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MALAYSIA: THE PENAN
- Bruno Manser
: Lakei eh Metat -- Man Who Has Disappeared
this is another and different (but unpublished) version of the Bruno Manser story. See the published version in the Just Deeds issue (#53) of the Kyoto Journal. (Please read this as an introduction to the Bruno Manser interview at this site. Please also see the Bruno Manser Fonds web site (www.bmf.ch). - see also: www.bmf.ch)
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- the Disappearance of Bruno Manser
: the Devastation of the Indigenous Penan
Appeared first in THE VOICE NEWS, Winstead CT, in 2002. (See the imagebank section of All Things Pass for Tokyo images of, and Congo images by, Bruno Manser. Also see the exhibit on Bruno. - see also: http://www.allthingspass.com/bruno.html)
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- Bruno Manser (1954-2000) and the Indigenous Penan of Sarawak
: Published in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION AND NATURE.
A biographical sketch of the Swiss man Bruno Manser, and his relationship to the indigenous Penan people of Sarawak, Malaysia.
(Bruno Manser was a friend of mine. His story remains in near whiteout in the United States. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, which includes 1000 entries, written by 520 contributors, was published in March 2005. - see also: http://www.religionandnature.com/encyclopedia/index.htm)
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- Bruno Manser Officially Declared Dead: Press Release: Bruno Manser Fonds, Basel, Switzerland, 10 March 2005
Five years after his traceless
disappearance in the rainforest of the Malaysian state of Sarawak on
Borneo, Bruno Manser Fonds is now considered to be legally dead. (Read the full text. - see also: http://www.bmf.ch)
- Indigenous Penan Protest Against Certified Destruction of their Forests: A Bruno Manser Fonds Press Release
February 17, 2005 ( - see also: http://www.bmf.ch)
- GIVE US YOUR FOREST-WE'll GIVE YOU A WATER PIPE
: Samling Justifies Use of Force Against Indigenous Communities in Sarawak's Last Primeval Rainforest
Press Release: Bruno Manser Fonds, September 18, 2007 (Samling Global Ltd., the Malaysian multinational logging corporation, for the first time acknowledges that it is having recourse to force against indigenous Penan communities in order to get hold of timber resources in a forest concession certified for "sustainable" logging by the Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC). - see also: http://www.bmf.ch)
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- EU delegation to visit Penan blockade area without meeting the Penan
: BMF MEDIA RELEASE
Community spokesman: "Our people are expecting the delegation to meet us."
(An official EU delegation enquiring about the legality and sustainability of timber production in Malaysia is set to travel to the Penan areas in Sarawak later on this week. However, it has been learned that the EU delegates are not going to meet the Penan communities despite an invitation by the headmen and an open letter to the delegation by a number of European and Malaysian NGOs. - see also: http://www.bmf.ch)
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- PENAN: Forest Stewardship Council suspends Samling certification
: BMF: A Short Reprieve for the Penan
( - see also: http://www.bmf.ch)
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- PENAN SET UP LOGGING BLOCKADE
: Support Indigenous People's Struggle in Sarawak's Forests
A Press Release from my friends at the Bruno Manser Fonds. ( - see also: http://www.bmf.ch)
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