Coalfield Estate: Once tenants now squatters

A group of workers from the Coalfield oil palm plantation in Sungai Buloh are decrying the management's tactics to 'force' them to vacate their houses.

Spokesperson Lobat Rajoo said water and electricity supply have been cut to the quarters occupied by 25 families even though negotiations are pending over the eviction order.

However, some of the workers, including Lobat's group, do not qualify for bank loans to buy the low-cost houses.

Activists and Malaysia Consumer Advisory Association president Varatharajoo Murugan, who accompanied the workers to the NUPW office, had earlier alleged that the state government has not been helpful to the group.

Selangor exco member Dr Xavier Jayakumar, who oversees estate workers' affairs, said the state has tried to intervene, even though the matter involves an industrial dispute.

Reported by Indrani Kopal
Camera works by Maran Perianen
Voiceover by Dave Jean Kameron

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• malaysiakini
• indian
• estates
• hindraf

[samgee2007]

@samgee2007 -Go and suck the Chinese towkehs dick! cause they are the owners of your estate..The Tamils need !.Toddy shop 2.A tamil school. 3 Free electricity for watching tamil VCD!...MGR thanmby.................

[samgee2007]

why can't this tamil bastards work hard like chinese or malays? ..the fuckin Tamils got no brain at all...move to Town and work in the factory like the rest of the Chinese lah!..you bastards good at killing your fellow Tamils with 2 bottles of Tiger - but no balls to kill the chinese or Malay ............suck my dick lah thamby ...cho cho cry like a baby....suck my dick you weak tamils!