For the first time the orang asli groups took to the streets to voice out their rights. And I don't know what to say if BN still can't see their weaknesses after being at the helm for of the country's administration.
KUALA LUMPUR: Police yesterday stopped a march by a group of indigenous people seeking greater protection of their rights.
Some 150 members of the Indigenous Peoples Network of Malaysia (JOAS) had planned to go to Istana Negara to hand over a memorandum to the king.
The memorandum was to urge the government to honour the United Nations Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous People (DRIP), to which Malaysia is a signatory.
Their demands included the establishment of an Orang Asli native court in Peninsular Malaysia, the repeal of laws which marginalise the Orang Asal or indigenous people and an end to the government's practise of leasing native customary rights land without consulting native communities. - NST.
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