Cops arrest Penan protestors at Murum Dam site (Updated)

No entry. Police have cordoned off the assess road leading to the site in the Murum Dam in central Sarawak where more than 100 penan natives are protesting their imminent relocation from the murum valley because of the construction of the murum dam. pic by Raymond Abin

MIRI: Police have swooped into the Murum Dam site in central Sarawak and arrested a group of Penan protestors - who were staging blockades to protest the move by the state authorities to uproot them from their longhouses following the construction of the RM4bil hydroelectric dam.

The police deployed teams into the dam area located in the middle region of the Belaga district where the more than 100 Penans have been protesting since two weeks ago and they have arrested at least eight of these Penan protestors as of late afternoon.