Some 30 or 40 years ago, the Government awarded a group of senior civil servants plots of land at or around the Kampung Berembang area for them to build residential homes as a reward for their dedicated services throughout their working life.

Some 100 or so recipients were involved, many dead over the passing years. At least 32 of them were issued Qualifying Titles and the matter just fizzled out as more of them died over time. Their next of kins faced brick walls everytime the issue is raised.

May I ask who actually owns land in that area?

My late father was one of those awarded about 5000 sq ft in those days and told his children (me included) to follow up on the matter before he died , but many documents went missing in the process. I still have some valuable documents pertaining to the matter and intend to pursue my inheritence. None of us have given permission neither expressed or implied for any party to squat on our piece of land.

Can anyone in here help me out? Many thanks.

PS. This was copied from another blog site that is dormant.

I just found your blog yesterday when searching for news on all the immigration raids, and I’m glad I did – it’s really great. I was in KL in November and attended World Human Rights Day event that was put on by Suaram and a few other groups in an area where people where being displaced for development – although I thought it was a squatter’s town that had been demolished. They had set up camps to stay and protest. This isn’t the same story is it? I can’t remember the name of the area where the event was held.

I have a few pictures from it on my flickr, though: http://flickr.com/photos/tarajaime/tags/demonstration/

But I don’t know if those are good enough to be able to recognize. I would hope that this sort of thing doesn’t happen that often, but I know better than to hold my breath on that.

Keep up the good work here!

bob – yeah, we speculated that the red was to identify who *not* to arrest :P

thanks for the comments!

Thanks for your comment! As I understand it, the state government offered to sell cheap houses to the villagers, but they were extremely far away, in Puchong and somewhere else (are these the places you mentioned?)

Having lived in Kg. Berembang for more than 30 years, it’s not fair to ask them to move so far away, and they thus refused.

Hope that helps! Thanks!