‘We will never allow this land to be sold’, says Cassiem Abdullah
“I don’t believe we really own this land. I believe it’s simply in our trust.” Those were the words of an emotional Cassiem Abdullah, in speaking about his decades-long fight with his family to relinquish their land on the sacred Tana Baru cemetery to the Muslim community. The Abdullah-Diout family is one of two Muslim families who own two erven on the historical site, considered the first Muslim burial site […]
