| | BRUNO MANSER AND THE PENANS by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski |
 | | James Wong loved to talk with foreigners about the Penan, whom the foreign press has idealized as a group of innocent, down-trodden, blowpipe wielding, loin-clothed people who are wise in the ways of the forest but hopelessly naive when faced with modern Malaysian politics. |
| | The Swiss had illegally entered Sarawak to rejoin his tribal friends the Penan, with whom Manser had spent some six years fighting the timber operators that natives claim are destroying their forest home. |
| | Manser has arguably been the most potent catalyst for media coverage of the fight by the Penan, and other Sarawak natives, to protect their forests against what they say are insensitive governments and greedy timber barons. |
| www.sochaczewski.com /ARTbrunomanserearthtimesjuly2001.htm (2204 words) |
