January 18, 2013
There is no Conspiracy Theory
by Raja Petra Kamaruddin
The important thing is, whilst Dr Mahathir might have been guilty of 'reversing' what Tunku Abdul Rahman did, he did not action alone. This was not the single man's devise on 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 we 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 toppled 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 equates to to assistance me demeanour during events from the fresh perspective. When we complicated story behind in the school days in Malaysia it was merely the investigate of dates as well as events, as well as might be the personalities during the behind of those events.
Later they altered the synopsis to design as well as we only marked the correct answer: A, B, C, D or E. That brought the level of preparation down drastically as well as infrequently we upheld your exams by only creation the propitious guess during what the right answer is.
Here in Oxford we need to demeanour during the broader picture to understand why what happened, happened. And if we apply the Oxford module rsther than than the 'Pendidekan Malaysia' module (I am not even sure of the 'modern' Malay spelling any more) afterwards the Sabah 'illegal immigrants given Malaysian citizenship' emanate can be improved understood.
Many of we celebration of the mass this are probab! ly utter ly young, born after Merdeka of 1957 or after 'May 13' of 1969 or might be we were still the kid afterwards as well as did not know what was happening around you. Hence we will demeanour during the 'Sabah issue' from today's perspective. And hence, also, we only wish to know who the guilty chairman is in what we consider the many heinous 'crime' in your perspective tantamount to treachery.
Now, we am not observant what they did in Sabah is authorised or illegal, or even dignified or immoral. This square is not about right as well as wrong. Historians do not pass judgement about events in history. They only break down in to parts 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 some of their powers. Hence the chosen as well as intellectuals amongst the Malays opposed the Malayan Union.
Yes, it was the Malay chosen class as well as the intellectual community as well as not the fishermen as well as farmers who opposed the Malayan Union. The kampong people did not really care given their lives would remain the same never mind who ran the country.
Because of this antithesis to the Malayan Union, in 1948 the British deserted 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 many years of negotiations (no red blood on the streets, as what UMNO tells us). One emanate of regard 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 eccentric Malaya had to catch them by giving them citizenship.
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 reduction 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 term as well as condition for agreeing to Merdeka for Malaya. If the Tunku did not determine afterwards the British would probably disagree to Merdeka for Malaya mainly given they had to 'protect' the some-more than the single million Chinese as well as Indians who would otherwise become stateless.
It was the sort 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 inhabitant denunciation as well as Islam the religion of the Federation). And afterwards Britain would accede to Malaya independence.
In 1955, dual years prior to Merdeka, the initial elections were hold in Malaya as well as the Alliance Party (a coalition 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 eccentric 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 violence in the Third General Election. It garnered reduction than 50% of the popular votes as well as lost its two-thirds infancy in Parliament.
The Alliance Party (meaning all three: U! MNO, MCA as well as MIC) knew which it was losing power. Hence Barisan Nasional was formed to reinstate the Alliance Party so which the antithesis parties could be brought in to the statute coalition. And which was how the Alliance Party got behind carry out of the nation by combining the brand new coalition with the antithesis parties (what we could call the 'unity government', we suppose).
But which was not sufficient as well as they needed to do more. Selangor, the valuables in the crown, was in risk (it still is today). So they combined brand 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 equates to 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 mean which Sabah as well as Sarawak would be the statute party's 'fixed deposit' as well as there was no approach 1969 could be steady as prolonged as Sabah as well as Sarawak remained under the statute party.
But which soon 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, yet again, the statute celebration was in risk of losing energy similar to what happened in 1969. And they were in risk of losing energy given the Muslims, who used to be 85-90% of the population, pre-Merdeka, had been marked down to the mere 50% or so in the initial instance when some-more than the single million Chinese as well as Indians had been given citizenship in 1957 as well as in the second instance when Sabah as well as Sarawak became partial of Malaysia as well as the Muslim race was widely separated even! further .
Hence Barisan Nasional (in particular UMNO) needed to dilute the non-Muslim population, in particular in their 'fixed deposit' states in East Malaysia which carry out the very critical 25% of the seats in Parliament as well as where the Muslims are not the infancy similar to in West Malaysia.
And which was when the thought was mooted to 'create' an additional Muslim race of during least the single million. And they could not wait for this to happen progressively over 50 years by encouraging 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 in to Sabah. The subsequent step was to 'import' the single million Muslims in to 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, positively 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 on how to squeeze behind and/or retain 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 thirty years after they 'balanced' this by extenuation citizenship to the single million unfamiliar Muslims. There was zero bootleg about what they did though either it was dignified or not is another thing altogether.
The important thing is, whilst Dr Mahathir might have been guilty of 'reversing' what Tunku Abdul Rahman did, he did not action alone. This was not the single man's devise on how to s! afeguard 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 we 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 toppled in 1994.
And this happened not given of the single man, Dr Mahathir, though given of what the supervision did. And Anwar was the pass chairman in which supervision during which time. Hence we would be very clever about how the Opposition plays up the Sabah emanate given if the law were to emerge it might 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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