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For more 50 years they have been living and working as rubber tappers in what was once the Bukit Jalil rubber estate. But now they are due to be evicted by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) in four days.

They said that the houses were given to them more than 50 years ago when they were brought in to work as rubber tappers.

The residents have been fighting to be given houses -- They do not want to live in low cost flats in Taman Muhibbah. After working for more than 50 years in the estate, they feel they deserve more. But the area was demarcated and one part of the estate fell under Selangor, while the other, Kuala Lumpur.

The families on the Selangor side were the lucky ones. They were given terraced houses, while the families under DBKL's jurisdiction were left by the wayside and redesignated as squarters.

Having classified them squatters, DBKL is about to be treat them as such this coming Wednesday when the eviction notice comes into effect and bulldozers will demolish their houses of half a century.

This report and text comes from Malaysia Kini TV

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