OF all a paintings on a walls of my house, there is a single that always steals my attention. It is a historic image of Sept 16, 1963 captured in a old-fashioned black-and-white style. It is a a single where a nation's fathers of autonomy -- Tun Fuad Stephens, Tun Datu Mustapha Harun as well as Tun Abdul Razak Hussein -- stood together on a lectern in downtown Kota Kinabalu to chaperon in a birth of a brand new republic called Malaysia.
History was done that day when thousands of joyous Sabahans listened attentively as Tun Fuad Stephens (then well well known as Donald Stephens) held up a corkscrew as well as recited a Proclamation of Malaysia.
However, to infuse a dash of surrealism to a image, there is a phony superimposed image of a child in hip-hop clothing, pulling a breakdance pierce subsequent to where a first fathers stood.
If we look closely, we can see a weary eyes of a 3 Tuns bound on a boy. Their facial expressions locked in dishonesty as well as trepidation that a single day, a destiny generation of Malaysians -- as represented by a boy's image -- will not understand a significance of a independence.
That hypothetical child in a portrayal could really well be any a single of us today. Take for e.g. a explain by sure people that Sabah is supposed to be a single of 4 (not just a single of a fourteen states) in a association of Malaysia.
They explain Sabah had been deceived out of this in front of for a final 49 years. It is a really critical allegation, a single that questions a really need of a nation's existence.
Let's find! a law b y examining historical papers relevant to a arrangement of Malaysia. These include, between others, a 20-Points Document, a Malaysian Solidarity as well as Consultative Committee Report, a Cobbold Commission Report, a Inter-Governmental Committee Report, Hansard reports (on a Malaysia debate both in a Malayan as well as British Parliaments), a Malaysia Agreement 1963 as well as a Proclamation of Malaysia document.
Together with Tunku Abdul Rahman's as well as Lee Kuan Yew's autobiographies, these papers give us a better perspective of a resources that led to a arrangement of Malaysia in 1963. They recount a state of affairs in Southeast Middle East in a 50s as well as 60s, generally in terms of security as well as a uncertain destiny that a leaders had to understanding with.
we yield some excerpts of a papers as well as agreements below. Judge for yourself if a evidence that Sabah was meant to be a single of 4 part of states of a newly formed Malaysia Federation holds any water.
Malaysia Agreement
Article we of a agreement crystallised Sabah's standing within Malaysia. It reads: "The Colonies of North Borneo as well as Sarawak as well as a State of Singapore shall be federated with a existent States of a Federation of Malaya as a States of Sabah, Sarawak as well as Singapore in suitability with a inherent instruments annexed to this Agreement as well as a Federation shall afterward be called "Malaysia".
Proclamation of Malaysia
The final paragraph reads: "... that Malaysia comprising a States of Pahang, Trengganu, Kedah, Johore, Negri Sembilan, Kelantan, Selangor, Perak, Perlis, Penang, Malacca, Singapore, Sabah as well as Sarawak shall by a Grace of God, a Lord of a Universe, forever be an independent as well as emperor approved State founded on autocracy as well as justice".
The Inter-Governmental Committee Report
Read More @ Source Partly set up to work out a inherent arrangements of Malaysia, a cabinet remained steadfast on Sabah being a single of a fourteen states of a Federation around point 10 of Chapter II (Establishment of The Federation of Malaysia).
"The Federation will consist of a States of a existent Federation of Malaya, Sabah (at benefaction well well known as North Borneo), Sarawak as well as Singapore... The name of a Federation shall be Malaysia."
Malaysia Act 1963
Section 4, Part II (The States of a Federation) states: "...that a Federation shall be known, in Malay as well as English, by a name Malaysia. The States of a Federation shall be -- (a) a states of Malaya, namely, Johore, Kedah, Kelantan, Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Perlis, Selangor as well as Trengganu; as well as (b) a Borneo States, namely, Sabah as well as Sarawak; as well as (c) a State of Singapore".
As an MP from Sabah, we would gladly as well as readily determine if Sabah was to be a single out of 4 tools of Malaysia. Unfortunately, a papers above obviously settled otherwise.
They have been part of story that were extensively argued as well as subsequently agreed upon, drafted as well as jointly signed by Sabah leaders of a time.
- New Straits Times
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