Happy Father’s Day, Datuk Seri Shahrizat
By Chee How (on Sunday, June 21)
It’s Father’s Day today!
Unfortunately, this otherwise wonderful week was ruined by the Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil. Speaking to reporters in Parliament, the Minister was noncommittal about the findings of a task force that was set up to investigate reports of sexual violations against Penan girls and women.
What is wrong with the Minister? What is wrong with the government?
It was almost a year ago when Bruno Manser Foundation first issued a statement condemning workers employed in the logging companies of rape and sexual abuses of young Penan girls in the remote Baram region in Sarawak.
A Semenanjung based Star reporter then ventured into the Penan settlements and confirmed the eerie allegations of hideous criminal acts. ( I Penan girls claim abuse II Against their will III Violated by loggers IV A neglected people )
While the Sarawak State Government, SUHAKAM and Malaysian Police all declared their intents to launch full investigation into the matter, it was the former Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen who finally commissioned and despatched a task force to Baram in November 2008.
It has been 7 months since the task force completed its investigations into allegations of sexual abuses against the Penan young girls and women in the interiors of Sarawak infested by logging activities, the task force report was withheld.
Read more at: http://hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/2033/#more-2033
