By : CASSASCA LOPUZ
SABAH bard as well as film-maker Nadira Ilana, a leader of a Justin Louis Award in this year's Freedom Film Festival, talking about because she made The Silent Riot, a movie about a lost events of 1986 Sabah, months after a KL-backed Harris Salleh system of administration was narrowly defeated by resurgent Kadazan-Dusun nationalismin a 1985 state elections.
In an extraordinary philharmonic in a diminutive hours after a election, Sabah strongman Tun Datu Mustapha of Usno beseiged a Governor, demanding to be declared as arch apportion instead of Joseph Pairin Kitigan, a leader of Parti Bersatu Sabah, who had broken with Harris's Berjaya party. Pairin was finally declared a legitimate arch apportion by a court decision.
On Mar 12, seven plastic explosives were detonated in Kota Kinabalu, as well as a bomb detonated in Tawau. In a successive disturbances, five people died. RTM staged a running live radio programme from Kota Kinabalu of rioters holed up in a mosque as well as of police action to chase them.
There was little disbelief which this was part of a process of destabilising a Pairin government, palm in palm with enticements to PBS assemblymen to defect. There was little disbelief between KL domestic observers which a strongman supervision of Mahathir Mohamad strongly favoured strongman leadership, not patriotism of a opposite variety.
In May, a Pairin s! upervisi on called for an additional election, which it won, with a bigger margin. He was to win dual some-more elections, in 1990 as well as 1994, but then his followers immediately defected en masse to a Barisan Nasional in a coup engineered in KL after years of destabilisation efforts directed during a Kitingan brothers, with allegations of crime as well as secession.
Kadazandusun patriotism both flowered as well as withered underneath Kadazandusun leadership as well as which is a tale still untold, with usually drips as well as draps about a Kitigans, a late Donald Stephens as well as Peter Mojuntin.
But a subjugation of Sabah is often a tale of Malayan; definition Umno Malay expansionist neo-colonialism as well as with oil, joist as well as domestic crime upon a grand scale as a backdrop, featuring a usual KL suspects, between them Mahathir Mohamad; his deputies Musa Hitam as well as Ghafar Baba; of Rahim Noor, a policeman who propped up a Mahathir system of administration in 1987 as well as in 1997; of Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah as well as many, many others. Not forgetting, of course, a man many particularly linked to defections, Anwar Ibrahim, a "black-eye" victim of Rahim Noor's fist.
Blood as well as money. The fist or a sire in a other hand. That's Malaysian governing body as well as Malaysian democracy. Isn't it?
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