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Forced eviction against international treaties!

12 August 2010 - 10:32am

Forced evictions are usually illegal under international law, yet they are
increasingly routine for many governments, assisted by international
institutions. Rather than helping governments justify evictions by
tinkering with relocation policies, institutions need to steer governments
towards true 'voluntarism'. Development projects need to 'sell' themselves
to the poor, not convince them to 'move out of the way', and any project
that can't is probably doomed to failure already. (KERWIN DATU)

Penang state government under the leadership of Lim Guan Eng has once again
failed the people especially on the eviction of slum residents. Lim Guan
Eng administration since the Kampong Buah Pala incident has abdicated its

Why should people bail out Government over its land blunder?

30 July 2009 - 11:48am

SOS(Save Ourselves)
Address: 62 Weld Quay(3rd floor), 10300 Penang.
Contact person: Ong BK (013-5900339)
Email: penangwatch@gmail.com
Web site: http://penangwatch.net

Press Release(30-07-09)

Police stopped screening of `Gadoh' at Kg Buah Pala

28 July 2009 - 1:40am

SB doing their dirty work to intimidate residents.SB doing their dirty work to intimidate residents.SB when the cemera is zomming in on them!SB when the cemera is zomming in on them!Give us a good smile lah-SB(Spoilt Brats)!Give us a good smile lah-SB(Spoilt Brats)!Another `shy' SB?Another `shy' SB?Kg Buah Pala elders spoke their tales of sell out by the local rep and state government.Kg Buah Pala elders spoke their tales of sell out by the local rep and state government.

 

Penang CM's 2 standards

21 July 2009 - 12:25pm

From: todayupdate.info@gmail.com

 
 

The two standards of Guan Eng

 
Politicians will always be politicians. They can say anything that suits their purpose for the moment and then switch wily nily when the tables turn. See what Guan had to say about the Bukit Cina case in a speech titled:
 
 ‘Vision 2020 Of Malaysia Being A Developed Nation Will Be Not Succeed If There Is No Clean Government, No Balanced Growth, No Human Resource Development And No Equitable Distribution Of Economic Benefits’
At The Save Bukit Cina 20th Anniversary Dinner on Nov 28, 2004

CM Lim, answer this before blaming others:

15 July 2009 - 7:17pm


Stop blaming previous administration for Kg Buah Pala: Teng

PENANG, July 15 — A former Penang state executive councillor today
slammed the state leadership for blaming the previous state leadership
over the issue of the Kampung Buah Pala land sale in Gelugor, when they
themselves finalised the matter last year.

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