The Malaysian legal system unlike the english system does not recognise AP (advese possession – not to be misconstrued as Approved Permits)

Meaning you cannot claim possession of land by just parking yourself for a certain number of years although the owner did not give a damn about your existence unless of course you pay money and buy the land.

In the Kg B issue I do not know as to who actually owns the land.

In any case you cannot just bulldoze houses-lah or burn them down.

This is not Palestine-lah my friend.

The owner of the land is also partly to be blamed – why allow squatters on your land – you should have ensured that it is adequately secured – fencing – warningetc.

If new owners then when you bought the place surely you saw the squatters already – unless they suddenly appeared overnight like mushromms after rain.

But then howcome TNB and JBA is supplying water????

MPAJ – Must be polite to them also – they are also human beings.

You fellows practically killed innocent lifes in Highland Towers and more lifes lost in the Ulu Kelang landslide near ZOO negara – enoughlah. give it a break – hell is already overcorwded. last time killing done with teh help of ‘act of GOD’ now you guys are physically carrying out the execution.

Anyways if there is anything that can be done to help the folks at Kg Beremban – pls post details here.

I’ll be there on Sunday for the gotong-royong.

Anyone knows the phone numbers of MPAJ boss and toyol – please call them also.

perhaps this is the way some of us look at it. in doing the demolitions at the exact point in time that they did, the authorities visited upon these villagers an unreasonable amount of suffering. Was it really necessary to destroy every single home with all belongings within leaving them without shelter in the rainy season?

All of us would love to see a legal, just and amicable solution to the situation. But the developers and the authorities seem to have turned their back on such options, refusing to make proper allocations for alternative homes.

Thus I think it is fair to help construct at least temporary shelters for the villagers in the meantime.

As Mr. K pointed out however, the il/legality of this situation has yet to be confirmed, so we should perhaps keep an open mind.

Thanks for your input!

hmmm there are so many hardcore poor people out there without proper shelter, pls do something for them too but do something legal.

there are so many poor people out there, law abiding people, who dont accept charity, hardworking and do not make trouble.

Will try to fwd the info along, thanks for the tip-off Mr. K! :)

For example, if there’s an open pathway through your property that people have been using for 20 years to get to the other side and you haven’t done anything to prevent people from using it, you’re obligated to keep a pathway open — you can’t just decide to block it one day.