A recent survey done by Bukit Koman villagers revealed that 78.1% of the residents in surrounding areas were suffering health problems, which is believed to be related to cyanide used in RAGM.
Woon Soon Fatt, a 36-year-old mechanic, has been suffering from a skin condition over the last two and half years. His forearms are dotted red with angry-looking welts and there are scabs from where he has scratched too hard. For Woon, the misery began in 2009 when RAGM started operation. Suffering also, in varying degrees, are his wife and four children aged 15, 13, seven and five...........
“I’m not scared of hard work and pushing myself, but I am scared of the cyanide. I can protect my family from many things, but I cannot protect them from the poison that is coming out from the mine,” he says.
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