
Orang Asli representatives outside the Bukit Aman police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to lodge a complaint about the shooting incident by an assemblyman. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Nazir Sufari, January 26, 2016.
After being barred by Perak police from lodging a report, a group of Temiar Orang Asli from the state filed a complaint with the police disciplinary board at the Bukit Aman police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.
One of the Orang Asli, Anjang Aluej, said the villagers from Kampung Sungai Papan had wanted to lodge a report against an assemblyman for firing his gun into the air while on a visit to their village on January 19.
The assemblyman had gone to the village to observe the installation of a generator and had fired the shot without any provocation.
Five villagers, including three witnesses to the incident, then went to lodge a police report but were turned away at the Gerik police station and again at the Lenggong police station. Read more