Crime fighting

Statistics for water meter theft for the year 2009 in major towns and cities in Sarawak:

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Miri ranks first in amount of reported case.

Source: United Daily News

Note: The costs for replacement of water meters are RM65 +/- each.

Bruneian Woman Victim Of Smash Gang In Miri

Last Updated on Monday, 16 November 2009 09:33 Written by Rosli Abidin Yahya Monday, 16 November 2009 08:09

Bandar Seri Begawan - Travellers to Miri are told to bi extra vigilant after another car owned by Bruneian had its side screen smashed wit] a blunt object.

A handbag was stolen from the car by an unidentified man who ran towards his partner waiting on a motorbike in front o the victim's car.

The incident happened in front of shop houses near a fast-food restaurant at 8 pm last week.

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My take :

If there has got to be one word to describe this, it's "consistency".

A 22-year-old Penan woman has lodged a police report claiming that she was tricked into going to Kuala Lumpur and telling the police that she had been raped by a logger.

The woman, from Long Item, said two men approached her at home last October and offered to bring her to Kuala Lumpur to seek treatment for her daughter, who was ill at the time.

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Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) said there was a strong possibility that some Penan women from Ulu Baram who were said to have been raped by loggers were living under tremendous pressure.

SAM field officer for Sarawak said the women might have been pressured to make public statements that they have not been raped or victimised.

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My take:
So which is it?? There's always things happening like this when the cases are huge - claims of one thing and suddenly another claim that it wasn't true, it was all a conspiracy.

This is a follow up to the previous news.

Rape of Penan women did occur

It has been confirmed that Penan girls and women were raped and molested by timber company workers in Sarawak’s Ulu Baram district.

A special committee, set up by the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, revealed that sexual abuses against Penan women and girls by timber workers as reported by The Star last year did take place in the Baram district.

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Widespread killing of primates in Sarawak

MIRI: Native folks and some city dwellers are slaughtering primates – in some cases mother and baby – to have them as exotic meat which is said to ‘‘very tasty”.

These practices are widespread and despite repeated complaints and reports to the State Wildlife Department and State Forestry Department, it seems to be getting worse.

In northern Sarawak, the killing of primates has become a “normal” practice in rural longhouses.

....When The Star reported a case of a native trader selling a monkey in a small cage near the city bus station to a Miri Wildlife Department investigating officer, his response was: “I am off today. I will tell my boss about it.”

The next day, when asked what had happened to the case and why no enforcement officers showed up at the scene, this investigating officer replied: “I don’t know”.

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It seems that no one has learned a lesson from the last episode, (see "Tycoons buying endangered animals as 'status symbols'").

Typical of nonchalant attitude of authorities, cases are "left forgotten" and famous words uttered, "I don't know".