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8 tribesmen arrested in Borneo dam protest

8.11.13

8 tribesmen arrested in Borneo dam protest: According to a report from the AFP, police arrested eight Penan protesters and dismantled barriers that had been blockading a road to the Murum dam site. The Penan are demanding greater compensation for being displaced by the $1.3 billion dam, which will flood 245 square kilometers of land. The Penan complain they are not be adequately compensated for loss of their villages, farmland, and livelihoods.

Raymond Abin, an activist with Save Sarawak's Rivers Network, a group that is fighting plans for more than a dozen dams in Sarawak, told the AFP the arrests are an intimidation tactic.

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