SABAH, LAND OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!

By : TAN SRI SIMON SIPAUN

SABAH is fondly known as a 'Land Below The Wind.' Now it can additionally easily qualify to be called a 'Land Of Illegal Immigrants' who have been certainly as well as fast changing a economic, social, cultural as well as domestic landscape of Sabah.

The problems associated with them have been mostly referred to as a mother of all problems in Sabah. If usually a authorities were pro-active in addressing a problems right from a start Sabah would not be saddled with a problems today.

Unfortunately it was not to be. you should have it clear during a opening which you never had or will have any intention whatsoever of blaming a bootleg immigrants for being in Sabah. As tellurian beings they have been usually seeking for a improved hold up as well as opportunities.

If you were a single of them you would be doing usually a same thing. They have equal tellurian rights, no some-more no less, than any I\/Ialaysian. Their tellurian rights contingency be respected. Human rights have no borders.

However a subject mostly asked by genuine Sabahans is why were they/are authorised to ! come in Sabah illegally with impunity? It is alleged as well as viewed which hundreds of thousands of them have been postulated citizenships as well as a right to vote in return for their await to a UMNO dominated ruling BN government. It is therefore not startling which Sabah is regarded by a benefaction supervision as a fixed deposit.

Ironically, many internal Sabahans lack a required papers needed to qualify as citizens. They become stateless nonetheless they have never left a place where they were born.

In a early 70s plenty of Vietnamese refugees landed in Peninsula Malaysia. They were cramped to Pulau Bidong as well as inside of 2 years they were all deported to alternative countries.

The refugees famous by a UN as refugees who were Muslims mostly from a Southern Philippines who additionally proposed to arrive In Sabah during about a same time have been still in Sabah until today. Why a stand in standard?

Malaysia is neither a state celebration to a UN Convention Relating to a Status of Refugees 1951 nor a 1967 Protocol. This being a case, all refugees in Malaysia have been treated with colour as bootleg immigrants. They have been subjected to penalties, apprehension as well as deportation under a Immigration Act 1959/63. This Act does not commend refugees.

To prove which a Federal Government is seen to be doing something to finalise a complaint a Federal Task was determined some-more than a quarter of century ago following a assembly in between a Sabah Chief Minister as well as a Prime Minister. The CM drew a attention of a PM to a seriousness of a problem. It took a Federal Government a single year usually to create a post of a conduct of a Task Force.

Today a Task Force is still in existence but so is a complaint usually bigger as well as some-more complicated.

you do not hold! which i t is probable to know a accurate series of bootleg immigrants during any a single time given it is regularly changing as well as many probably augmenting in numbers. you have pronounced in a past as well as repeat it again which a retreat take-over has long proposed in Sabah.

There appears to be lack of domestic will upon a partial of a supervision to finalise a complaint once as well as for all. More as well as some-more genuine Sabahans have been convinced which this is a counsel pierce or agenda for Sabah by a Federal Government.

Books as well as articles have been written, investigate undertaken, sovereign as well as state leaders identified who had a role to play crop up to await such contention. The New Sabah Time in a 9 June, 2001 book reported which a High Court systematic former CM, Datuk Yong Teck Lee to empty his Likas state assembly chair since he won it in 1999 with a assistance of phantom voters.

Justice Datuk Muhammad Kamil Awang pronounced which a 1998 Electoral Roll for a constituency was bootleg as well as a choosing held in Mar 1999 was null as well as void. The judge, amongst others, settled which a justification adduced was tip of an iceberg as well as illusory evidence.

This stirred Parliament to amend a Election Act, whereby a electoral roll once gazetted cannot be challenged in any justice of law. you feel this is wrong as well as bad law.

Is it startling which until right away a problems associated with bootleg immigrants continue to persist? l hold a answer is no. All a moves, actions as well as pronouncements have not completed ! a prefer red results, differently this emanate would certainly be usually history right away similar to a Vietnamese refugees in a Peninsula.

At a single time a supervision spoken an amnesty. However itwas extended several times. This being a box l do not consider which a bootleg immigrants took it really seriously. There is no denote from a applicable authorities which any assessment was ever done either or not a preferred objectives of a amnesty exercise have been achieved.

At a single stage, a supervision was referring to about instituting apart courts to handle cases specifically for bootleg immigrants. l have not heard any further growth upon this matter. "Squatter homes to go, says Musa. Pulau Gaya to be absolved of illegal" reads a headline upon a front page of a Daily Express in a Friday eleven Aug 2006 edition.

The CM was quoted as saying which a state supervision will absolved Pulau Gaya of bootleg immigrants once as well as for all as well as all their homes will be demolished soon. You can see for yourselves which until right away such noble intention is yet to be translated into action. How to take supervision pledges seriously?

100,000 signatures had been picked up from Sabahans requesting supervision to settle a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI). This was followed by a long period of overpower until dual Federal Cabinet Ministers from Sabah were reported to have pronounced which a Federal Cabinet had finally decided upon 8 February, 2012 to settle an RCI as well as it would be rigourously voiced by a PM himself when he visited Sabah.

In a meantime a PM had visited Sabah third time given a dual Federal Ministers from Sabah done their respective statements as well as a DPM once but no proclamation was ever made. Again according to newspaper reports when a PM returned to KL he pronounced a RCI was being considered.

It has additionally right away been reported which a conditions of anxiety have been being finalized. The subject you have is - who is telling a truth? As distant as you am wakeful a cupboard decision is formed upon a really comprehensive cupboard paper.

For example, a breeze cupboard paper is usually referred to a applicable supervision agencies together with a Ministry of Finance for monetary implications as well as a Attorney General Chambers for authorised implications.

Once a decision is done upon it, it usually remains to be implemented. Terms of anxiety should not arise. To decide upon RCI but meaningful a conditions of anxiety is similar to putting a cart prior to a horse.

The Minister of Home Affairs allegedly done a matter which a supervision has not issued citizenship to bootleg immigrants in Sabah. He wanted explanation from people who consider otherwise.

YB Datuk Wilfred Bumburing submitted thick papers to prove evidence. To date zero has been heard from a Minister. On 1st October, 2011 a Deputy Home Minister Lee Chee Leong was reported to have denied which Sabah is a victim of a so-called 'projek IC' a programmed bootleg newcomer race blast engineered by a sovereign supervision for citizenships in exchange for votes to assistance a benefaction supervision retain domestic power.

This is tantamount to denying a definite as well as scornful a comprehension of a people of Sabah to say a least. Now you do not need any investigate or research. Just go around KK or kg. Boronuon in Telipok. Go to a Filipino market. you have met a series when you was with Suhakam.

As oflune 2005 a district of Kinabatangan had a race of about 85,000 as well as usually about 25,000 were Malaysians. As during 23 Dec 2005 Sabah's jail race was 3052 as well as 70% were foreigners. The Minister of Health was reported in a Da! ily Expr ess in a 9 Jul 2006 book which hospitals in Sabah were reception a many series of foreigners amounting to about 30%.

According to a Minister, a little of them fake identity cards to benefit acknowledgment as well as leave but paying. They additionally account for many contagious as well as catching diseases. It was additionally reported in a Daily Express upon 18 November 2007 which 80% of a Likas maternity sanatorium beds were occupied by bootleg immigrants.

More than years ago Kg. Ice Box in Tawau was burnt down. About 5000 people lost their homes as well as usually about 500 were Malaysians. In 2002, 34 foreigners were found to be in receive of mykads.

At a time mykad had not yet even been introduced in Sabah. The National Registration Department confirmed which a cards were in truth genuine. There could not be any alternative management doing this alternative than a sovereign authority. This speaks volume.

ln 1970 a race of Sarawak was about 1 million as well as Sabah was about 698,000. ln 2004, which is 34 years later, Sarawak race was about 2 million but Sabah was estimated to be in between 3.3 to 3.5 million.

Based upon Sarawak's race growth rate Sabah should have a race of about 1.4 million. There is a 'surplus' of about 2 million.

There is hardly a day passing but any headlines involving bootleg immigrants. Innocent passerby could remove a hold up usually similar to that, similar to a box of a outpost driver in lnanam. Understandably Malaysians living in Sabah feel in jeopardy as well as ! insecure as a series of foreigners keeps increasing. Incidents of drug associated crimes, burglaries as well as robberies have been common.

Gone have been a days when you could leave a houses unlocked. Now they have been similar to prisons. Things can usually get worse if a direct for jobs is not met by employment opportunities.

Being 25 years older than Malaysia, you recollect which a bootleg immigrants emanate is really post Malaysia development. There was no such thing in North Borneo prior to it became partial of Malaysia.

At a same time it cannot be denied which a displaced person race have been as well as have been contributing to a growth of Sabah by upon condition which tellurian resources especially in a construction, agricultural as well as plantation sectors, in homes as well as shops.

However, Malaysia has immigration laws. The supervision has a responsibility to ensure which they have been properly enforced. If a supervision had done this, there will be no

such complaint as you experience it today. The supervision owes a little serious explanation to Malaysians who have been living in Sabah. Illegal immigrants should be immediately deported. If their labour is needed they could return with correct transport documents. In a meantime no a single should be authorised to come in Sabah illegally.

Those who have been right away in Sabah should be distributed equally between a thirteen states in Malaysia. This is a national problem. Why should Sabah alone shoulder a burden?

you do not hold which a Philippines as well as Indonesia have been eager to acquire their nationals back given for as long as they have been in Sabah a complaint will not be theirs. Until right away a Philippines has not opened a consulate office in Kota Kinabalu since a claim over Sabah has not been dropped. < div>

Indonesia has some-more than 250 million people as well as a Philippines some-more than 90 million. Both countries can ill means to have more.

What does a destiny hold? Nobody can predict a future. We can usually have an educated theory formed upon experience as well as past events. you will not be astounded if not many of those who have been postulated citizenships have not moved to alternative parts of a nation in search for improved opportunities.

Politically a displaced person race who have been UMNO supporters would earlier or later outnumber a internal UMNO members as well as take over control through sheer force of numbers. you notice a so called brand new waves of bumiputras have been some-more quick as well as hardworking. For example, you know a single person who told me which his son obtained some-more thatch materials from a supervision than he needed while a single poor internal obtained nothing.

It is usual to see office building materials as well as H2O armoured column being distributed prior to a ubiquitous election. Another distant possibility as well as many likely not in my lifetime is for Sabah to be partial of a apart brand new nation together with partial of a southern separatist Philippines. - Sabahkini

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