[PHOTOS] Australian Students Gather To Protest Against "Taib Mahmud Court"
Students at the University of Adelaide are unhappy over a building in the school with the title "Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak Court". They are demanding that the Sarawak Chief Minister's name to be removed from the building.
By Mei Mei Chu — 18 Sep 2013, 01:18 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
Adelaide University students gathered to protest against Taib Mahmud's blood money
Hon. Mark Parnell Member of the South Australian Legislative Council, Leader of South Australian Greens, speaking about Adelaide Uni's connection with Taib Mahmud.
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Yasmin Martin, Ethno-Cultural Officer of the Adelaide University Student Representative Council.
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Students at University of Adelaide in Australia are protesting over a building named after Taib Mahmud
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Students at University of Adelaide in Australia are protesting over a building named after Taib Mahmud
Image via imgur.comThe protest, which took place at around 10.30am Malaysian time, saw the students gathered at the ‘Taib Mahmud Court’.
malaysiakini.com
Disgruntled students at Adelaide University, in South Australia, today gathered to protest the naming of a courtyard at their alma mater after controversial Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud.
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Petition photos were included with the hashtag #ChangeTaibMahmudCourt
Students at University of Adelaide in Australia are protesting over a building named after Taib Mahmud
Students at University of Adelaide in Australia are protesting over a building named after Taib Mahmud
Image via imgur.comStudents at Australia's University of Adelaide will demonstrate tomorrow to force the university to rename a facility that was named after Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud (pic).
yahoo.comA report in The Australian newspaper today said while low-level criticisms have persisted for years, students this time were backed by the student representative council and outside groups.
themalaysianinsider.com
A protest will be held in campus tomorrow, backed by the student representative council and outside groups, to ask its vice-chancellor, Warren Bebbington to rescind the decision, the daily reported.
yahoo.comProtest organiser Lizzie Taylor says the school students do not want to be associated with Taib Mahmud
Protest organiser Lizzie Taylor said she hoped management would respond once they saw that students were passionate about the issue.
theaustralian.com.au
“Regardless of how much money he’s given, naming the court after him honours a man whose family companies are responsible for the displacement of the indigenous Penan people in Sarawak.
yahoo.com"These companies are responsible for the deforestation of 85% of Sarawak.
"We know what his name stands for and we don't want to be part of that in any way."
themalaysianinsider.com
The rally is held as students refuse to accept that their education is funded by the sufferings of displaced people, forests and animals in Sarawak
Students say they refuse to have Taib Mahmud's presence on campus and refuse to accept that their education was funded by the suffering of people, forests and animals in Sarawak
Image via imgur.comThe building was named "Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak Court" after the CM gave millions of dollars to the university
The building was named "Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak Court" after the CM gave millions of dollars to the university
Image via sarawakreport.org"Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak Court" was so named in December 2008 after a multi-million-dollar bequest to the university.
theaustralian.com.au
Taib Mahmud, who studied at Adelaide under the postwar Colombo Plan, has been Chief Minister of Sarawak since 1981, a role that critics allege he uses to further family businesses and displace indigenous communities for illegal logging. "
theaustralian.com.au
Adelaide University says Taib Mahmud's gifts involves permanent trust obligations that the university must adhere to
A spokeswoman for Adelaide University said the university accepted gifts from Taib in good faith many years ago but added no gifts have been accepted from him for more than seven years now.
themalaysianinsider.com
“The scholarships and facility named following Mr Taib’s gifts involve permanent trust obligations and agreements with which the university is bound to comply,” an unnamed spokesman from the University of Adelaide
themalaymailonline.comTaib Mahmud's alleged corruption was exposed in "Inside Malaysia's Shadow State", an undercover video published on March 2013
Leaked documents suggest Mr Taib and his family amassed enormous amounts of land at low prices, while authorising the destruction of hundreds of thousands of hectares of rainforest.
theaustralian.com.au
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