January 18, 2013
There is no Conspiracy Theory
by Raja Petra Kamaruddin
The important thing is, whilst Dr Mahathir may have been guilty of 'reversing' what Tunku Abdul Rahman did, he did not action alone. This was not the single man's devise upon how to safeguard which Barisan Nasional as well as UMNO do not remove power. It was the GOVERNMENT plan, with Dr Mahathir as conduct of which government, of course. And you contingency recollect which in 1991 Anwar was Malaysia's Finance Minister as well as in 1993 he became the Deputy Prime Minister. And the 'Christian' supervision of Sabah was defeated in 1994.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Over the last dual years my studies in British as well as European story has been able to assistance me look during events from the uninformed perspective. When you studied story behind in our school days in Malaysia it was merely the investigate of dates as well as events, as well as may be the personalities during the behind of those events.
Later they altered the synopsis to objective as well as you only noted the correct answer: A, B, C, D or E. That brought the turn of education down drastically as well as infrequently you upheld your exams by only making the propitious theory during what the right answer is.
Here in Oxford you need to look during the broader design to assimilate since what happened, happened. And if you apply the Oxford procedure rsther than than the 'Pendidekan Malaysia' procedure (I am not even certain of the 'modern' Malay spelling any more) afterwards the Sabah 'illegal immigrants given Malaysian citizenship' emanate can be improved understood.
Many of you reading this have been substantially qui! te young , innate after Merdeka of 1957 or after 'May 13' of 1969 or may be you were still the kid afterwards as well as did not know what was function around you. Hence you will look during the 'Sabah issue' from today's perspective. And hence, also, you only want to know who the guilty chairman is in what you consider the most heinous 'crime' in your perspective tantamount to treachery.
Now, you am not observant what they did in Sabah is legal or illegal, or even dignified or immoral. This piece is not about right as well as wrong. Historians do not pass settlement about events in history. They only analyse what happened as well as what, in their opinion, were the causes of which event.
First let us go to behind to 1946, the year UMNO was formed. In 1946, the British Colonial supervision introduced the Malayan Union, which marked down the powers of the Raja-raja Melayu (Malay Rulers). This, in turn, meant which the Malays would remove the little of their powers. Hence the chosen as well as intellectuals amongst the Malays against the Malayan Union.
Yes, it was the Malay chosen class as well as the egghead village as well as not the fishermen as well as farmers who against the Malayan Union. The kampong people did not unequivocally caring since their lives would remain the same never mind who ran the country.
Because of this antithesis to the Malayan Union, in 1948 the British abandoned the thought as well as instead introduced the Federation of Malaya or Persekutuan Tanah Melayu.
Next came the thought of Merdeka or independence. And this took most years of negotiations (no blood upon the streets, as what UMNO tells us). One emanate of concern to Britain was what to do with the some-more than the single million Chinese as well as Indians after Malaya was given Merdeka. They can't be sent behind to China as well as India so an independent Malaya had to catch them by giving them citizenship.
Now, note what Tun! Dr Maha thir Mohamad pronounced yesterday. He pronounced which Tunku Abdul
Rahman was worse. The Tunku gave citizenship to some-more than the single million foreigners. Maybe Dr Mahathir is perplexing to contend which he gave citizenship to less than the single million foreigners.
What Dr Mahathir did not explain is which the Tunku had to determine to the extenuation of citizenship to some-more than the single million Chinese as well as Indians, which was the British tenure as well as condition for agreeing to Merdeka for Malaya. If the Tunku did not determine afterwards the British would substantially disagree to Merdeka for Malaya mainly since they had to 'protect' the some-more than the single million Chinese as well as Indians who would differently turn stateless.
It was the arrange of traffic off. Malaya would catch the some-more than the single million Chinese as well as Indians. The Chinese as well as Indians, in turn, contingency determine to special privileges for the Malays (plus Malay becomes the national denunciation as well as Islam the sacrament of the Federation). And afterwards Britain would accede to Malaya independence.
In 1955, dual years before Merdeka, the initial elections were hold in Malaya as well as the Alliance Party (a bloc of UMNO, MCA as well as MIC) won 51 of the 52 seats. That meant the Alliance Party was 'stable' as well as could order an independent Malaya with the transparent mandate from the voters. Two years later, in 1957, Malaya gained independence.
But which 'honeymoon' was short-lived. Twelve years later, in 1969, the Alliance celebration perceived the beating in the Third General Election. It garnered less than 50% of the popular votes as well as lost the two-thirds infancy in Parliament.
The Alliance Party (meaning all three: UMNO, MCA as we! ll as MI C) knew which it was losing power. Hence Barisan Nasional was shaped to reinstate the Alliance Party so which the antithesis parties could be brought into the statute coalition. And which was how the Alliance Party got behind carry out of the nation by forming the new bloc with the antithesis parties (what you could call the 'unity government', you suppose).
But which was not sufficient as well as they indispensable to do more. Selangor, the jewel in the crown, was in risk (it still is today). So they combined new 'Malay' cities, such as Shah Alam, as well as 'flooded' these cities with Malays to 'dilute' the Chinese voters.
Then they combined the apart Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur so which the infancy Chinese in Kuala Lumpur could be 'kicked out' of Selangor. Thus the statute celebration can afford to remove Kuala Lumpur though they would not additionally remove Selangor.
By then, of course, Malaysia had been combined with the agreement which 25% of the Parliament seats would come from Sabah as well as Sarawak. This would meant which Sabah as well as Sarawak would be the statute party's 'fixed deposit' as well as there was no way 1969 could be steady as long as Sabah as well as Sarawak remained underneath the statute party.
But which shortly altered in 1985 when PBS, seen as the Christian-based party, kicked out the 'Muslim' supervision as well as replaced it with the 'Christian' government.
This meant, nonetheless again, the statute celebration was in risk of losing energy similar to what happened in 1969. And they were in risk of losing energy since the Muslims, who used to be 85-90% of the population, pre-Merdeka, had been marked down to the small 50% or so in the initial example when some-more than the single million Chinese as well as Indians had been given citizenship in 1957 as well as in the second example when Sabah as well as Sarawak became part of Malaysia as well as the Muslim race was diluted even further.
Hence Barisan Nasiona! l (in pa rticular UMNO) indispensable to dilute the non-Muslim population, in particular in their 'fixed deposit' states in East Malaysia which carry out the really critical 25% of the seats in Parliament as well as where the Muslims have been not the infancy similar to in West Malaysia.
And which was when the thought was mooted to 'create' an additional Muslim race of during slightest the single million. And they could not wait for for this to happen gradually over 50 years by enlivening Malays to have some-more children. They had to 'fast track' this exercise, which equates to they had to 'import' the population.
The initial step was for UMNO to get into Sabah. The subsequent step was to 'import' the single million Muslims into Sabah as well as give them citizenship. In 1994, this practice over those couple of years proved successful when the 'Christian' supervision got kicked out as well as the 'Muslim' supervision took over the state as well as has hold it ever since.
Now, certainly Dr Mahathir was Prime Minister of Malaysia during which time. But it was the Barisan Nasional supervision (which equates to it was some-more than only UMNO) which came out with this diversion devise upon how to squeeze behind and/or keep energy by diluting the non-Muslim race by importing the large Muslim population.
In 1957, they postulated citizenship to the single million 'foreign' Chinese as well as Indians as well as 30 years later they 'balanced' this by extenuation citizenship to the single million foreign Muslims. There was nothing illegal about what they did though either it was dignified or not is another thing altogether.
The important thing is, whilst Dr Mahathir may have been guilty of 'reversing' what Tunku Abdul Rahman did, he did not action alone. This was not the single man's devise upon how to safeguard which Barisan Nasio! nal as w ell as UMNO do not remove power. It was the GOVERNMENT plan, with Dr Mahathir as conduct of which government, of course. And you contingency recollect which in 1991 Anwar was Malaysia's Finance Minister as well as in 1993 he became the Deputy Prime Minister. And the 'Christian' supervision of Sabah was defeated in 1994.
And this happened not since of the single man, Dr Mahathir, though since of what the supervision did. And Anwar was the key chairman in which supervision during which time. Hence you would be really careful about how the Opposition plays up the Sabah emanate since if the truth were to arise it may cost PKR the lot of votes in Sabah. And if they can't win Sabah afterwards they can't form the subsequent sovereign government.
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