KUCHING, March 17 — After 20 odd years of being stateless in Sarawak and even having been treated as an ‘outsider’ by his peers, Allen Chia could not be more grateful that he...
KUCHING, March 17 — After 20 odd years of being stateless in Sarawak and even having been treated as an ‘outsider’ by his peers, Allen Chia could not be more grateful that he finally possessed a temporary identification document.
“We struggled a lot in getting this and to know who I am. During my school days, I could not take part in taekwondo tournaments and taekwondo is my passion. Chia has a younger sibling who was born after his parents registered their marriage. To this, he said: “As the big brother, I’m happy that my younger brother did not have to go through what I had.”
Also getting his temporary identification document was seven-year-old Amar Akil Darwisy, who was accompanied by his parents Awang Musa Awang Dillah, 46 and Mordiah Abon, 43. “Seven years ago, I went shopping with my sister at a hypermarket in Batu Kawa. As we detoured from the hypermarket to a departmental store, a woman suddenly came up to us with a seven-day-old infant, saying that she wanted to give him away for adoption.
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