YOURSAY | ‘The Orang Asli are the tuans, and not anyone else.’

G25: As we did Bosnians, M'sia must champion Rohingya

Anonymous #33227154: Why are all the Muslim groups here only championing the Rohingyas instead of fellow bumiputera, the Orang Asli?

Our Orang Asli are suffering, and hardly any of our authorities care about them. Don't try to play hero internationally and ignore the exploitation of the Orang Asli.

MA: Yes, the G25 should also spare a thought for the subtle persecution happening in our own backyard.

I am talking about the Orang Asli people near Gua Musang, Kelantan. They have been severely victimised and systematically removed from their ancestral homes.

Have our state or federal governments accorded these indigenous people of Malaysia their rights and freedoms? Their cry for a right to live peacefully, amid all the challenges they face, is a shame for all Malaysians.

The Analyser: Once again, the piecemeal G25 speaketh unto the masses. I wonder what they think they will achieve by their on-again/off-again - usually with an underlying Islamic message - approach to Malaysia's problems.

As is usually the case, they avoid all the real issues and concentrate on the fringes. I wonder how many of the 350 Bosnian refugees who had been resettled in Malaysia are still here, and what their status is?

After arrests, Orang Asli vow more blockades in Gua Musang

Anonymous #33227154 The Orang Asli are the original bumiputera of our land, but they have little rights and are being bullied like the Rohingyas in Myanmar.

We should stand up for the Orang Asli and save them, instead of shouting to save the Rohingya. We should put our priorities right and not be hypocrites.

Dinosaur: Please respect the Orang Asli's rights to live their lives. They are innocent people with very simple lives, if that is to be taken away, they don't have a place under the sun.

What a pity these simple peace-loving people are being bullied by the authorities so as to safeguard one's interest.

Anubis: Those of feudal mentality just can't accept that its days of absolute authority over the "simple" folk are long over.

New Dawn: It seems like the Rohingya are more important than Orang Asli to some in our country.

Director: Kelantan forestry dept operation on blockade not cruel

Anonymous #19098644: The original sons of the soil are being displaced by the outsiders who seize their land, lay waste the forest and the rivers and now charge them with breaking the law for defending their land and their homes.

Both Umno and PAS are the same in oppressing the rakyat and making use of them to try and seize power or remain in power for their selfish, greedy reasons.

Shovelnose: If you think you're not ruling with an iron-fist and interpreting the laws of the land with an even hand, you should have an open book in terms of the award of such licences to rape the country's natural resources.

Has a proper environmental report even been carried out, not one of those padded ones for the exploitation from the start.

PAS, you have a lot to answer for, if not here on earth, then to your maker.

Demi Rakyat: Please bear in mind that the land belongs to the Orang Asli. They are the tuans, and not anyone else.

Retnam: Perhaps they could just tell the Orang Asli, "If you don't like Malaysia, go back to your own country."

Siti Kasim has ulterior motive against Kelantan, says PAS leader

Tok Karut: Lawyer Siti Kasim is a member of the Bar. If PAS has a real complaint with regards to her professionalism, they can write to the Bar, otherwise PAS' accusations and allegations are nonsensical and political in nature.

So casting aspersions is not fitnah in your books, PAS? Clearly, you are a party that has lost its moorings.

SusahKes: PAS central committee member Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor said, "The real enemy in the logging industry are those who are corrupt, abuse their power and break the laws."

And who - or which group of people - are you referring to, Sanusi? Shall we ask your party president Abdul Hadi Awang?

Anonymous #19098644: Who gave the licence to the loggers in the first case? The PAS government in Kelantan, and the Umno-BN governments in Kedah, Sabah and Sarawak.

For the sake of money, PAS has joined Umno in selling off the land and forests belonging to the original bumiputera of the land, the Orang Asli.

Anonymous 2408551459232350: Not only Siti Kasim, most of us have the same agenda.

Please concentrate on your religious struggle and leave politics alone. After ruling Kelantan for so many years, what have you achieved, PAS?

Riding on Reformasi wave of the late 1990s, Hadi got the chance to govern Terengganu, and he couldn't even defend the state.

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