
Till the next postings.
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