We don't usually get this opportunity to locate Dr Mahathir Mohamad red handed. The on-going Royal Commission of Inquiry upon immigrants in Sabah had been demanded by Sabahans for years. Finally, during this 13th ubiquitous election, Umno just couldn't evade their direct anymore. This is what a Althusserians used to call "contradictions coming to a conjuncture"!
"Citizenship for votes" we all knew of it throughout a eighties as good as nineties though similar to so many alternative instances of Barisan Nasional artfulness in Malaysia, we had seethed in a helplessness.
My old professor of Government, Samuel Finer used to say: "This is similar to intrigue during chess!" Liberal democracy is supposed to be similar to a game of chess, so collaring new immigrants as good as giving them writings to vote in an choosing is just not cricket!
Needless to say, a Sabahans have had it up to here! And that is why Ah Jib Gor had to accede to their direct for a RCI if he was to try as good as keep his "fixed deposit" in Sabah. And once a ex-officials begin spilling a beans, there you have it!
But not one for appreciating a bounds of logic as good as a rule of law, Dr Mahathir has attempted to chuck up dust to try to cover up his fingerprints all over a scene by raising a fake analogy with a Reid Commission's recommendations in a Independence package in 1957.
Contrary to what Dr Mahathir has tried to imply, citizenship for a Chinese as good as Indian Malayans during a time was not Tunku's privilege to dispense!
The extenuation of citizenship rights to a non-Malays had been one of a main demands of a jingoist movement joined around a Pan Malayan Council of Joint Action, PMCJA-PUTERA.
Far from grabbing new immigrants as good as issuing them writings so they can vote as unprotected in a Sabah! RCI, a incident just prior to Independence in Malaya was in pointy contrast: In 1950, only 500,000 Chinese Malayans as good as 230,000 Indian Malayans had citizenship even though by 1947, some-more than three-fifths of a Chinese Malayans as good as half a Indian Malayans were internal born. (Federation of Malaya Annual report 1950; MV de Tufo, A Report of a 1947 Census of Population) The jus soli element alone was enough to franchise them.
The British colonial energy had been practising a divide-and-rule strategy in Malaya by withholding citizenship for a non-Malays as good as resorting to expulsion (to China as good as India) to deal with those who wouldn't attend especially during a Emergency (1948-60).
Thus, a some-more liberal citizenship condition under a Malayan Union in 1946 (which was a universal direct during a just liberated universe of human rights) was tightened up in a Federation of Malaya Agreement of 1948 because of a objections by Umno during a time. The last Merdeka arrangement was a domestic concede temperament in mind a various domestic forces whilst a Emergency was still on-going.
This RCI upon immigrants in Sabah is an useful opportunity for us all to uncover a black operations behind elections in Malaysia. The RCI must spare no effort in exposing a total shenanigan together with subpoenaing a former prime apportion Dr Mahathir as good as his then deputy, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who was in assign of Sabah operations.
This scandal is as big as "Watergate", which led to a impeachment of then US President Richard Nixon in a 1970s. The perpetrators of this electoral deceit must be brought to justice. We know a Barisan Nasional's jot down as far as carrying out a recommendations of RCIs is concerned. The dual most glaring examples are a Athi Nayappan RCI upon internal government elections in a sixties as good as a some-more new one recommending a Independent Police Complaints as good as Misconduct Commission. We are still waiting for thes! e recomm endations to be implemented!
We positively expect some-more of Pakatan Rakyat if they do come to power, together with implementing a recommendations of all a RCIs cited as good as prosecuting those responsible for besmirching a institutions of giveaway as good as acceptable elections in Malaysia.
The failure of a RCI to bring this exploration to a acceptable end will forever bring in to question a legitimacy of elections in Malaysia.
* This is a personal perspective of a writer or publication as good as does not indispensably represent a views of The Malaysian Insider
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