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...sixtysomething Along?like most Penan he is vague about his age?doesn't get much chance to use his blowpipe these days. "The hunting is almost finished here because of the logging," says Along. "But there is nowhere else we can go. This is the last place left to us. Two of our children?one of them was my youngest son?were killed in January and February, poisoned after drinking river water. The loggers poison the water to catch the fish. My son Ayang was only 18 years...
...there was a lot of blood," Christinet comments, "but Bruno sewed it for me with a needle and thread." The two men spent three weeks in Sarawak, most of it hiding from police. They also pursued an abortive attempt to order four tons of 25-cm nails for the Penan to hammer into tree trunks, Christinet says. Similar tactics were employed by antilogging groups in the U.S. during the 1990s, sometimes resulting in severe injuries to loggers when chainsaws met the imbedded steel nails...
...flight above the Sarawak capital of Kuching in a motorized hang glider. It was another desperate move by a man who was increasingly becoming irrelevant. His numerous letters to the Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud pleading reconciliation or offering to fund a mobile dental clinic for the Penan were ignored...
...soon as he landed, Manser was arrested and deported. Media coverage was spotty. While awaiting deportation in a Kuala Lumpur prison, his jailers were amused to see that Manser spent his time playing with the knitted lamb. A serious campaign for the rights and livelihoods of the Penan had descended into farce...
...Manser decided that he would make one last trip to see his Penan friends. "His goodbye was very different from other times," says Vosscer. "It was very open ended about how long he would have to stay in Sarawak. He said he was very tired...