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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Photo from Buah Pala

Update on Kg.Buah Pala Aug19,09 12.19am

YB Rayer as the assemblyman for Seri Delima does not bothered to visit or even cared about the villagers of Kg.Buah Pala even when his house is less than 1km from Kg.Buah Pala, he also threaten to sue the villagers when we are in the pain and suffering! What a cold hearted Adun are you Rayer?

A generous malay lady Y.B.DATO' HAMIDAH BINTI OSMAN, Ahli Majlis Mesyuarat Kerajaan Negeri Perak visited the villagers with her advise and encouragements at 12.32am! Shame on all the Indian Ministers, Aduns, MPs,Wanita, Puteri, Pemuda, Putera and all the ball carriers! that does'nt bother about the poor villagers of Kg.Buah Pala. Please dont come here and give all the grandmother stories to gain support at the last moment and claim to the public that it is because of you we gain victory! We will win and we will fight to the maximum! We will never give up! claimed the villagers! Lim Guan Eng as the Chief Minister of a state has to think about the welfare of its people and not just think about raping the Nature and supporting the developer in the interest of Money and Business. Lim Guan Eng must not also give importance the race based business and come all out for the people of all race! Personally I think Lim Guan Eng has a serious National agenda with all his acts which is very doubtful!

Why Prof.Ramasamy conviencing the Villagers to sign the contract with Nusmetro? Ramasamy is working for Nusmetro or the State Government of Penang. This is the fact! What is the interest for Ramasamy to get involve in the Nusmetro's projects? Why 2nd Chief Minister of a State working for a Developer's company and putting so much of efforts there?

Where will the villagers go if our house is demolished now? We will loose our basic rights of Humans! What will we do for a living, and how can we pay our rentals if we were chased out of our Heritage Village without any compensation? All the promises, such as the 2storey houses are gimick and no proper documentation and agreements has been given to the villagers. We want justice!!!

Conscious & Unconscious

Rwindraj@Cryingvoices

Update on Kg.Buah Pala, 18Aug2009- 9.09pm

Mr.Pitchay A/L M.Chinniah came to the Village to discuss with the villagers about the possible ways to overcome the problems faced by them. There are many issues discussed in the meeting such as investigating on who is behind the plot of the Land Sale and possible influenced politicians to have some agenda in this issue.

Mr.Tharmaraj, Mr.Steven and the committe members having open discussion with Mr.Pitchay.more updates soon..

High Chaparral Villagers..

Mr.Salligan born in 1951 in Kg.Buah Pala when this area is surrounded with estates and the nearest Town (Georgetown) is about 4 miles away. His mother Mdm.Govindamal born in Penang too..

When i was a young boy, this village is exactly with the same structure as it is now, the location of the houses and the cowshed is in the same location as it is now too. Except for the road, which was only a gravel road not tarred, Electricity facilities was not available until late 60s. and the only water source for daily activities was from the well around this area, almost every house here has a well. According to Mr.Salligan there was a natural Underwater source that has made them survive and High Chaparral was the main water source for the entire area here. Latest was in the year 1990, there was a shortage of water in the surrounding areas and High Chaparral water source was the survival factor at that time.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Kg.Buah Pala case hearing 21st Aug 2009...

The Federal Court In Putrajaya today announced that the case on Kg.Buah Pala will proceed on the 21st Aug 2009 in Putrajaya Federal Court. The Villagers are happy that the case will be heard despite the turn down in the last case in the same court. We only want Justice to prevail and we are not demanding more than what we deserve! says the villagers!
One of the older villager has said that although this is a small village with only 65 families, we are struggling for our rights and backed by the communities in Malaysia and througout the world because this Land that has been given by Late Mr.Brown under the Housing Trust for the Indian settlement for the services to the Brown Estate before Independence.
Rwindraj@Cryingvoices..

Hakmilik Sementara Buah Pala Document

PLEASE REFER TO THE RESTRICTION/SEKATAN-SEKATAN KEPENTINGAN. ( Click on the Image to make it larger)

Kg.Buah Pala Villagers Discussion with Lawyer 17th Aug 2009

A discussion is going on at this time 2139hrs, in the middle of the village meeting spot. Details to be addded soon...

Mr.Darshan has spoken about all the legal terms and stressed that the Villagers has all the rights to resist or to disallow the Demolition team to come in the house since they have no right to claim, demolish or chase you out of your home!

Explanation on the ways to prevent injustice to the people of the Kg.Buah Pala..

Monday, August 17, 2009

Questions for Lim Guan Eng

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Reporters rushed to the Demonstrators.

Reporters rushed for the updates from the Demonstrators in the Demonstration by the Kg.Buah Pala villagers at Butterworth Terminal area. Speaking to the press members yesterday, Mr.Maran, one of the advisor for the commitee said ; There are a total of 4 Indian aduns in Penang but they are more worried for the Pig farms and Graveyard than the plight and sufferings of the villagers in Kg. Buah Pala. If Kg.Buah Pala fall, then the DAP regime in the state will fall too, he said it in the stern voice, I feel that it sounded very serious and the villagers has counter plans on supporting whoever in the other side that supports the Villagers. He added that this demonstration will not stop here and will be at all the places and function that Lim Guan Eng attends. RM600,00 house that DAP is claiming is just a castle built in the air to the villagers and it has not stated in any documents from the State Government. Since the Incident in the village on the 13th Aug, no Assemblyman from the state government has visited the village. In another topic, Maran also stressed that a detailed report has to be published from the Dept.of Environment stating that this area is safe for highrise development. The Villagers stresses that they want whatever they deserve and not asking more than their demands, " we are not demanding for the cash or houses as claimed by the local media or the state government, just a decent valued house, in a real document, stamped,signed and guaranteed by the state government will be sufficient for the villagers to co-operate with the state government, and not a document by the developer Nusmetro who has no right towards the Land and the people here.
Every visit to Lim Guan Eng's office and officials were answered as "State Government is powerless!" but the reality is, Lim Guan Eng's signature in the contract with Nusmetro is the cause of all this mess, and it is very doubtful, which we demand the inteference of MACC.

He demand Lim Guan Eng to expose to the public on who is the actual culprit in this Land Scandal and Controversies, dont just blame Koh Tsu Koon or the former state government, who ever it is, just expose the person behind the whole scene, no matter who it is.
He also added that the DAP government, does not appreciate the voters at all and Lim Guan Eng indirectly quoted that he dont need the votes from Kg.Buah Pala. Which is very arrogant for a politician and the son of a senior politician. The offer letter that media and state government claimed that it has been signed by the Villagers is a false information, non of the villagers signed the document.
How is it possible for the developer to shrink the plan of their project in order to build more houses for the villagers?
Conscious and Unconscious!
Rwindraj@Cryingvoices

Demonstration On Lim Guan Eng's Constituency!

17 Aug 2009

A short Demonstration has been organised in a function headed by Lim Guan Eng about 6pm yesterday. The Villagers of Kg.Buah Pala relesed their frustration on lies and false promises by Lim Guan Eng!

Lim Guan Eng arrived at the scene at about 6.10pm, and noticed the Demonstration by the villagers and tried to read the wordings in the banner flash to him. He is on the ugliest look with red face and shame runs on his face throughout the demonstration. One of the speaker in the function by the name of Dato.R.Arunachalam (Known as RA) called the demonstrators Anjedi Kare Samuthayam(In Tamil) which roughly means Street dwelling Society and it is a very sarcastic word equivalent to Bastards in Tamil.

He is a well respected Leader and a chairman in the Mariamman Temple in Butterworth. He is also from the same society when he mean it, I feel that he is trying to impress Lim Guan Eng and he is famous for his Ball Carrying attitude! He was a normal labourer in the textile shop and he is an Uneducated person without the knowledge of English and he does'nt know how to read and write! from his conduct and gesture while visiting Kg.Buah Pala is very doubtful siding the developer as if he has a share in the project. Whatever it is the way he expresses that word in front of the crowd with such words are very sarcastic and he dont deserve to be called a leader and an Indian.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Before it used to be MIC Mandores only, now we also have DAP Mandores doing the dirty work for their bosses for peanuts

Rayer: Kampung Buah Pala man must apologise to Guan Eng
PENANG, Aug 16 — Seri Delima assemblyman R.S.N. Rayer has given 48 hours to Kampung Buah Pala villagers association assistant secretary C. Tharmaraj to make a public apology to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng over defamatory remarks he allegedly made or face legal action.

Speaking to reporters today, Rayer said Tharmaraj had claimed that gangsters in Air Putih, which is under Lim's constituency, were involved in the attempt to demolish houses in Kampung Buah Pala on Thursday.

On Thursday, the villagers had formed a human barricade to stop four bulldozers and a demolition team brought by a developer to evict them. Later a decision was reached after negotiations between police, representatives of the villagers, the court bailiff and the developer to postpone the demolition to Sept 1 to give time to the residents to vacate their homes. — Bernama

Guan Eng questioned over role in Kampung Buah Pala affair

LGE was questioned in the Dewan Negeri but his answers were lame, lame duck. He talk cock....accepting "the premium’s final instalment had exceeded the time limit, indicating that the validity had lapsed." as valid. Why he and his govt was so in a hurry to collect the not valid premium and issue the title knowing well there is fraud, irrugularities, a team is investigating and the Federal Court is in the middle of hearing the case.. is this what LGE is preaching us about law and order? AS CM, he could have stop the deal and wait for the outcome, why LGE failed to do the needful, bcos he did not see the rakyat first, wanted to hide his mistakes and start negotiaiting compensation. What nonsence he should be fighting nail & tooth to preserve the heritage land BUT he went against and wanted to see the villagers kicked out as squatters and a Condo built. Say it is done and not reversable, fine, what about the condition laid on the title, why LGE did not take action using his power to stop the Kop from demolishing, developing & alienating which was clearly stated in the title. Why he became a toothless tiger, or he failed to read PJ City Coumcillor Derek Fernandez pointing out the condition.

Guan Eng questioned over role in Kampung Buah Pala affair
Himanshu Bhatt and Opalyn Mok

Lim Guan Eng
GEORGE TOWN (Aug 11, 2009): Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng (DAP-Ayer Putih) was questioned in the state assembly today about his own role in the Kampung Buah Pala controversy when it was pointed out that his administration had collected the final instalment payment for the land’s purchase even though the validity of the premium had lapsed. State opposition leader Datuk Azhar Ibrahim (BN-Penaga) took Lim to task for having the land title issued to the Penang Government Officers’ Cooperative under his tenure on 27 March 2008.
Azhar said the premium’s final instalment had exceeded the time limit, indicating that the validity had lapsed. The maximum time given for the purchaser to settle the full amount was three months.
But according to the state executive council minutes, the cooperative had made its first payment of RM963,000 on 22 March 2007 and its next payment a year later, of RM2.247 million on 14 March 2009.

Azhar Ibrahim

In reply, Lim said it was the state executive council under the Barisan Nasional (BN) that had approved the alienation of the land twice (on Aug 18 2004 and June 8 2005). "The development approval had also been given by the Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP)," he said.
"Once the premium was settled, the title had to be issued. This was an administrative procedure," he added, noting that the BN government had approved the deal and collected the initial payment.
He also asked why the the cooperative had been given a discounted premium of only RM10 per sq ft, which he said was akin to rompak (a robbery).

RSN Rayer

Azhar responded: "The BN government may have taken RM1 million. But it was the bapa perompak (father of robbers) who took RM2 million." Syed Ameruddin Syed Ahmad (BN-Bayan Lepas), who was a member of the previous state executive council that approved the deal, said the subsidised land transfer to the cooperative was as a compensation for land it had given to the federal government for a new court building next to Dewan Seri Pinang.
Meanwhile RSN Rayer (DAP-Seri Delima) pointed out that the MPPP had approved the demolition of the houses on the land on Dec 8 2006, long before the title had even been issued to the cooperative.
He said that such questionable practice showed the need for councillors to be elected, and for the federal government to amend the Local Government Act to allow elections at municipal level.

HINDRAF - Executives have failed; Will judiciary save Kg Buah Pala?

The Penang executives have definitely failed in their attempt to
protect Kg Buah Pala by their failure to use operations of laws that
are enacted through legislative.

It is a failure because, they have many option to exercise various
forms of acts right from stopping the transfer, investigating the
fraudulent transaction, and of course using certain power mandated by
the legislative but all to no avail. The only answer that the
executives could come up with it is the fault of the previous state
government and they can’t do anything more.

Instead of pursuing lawful attempts which are readily available to
remedy the wrongdoings that has befallen the residents, the executives
ran a ‘soap opera’ trying so hard to depict and establish the
residents in Kg Buah Pala as being unreasonable, greedy and selfish
whereas the executives are dedicated and are working for the people.
The irony about the whole incident is that the residents had truth on
their side but the executives kept distorting the truth away and was
only interested in running a fake populist agenda claiming it to be
the expression of the people’s will.

All that has spewed out by the executives over the last month and half
has nothing to do with trying to resolve the residents’ problem in
equitable terms but rather exercising their executive powers to
silent, tarnish and corner them into accepting the terms that has been
dictated by the Developer.

It is a sad turn of event for the residents, who had so much hope that
with the change, the present government will undo all the wrongs since
they had the power to do so. Yet nothing happened. Even on the day of
the demolition, not even one of the executives was there to show moral
support in the residents’ defiance against the demolition team. So
much for a so called people’s party.

The residents now have another shot to save their village through the
judiciary when their hearing comes up on August 18, 2009. Well one
institution of the democracy ie Executive power had let them down, now
let’s see if the judiciary will be more just and equitable in their
ruling for the truth.

I am pretty sure with the tainted image that prevails; the general
public would be pessimistic that any ruling that would favour the
residents. Sometimes in pessimism, lays the great hope of justice for
them.

The Federal Court being the highest court in the land and the flag
bearer of justice for the common man when other organs of the
government had failed them can now act and show their independence for
what is the truth and equitable for the residents. The issue is
currently a national issue and closely related to the politics of the
country. By ruling for what is truthful, the judiciary may establish
itself again its independence from the executive powers.

HINDRAF sincerely hopes that the judiciary will provide the
opportunity for the residents to have a full trial in an open court so
that the residents will be able to seek justice by providing documents
and evidence of their rightful ownership of the land and establish the
mala fide conduct of executive powers.

Thank you

P.Waythamoorthy

HINDRAF – Chairman

Counter Statement-Star N3 counter Statement! 16.08.09

Rep: No point continuing land probe on Kampung Buah Pala..

-Buah Pala residents does not signed the letter stated that they will give way for demolition on the 1st Sept ( I have the proof).

-Nusmetro will build a condominium illegally in the land that is not suitable for Highrise Building which has been confirmed by Koay Har Hwa (former ADUN of Seri Delima)

-The villagers that has signed the agreement has done it out of fear and been harrased by the state government and the agreeement is an invalid one!(I Have proofs too)

-Lim Guan Eng and Prof.Ramasamy has promised to revoke the development project using

sec116(1)(d) of the National Land Code for the past one month to the residents of Kg.Buah Pala which has been reminded by C.Tamaraj the Villagers Ass.Secretary!

-The demolition of Kg.Buah Pala should be ordered by the state government of Penang and or the Koperasi Pegawai Pegawai Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang, and not by Nusmetro as the developer which has nothing to do with the Villagers or the Land!

-RSani Rayer@Liar said 12 temporary occupancy license holder has accepted double storey terrace houses, which is not been offered to the villagers at all, which valid agreement is he talking about? There is no valid agreement or offer letter given to the resident at all( Please refer to the legal Documents of Buah Pala that I have posted earlier).

RSN Liar!, Dont make the life of the Villagers of Buah Pala as dark as you! Black History will be remembered generation by generation and the curse is on your generation too!

-Rayer is talking nonsense in his statement on not to continue the probe against the Sale of the Land to Koperasi, which falls in a totally different Issue, Building and evacuating the villager has nothing to do with the Probe on the Sale of the Land and the Probe has to be carried out by a special team with Integrity!

-Rayer came into the picture like a mushroom after rain, and suddenly appeared to be the hero and releasing press statements as if he is existing here! He has been doomed and cast-away by the villagers in Buah Pala! Where was he for so long? He is not eligible to speak anything about Buah Pala and sorry to say, this is his last term in his life as an Assemblyman.

Conscious and Unconscious!

Rwindraj@Cryingvoices

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Another passionate MP in Kg.Buah Pala now.. 2222hrs 15th Aug

Dr.JeyaKumar is a passionate MP who came all the way from Sg.Siput and consoling the villagers and advised not to use violence under any circumstances and observe patients to all the injustices thats going on to the Villagers of Buah Pala. he listened to all the plight and grievences of the community here, and made the villagers here feel relieved for now. Thank you YB!