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Tindakan keras ke atas orang yang memukul wartawan dan mengancam CM
1 year ago
PSUKPP/21/
29 Februari 2011
YBhg Tan Sri Haji Ismail bin Haji Omar
Ketua Polis Negara
Ibu Pejabat Polis Diraja Malaysia
Bukit Aman
50560 Kuala Lumpur
YBhg Tan Sri,
TINDAKAN KERAS KE ATAS AHLI UMNO DAN PERKASA YANG MEMUKUL WARTAWAN DAN MENGANCAM SAYA
Dengan segala hormatnya perkara di atas dirujuk.
2. Seperti yang Tan Sri sedia maklum, pada 26 Februari 2012, beberapa pembantahan telah diadakan di seluruh Malaysia berkenaan dengan isu pembinaan loji nadir bumi Lynas di Kuantan. Malangnya, pembantahan anti-Lynas pada 26 Februari 2012 pada pukul 6:00 petang di Dataran Pidato, Padang Kota Lama, Pulau Pinang, telah diganggu oleh ahli-ahli UMNO dan Perkasa yang telah membuat rusuhan di kawasan itu. Sebelum saya sampai ke situ pada pukul 6:30 petang, saya difahamkan bahawa perusuh-perusuh itu telah cuba memaksa orang awam dan pembantah anti-Lynas balik rumah dan meninggalkan tempat itu. Ramai pula yang ditolak dan dipukul sehingga mereka jatuh, termasuklah wanita-wanita. Adalah nasib baik bahawa mangsa-mangsa tersebut tidak bertindakbalas balik.
3. Ini boleh dilihat dari laporan-laporan media dan juga dari rakaman video yang dilampirkan bersama surat ini, di mana perhimpunan aman yang diadakan di Dataran Pidato Pulau Pinang telah diganggu dan digugat oleh kekecohan sekumpulan orang yang dikenali sebagai ahli-ahli UMNO dan Perkasa Pulau Pinang, yang telah menyerang perhimpunan aman anti-Lynas itu dan telah menggunakan bahasa kasar, makian dan carutan perkauman seperti “Cina Babi, Cina Pulau Pinang Bodoh, Babi Sokong Lim Guan Eng Ketua Menteri”. Ahli-ahli kumpulan tersebut telah juga mengganas peserta-peserta dan wakil-wakil media yang hadir, setakat dua orang wartawan Kwong Wah Jit Poh, Chew Seng Tun dan Lee Hong Chun, telah dipukul sehingga tercedera dan dipaksa mendapat rawatan di Hospital Besar Pulau Pinang.
4. Peristiwa ini adalah kali kedua wartawan dan orang awam diugut dan diganas oleh perusuh-perusuh UMNO-Perkasa tanpa tindakan keras diambil ke atas mereka oleh polis. Sebelum ini, pada 1 Julai 2011 dua orang wartawan telah dipukul oleh peserta-peserta demonstrasi yang melibatkan ahli-ahli UMNO dan Perkasa di KOMTAR dan selepas itu juga di Jambatan Pulau Pinang. Sehingga sekarang, tiada tindakan yang diambil terhadap mereka yang memukul wartawan itu.
5. Saya ingin menarik perhatian Tan Sri kepada tingkahlaku perusuh-perusuh UMNO-Perkasa pada 26 Februari 2012 itu yang memukul, menghalang dan meludah kereta saya. Peristiwa ini berlaku secara terbuka dan sewenang-wenangnya di hadapan anggota-anggota polis yang hadir berhampiran, tetapi anggota-anggota polis tersebut tidak mengambil sebarang tindakan untuk mengawal keadaan, melindungi saya dan mengambil tindakan ke atas mereka yang menghalang, memukul serta meludah kereta saya. Dari rakaman video yang dilampirkan bolehlah dilihat bahawa anggota-anggota polis berdiam diri dan menonton sahaja apabila orang awam diganas dan apabila kereta saya dihalang, dipukul dan diludah.
6. Saya sebagai Ketua Menteri negeri ini telah dijemput menghadiri perhimpunan tersebut, tetapi saya sendiri telah diancam dan hampir dipukul oleh ahli-ahli kumpulan UMNO-Perkasa yang tersebut. Ahli-ahli UMNO dan Perkasa telah menunjukkan penumbuk terhadap saya dan telah menggunakan carutan perkauman dan kata-kata ancaman seperti “You jaga”. Jika tidak kerana rakyat umum yang melindungi saya, saya percaya bahawa saya sendiri akan diserang. Saya difahamkan bahawa sebelum saya sampai, sudah berlaku kekecohan di mana ada beberapa orang awam diserang dan dipukul kumpulan ahli Perkasa dan UMNO ini. Semua laporan polis yang berkenaan dan rakaman video telah dibuat dan diberikan kepada pihak polis.
7. Adalah jelas bahawa tinkahlaku anggota-anggota polis yang berdiam diri dan tidak menghalang mereka yang mengganas rakyat Pulau Pinang itu tidak boleh diterima. Saya berharap bahawa tindakan yang keras sekarang akan diambil oleh pihak polis ke atas mereka yang bersalah agar peristiwa-peristiwa seperti ini tidak berlaku lagi di Negeri Pulau Pinang.
Perhatian peribadi Tan Sri ke atas perkara ini adalah didahului dengan terima kasih.
Sekian,
LIM GUAN ENG
Ketua Menteri Negeri Pulau Pinang
Credits: Lim Guan Eng
Himpunan Hijau 2.0 (Penang State)
1 year ago
Lynas Corporation company had build Rare Earth in Gebeng, Kuantan. If everything goes as planned, by September this year, the largest rare earth refinery in the worldcalled Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) will start operating in Gebeng Industrial Zone, some 25 km away from Kuantan town, home to almost half a million people. Lynas will import rare earth ores from Mount Weld in Australia to be processed in Gebeng. The finished products will be exported overseas while the radioactive waste dumped in Gebeng. This plant will cast a shadow over Kuantan town. Real estate price will plunge, residents who are able to relocate will flee and those who are not will be in constant fear of radiation exposure. As soon as operations begin, Lynas Advanced Materials plant will leave behind 28,000 tonnes of solid waste per year.
SOLID WASTE MATERIAL
3 types of waste from the cracking-separation plant:
Water Leached Purification (WLP)
• The residue from the water leach and neutralisation process
is a slightly acidic filter cake containing Fe2SO4, PO4, SO4
and lesser amount of Ca & Mg and insoluble oxides and
hydroxides of Al, Ca, Si, Mn and rare earths.
Flue Gas Desulphurization Residue (FGD)
• Lime will be used to remove SO2 from waste gas stream and
produce Ca2SO4 solid
Neutralization Underflow Residue (NUF)
• Produced from the neutralisation of a dilute sulfuric acid.
Himpunan Hijau 2.0 Rally!!
1 year ago
Himpunan Hijau 2.0
Date: 26 Feb 2012
Venue: Kuantan Padang MPK
Police have yet to decide whether to grant a permit to the Himpunan Hijau 2.0 rally planned here on Sunday. Kuantan OCPD ACP Mohd Jasmani Yusoff said police would meet organisers of the anti-Lynas rally Friday to discuss the matter. ”We have already sent them a letter telling them to meet with us on Wednesday. However, the meeting has been postponed to Friday. ”We will wait for them to come and see us to iron out details of their planned rally,” said ACP Mohd Jasmani said Thursday. It was reported that the organisers of the rally had claimed some 20,000 people would be present at 9.30am on Sunday to oppose the rare earth plant in Gebeng operated by Australia’s Lynas Corporation, which has been given a temporary operating licence (TOL).
Meanwhile, work has begun to fence off the MPK1 field where the rally is planned. Kuantan Municipal Council (MPK) president Datuk Zulkifli Yaacob said this was to facilitate upgrading of the field for the Sukma games in July. ”It has nothing to do with the rally. The upgrading work was supposed to be carried out earlier but I was told the contractor could only start today (Thursday),” he said when contacted. Zulkifli added that the field would stay fenced up until work was completed. Himpunan Hijau chairman Wong Tack condemned the action, saying it was being done to intimidate the public. ”How can it be a coincidence when our rally is just three days away? MPK is being unreasonable,” he said. Wong said the rally would go on either within the field or outside. ”I am giving MPK an ultimatum. Do not force us to take the rally to the streets.”
Give us the field or we take the street, say anti-Lynas group
The organisers of the anti-Lynas has vowed to go ahead with their Himpunan Hijau 2.0 mega rally on Sunday in Kuantan despite having their venue application rejected. Organising chairman Wong Tack revealed that the Kuantan Municipal Council had on Monday rejected their application to use the municipal field. He told a press conference at the PAS headquarters here, that the people will still gather despite the rejection and he would be filing an appeal against the local council’s decision.
“They have the choice to allow us to use the field or the streets,” he said. Pahang Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob had previously welcomed the gathering, saying that it was fully within the rights of Malaysians. The organisers claimed that the gathering would attract 20,000 people in their bid to oppose the rare earth plant operated by Australia’s Lynas Corporation in Gebeng, half an hour’s drive away from Kuantan.The plant had recently been given a temporarily operating licence, which critics claimed were approved without a detailed and transparent environmental impact assessment report.
Anti-Lynas groups condemn temporary licence
Anti-Lynas protest groups have strongly condemned the Atomic Energy Licensing Board’s (AELB) approval of a temporary operating licence (TOL) for the mining corporation’s rare earth refinery in Gebeng here. Stop Lynas Coalition chairman Andansura Rabu said he was shocked the licence was granted even though the permanent disposal facility (PDF) issue had yet to be solved. “One of AELB’s conditions was that the plans and location of the PDF must be disclosed within ten months of the TOL issuance. Why didn’t the Government and its agencies force Lynas to solve this issue before considering the approval?” he asked at a press conference here Thursday.AELB director-general Raja Datuk Abdul Aziz Raja Adnan said in a statement Wednesday that the licence could be suspended or cancelled while future applications would not be entertained if Lynas did not adhere to five conditions. The conditions include a US$50mil (RM152mil) deposit that Lynas must keep with the Government. Andansura added that AELB’s statement did not consider the R&D that would be performed by Lynas to recycle the waste.
“Pahang will become like a public toilet for Lynas. By imposing the deposit on them, it is as though Lynas has just been absolved of all responsibilities,” he said. Andansura said the coalition would proceed to file an injunction at the Kuala Lumpur High Court by Feb 13 to stop the plant from operating. Meanwhile, Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh said that AELB’s condition that the residue should be returned to the source if necessary was irrational. “Western Australian Minister for Mines and Petroleum Norman Moore had already said that they will not accept the waste and it will belong to Malaysia. “The United Nations’ Basel Convention which declared that any radioactive material must be returned to its country of origin could not be enforced as well as it does not cover radioactive waste,” she said in a press statement.The Himpunan Hijau and Save Malaysia, Stop Lynas protest groups will hold press conferences later in the afternoon to respond to the TOL approval.
Himpunan Hijau sees red over no green light
Himpunan Hijau 2.0 organisers have vowed to press on with their anti-Lynas gathering this Sunday despite having their venue application rejected. Organising chairman Wong Tack said the Kuantan local council had on Monday rejected their request to use the municipal field. During a press conference at the PAS headquarters here yesterday, Wong said he would appeal against the local council’s decision. “Himpunan Hijau is shocked by the official reply from the local council on Feb 20 that our application cannot be considered’. “I give an assurance that at 9.30am on Sunday, the rakyat of Kuantan will assemble, no matter what,” said Wong, adding that no other reasons were given for the rejection in the letter signed by the mayor. He said the letter also stated that the organisers should first obtain a “letter of support or permit” from the police.
“They have the choice to allow us to use the field or the streets,” Wong said, adding that the police had written to the organisers for a meeting yesterday. The organisers claimed some 20,000 people would be present to oppose the rare earth plant operated by Australia’s Lynas Corporation in Gebeng, which has been given a temporary operating licence. The first Himpunan Hijau gathering was held in October at Taman Gelora beach. Meanwhile in Kuantan, residents filed an application for a judicial review on the temporary licence.The suit, which was filed on Friday, named Atomic Energy Licensing Board, the director-general of Environmental Quality at the Department of Environment and Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd as respondents. Stop Lynas Coalition chairman Andansura Rabu said they were seeking leave to apply for an order of prohibition to stop AELB from issuing any temporary or permanent licence to Lynas until it had submitted a Detailed Environmental Impact Assessment report to the Environ-mental Quality director-general. He added that they were also seeking a stay order on the licence pending the determination of the proceedings.
