Complaint letter on EU officials in Malaysia

I, as a Malaysian, would like to file a complaint on behalf of anti-logging and plantation villagers from the Indigenous communities, against EU officials from the EU Commission, in their complicity with the logging and plantation corporations in Malaysia.

Being an independent social activist, I have spoken to the villagers from the Indigenous communities, who are unhappy with the EU Commission delegation that have visited Malaysia in January. This visit and fact-finding mission was in line with the requirement within the current Voluntary Partnership Agreement process being negotiated between the EU Commission and the Malaysian government as represented by the Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Peter Chin Fah Kui. The villagers claimed that the EU officials are in complicity with the logging and plantation corporations that have and are still encroaching forcefully upon their ancestral and customary landrights, in violation of the human and environmental rights as contained within the policies of sustainable development as declared and defined by the 1992 Rio Declaration of the UN Working Commission on Sustainable Development. Such complicity included the refusal and failure of EU officials in meeting these villagers by claiming that they are in the minority, and for even staying in one of the logging corporation's camp for the night in the heavily logged Sela'an-Linau Forest Reserve as located within the remote Baram region in Malaysia's Sarawak state in Borneo. I would like War on Want, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth UK and Survival International to investigate whether such violation by the EU officials has also violated EU Convention on Sustainable Development, especially when the products of both the logging and plantation industries are being exported to Europe especially for the European public consumers. Also, the villagers from the communities impacted by such violation of both human and environmental rights are willing to give evidence in Malaysia or in Europe.

Lastly, please take this complaint seriously since the villagers could not get proper social and environmental justice in Malaysia despite that the Malaysian Commission on Human Rights, Suhakam has listened to their formal complaints. I suspect that the reason for the Malaysian government in allowing these cases to be heard, is in order to appease, silent and manipulate the international community and the UN, that the Malaysian government is supposedly assisting the people. However, so far the Malaysian government has not taken any effective steps to resolve such violation of both human and environmental rights of traditional Indigenous communities who are bravely opposing the logging and plantation industries that are encroaching forcefully upon their ancestral and customary landrights under the false guise of "Sustainable Development".