See Chee How who visited the Bengoh village fired back to YB Jerip Susil who claimed that the new Bengoh villages would contaminate the Bengoh dam meant for supplying drinking water to Kuching. Good arguement to compare with the existing dam. In general the Indegenous people always face the unfair accusation that they, if allowed into national forest reserve or conservation areas, would contaminated the areas like any other human settlement, forgetting that these people have the least `footprint’ among all human settlements and their right to their ancestral lands should not be totally taken away. Accusing them of contamination is a big joke -with the fingers coming from the big time contaminators! Photo from Ann Ann C.j.teo
The refutation as reported by Borneo Post is here:
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