FROM THE BOTTOM HEART OF SABAHAN

By : LIM KIT SIANG

I WILL lift a issue of a Keningau Batu Sumpah in Parliament to support my offer for a RCI upon either expectations of Sabahans as well as Sarawakians in combining Malaysia had been over or tricked in past 50 years.

On a 49th Malaysia Day upon Sunday, Catholic Bishop Datuk Cornelius Piong in his summary questioned if a 49-year-old agreement symbolised by a Keningau Batu Sumpah to defend religious freedom as well as alternative local rights as well as etiquette had been kept.

Piong pronounced which 49 years ago leaders from a federation of Malaya betrothed a people of Sabah they would progress together as well as have their simple tellurian rights protected, as partial of a campaign to convince them to join forces as well as form Malaysia, with partner states Sarawak as well as Singapore.

The 3 pass pledges Piong highlighted were guarantees which Sabahans would have freedom of religion, their local land would be under arrest by a state government as well as a sovereign government would apply oneself as well as strengthen Sabah local customs.

"Are these promises still being reputable as well as honoured?" Piong asked in his Malaysia Day message.

He said:"The agreement was forged upon an oath mill (Batu Sumpah Peringatan) which is still visible review as well as remembered."

you initial visited a Keningau district council's administration centre in Mar 2010 together with DAP MPs Hiew King ! Cheu (Ko ta Kinabalu), Teo Nie Ching (Serdang), Lim Lip Eng (Segambut) as well as Jimmy Wong (Sabah State Assemblyman for Sri Tanjong) where a Oath Stone still stands, as well as engraved upon a Oath Stone have been a words:

"BATU SUMPAH MENGIKUT PERLEMBAGAAN

1.Ugama Bebas dalam Sabah

2.Tanah Tanah dalam Sabah di kuasai oleh Kerajaan Sabah

2.Adat istiadat anak rayat Sabah dihormatkan dan dipelihara oleh Kerajaan.

Sebalik pula rayat2 Sabah di dalam interior bersumpah taat setia kepada Kerajaan Malaysia."

After my Mar 2010 revisit to a Keningau Batu Sumpah, you had asked: "These were a conditions of a oath of loyalty of a Sabahans from a interior five decades ago in exchange for a formation of Malaysia. Have these solemn pledges laid out in a Keningau Batu Sumpah been honoured by both sides?"

Two weeks ago, as partial of a DAP Sabah state-wide "Janji Ditepati" Public Hearings, you returned to Keningau as well as together with a MP for Tuaran, Datuk Seri Wilfred Bumburing, revisited a ancestral Keningau Oath Stone as well as you came away more convinced of a legitimacy as well as aptitude of a offer you had made in Parliament after my initial revisit to a Keningau Oath Stone in Mar 2010 which there should bea Royal Commission of Inquiry to assess either a dreams as well as aspirations of Sabahans as well as Sarawakians in combining Malaysia had been over or tricked in a past five decades.

you had pronounced in 2010 which such a RCI would be a most suggestive way of preparing for a 50th anniversary of Malaysia Day upon 16th Sep 2013, as well as although there is reduction than a year left to a 50th Malaysia Day anniversary celebrations next September, a reasons for such a RCI stays valid, receptive to advice as well as pertinent.

yo u will repeat my call for a RCI to assess either a dreams as well as aspirations of Sabahans as well as Sarawakians in combining Malaysia had been over or tricked in a past five decades when Parliament reconvenes next week, as well as you will highlight a Keningau Oath Stone as a centrepiece of my argument for a establishment of such a RCI so which all MPs, not only from Sabah, but from Sarawak as well as Peninsular Malaysia learnof this ancestral Oath Stone of Keningau.