SUHAKAM want incident probed
Kota Marudu: The Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) has proposed an open investigation into the house burning case in Kampung Kaiboton 1, Beluran, soonest possible. Suhakam commissioner Datuk Siva Subramaniam said the investigation was important because burning of the villagers' houses was an inhumane and uncivilised act.
"The responsible persons should have sought peaceful means to solve their problems, especially since the house owners were poor people," he said after visiting the village involved which was said to be in the Paitan forest reserve.
He was accompanied by Suhakam Deputy Chairman Tan Sri Simon Sipaun. Siva said the burning of houses belonging to citizens had not happened in democratic countries and he regarded the case as very serious. "Even foreign migrants would be notified if their squatter homes were to be demolished.
"The residents of Kampung Kaiboton 1, Beluran, Sabah, will never forget the Oct. 3 incident last year where 20 of their houses were burned, believed to be by the staff of the Sabah Forestry Department," he added. - Bernama
"The responsible persons should have sought peaceful means to solve their problems, especially since the house owners were poor people," he said after visiting the village involved which was said to be in the Paitan forest reserve.
He was accompanied by Suhakam Deputy Chairman Tan Sri Simon Sipaun. Siva said the burning of houses belonging to citizens had not happened in democratic countries and he regarded the case as very serious. "Even foreign migrants would be notified if their squatter homes were to be demolished.
"The residents of Kampung Kaiboton 1, Beluran, Sabah, will never forget the Oct. 3 incident last year where 20 of their houses were burned, believed to be by the staff of the Sabah Forestry Department," he added. - Bernama
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