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Temple Demolitions & Land Rights

Jan 2024 - Mar 2024 ↻ Historical§ Legal△ Critical
The framing

"They gave us a 24-hour notice to remove a 100-year-old deity. The bulldozer arrived in 12."

Across peninsular Malaysia, century-old Hindu temples are being demolished under land reclamation orders — raising questions about whether development policy has become a vehicle for ethnic erasure.

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