Malaysian Energy Giant Causes Stir Over Need to Move Chinese Graves


Ah, I this ties into other info I received.

Dateline 2014-07-04, TWSJ:

State-owned oil and gas giant Petronas is facing an outcry by some southern Malaysians whose ancestors’ graves are being moved from a small cluster of Chinese cemeteries to make way for a $25 billion gas project. One Chinese farmer walked 500 miles to protest.

So far, more than half of the graves have been dug up and moved to a plot of state land, sparking at least nine lawsuits and the walk by farmer Chua Peng San. Eight of the lawsuits have been successful; one is still pending.

The farmer, from Pengerang, a rural coastal area in the southwestern tip of Johor, walked to Parliament and Petronas headquarters, both in Kuala Lumpur.

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