THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
"Remember, you investigate story to try as good as assimilate the past, not to judge it." That was what my techer told me this morning. you think he is chiding me for being as good judgemental in my comments per the English Civil War as good as the dispute in between King Charles you as good as Parliament, the march you am now taking.
With which suggestion as the backdrop, you would like to give you my research per the current debate raging in Malaysia -- as good as which is the debate per the Sabah immigrants issue which is being investigated by the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI).
The Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) was formed upon 5th March 1985 as good as it won the state elections which were hold soon after which with Pairin Kitingan as Sabah's new Chief Minister.
During PBS's order of Sabah from 1985 to 1994, the lot of rumours were flying around Peninsula Malaysia, especially amongst the Malay-Muslim community. And what was being pronounced dumbfounded the Malays-Muslims from West Malaysia.
The initial gossip endangered Muslims in Sabah converting or returning to Christianity.
During the time of Tun Datu Haji Mustapha bin Datu Harun -- which is the period when Usno was ruling Sabah -- most non-Muslim locals were converted to Islam. From what you in Peninsula Malaysia heard, those who converted to Islam were! given l and as good as money, as good as were sponsored for the trip to Mekah. Hence, according to what the Sabahans told us, most locals converted to Islam for the financial rewards rsther than than given they believed in Islam.
When PBS took over the state government, it seems which most who converted to Islam earlier converted or went during the back of to Christianity. And this dissapoint the Muslims from Peninsula Malaysia. Whether this unequivocally did happen or not is another matter. This was what they were told as good as this was what everybody believed was happening. Hence this outraged the Muslims.
The next gossip was per who was allegedly during the back of PBS.
The gossip afterwards was which the Vatican was financing PBS by the Philippines. It seems this concerned the outrageous sum of money as good as the role of the Vatican was to settle the Christian supervision in Sabah.
Ultimately, the devise was for Sabah to lift out of Malaysia. Sabah would afterwards stick upon the Philippines, which has regularly claimed which Sabah belonged to the Philippines. (Read some-more per this make the difference below).
In 1991, the brother of the Sabah Chief Minister, Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, was incarcerated underneath the Internal Security Act (ISA) for allegedly plotting to take Sabah out of Malaysia. With the apprehension of Dr Jeffrey, this some-more or reduction 'confirmed' the gossip of the tract to take Sabah out of Malaysia as good as subsequently for Sabah to stick upon the Philippines.
Hence the Malays-Muslims from Peninsula Malaysia had to 'do something' to bring down the Christian supervision of Sabah as good as forestall 'Christian' Sabah from withdrawal Malaysia to stick upon the 'Christian' Philippines. And which would be to intermix the Christian race of Sabah by bringing in Muslims as good as giving them choosing by casting votes rights, meaning additionally temperament cards.
The Pri! me Minis ter during which period was Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as good as his Deputy was Anwar Ibrahim, who was additionally the Director of Operations for Barisan Nasional Sabah. However, this was not something which only those dual could lift off.
This was the Muslim contra Christian issue. This concerned the Vatican as good as the Philippines plotting to spin Sabah in to the Christian state as good as eventually lift Sabah out of Malaysia to turn partial of the Philippines.
Hence Seri Perdana, the army, the police, the Immigration Department, the National Registration Department, the Elections Commission, etc., all had to play the partial in gripping Sabah Muslim as good as to forestall Sabah from withdrawal Malaysia to turn partial of the Philippines.
This was the outrageous swindling which concerned most people as good as most supervision agencies. There may have been the couple of decision-makers during the tip though these people could not have pulled something this big off unless the complete supervision machinery was mobilised towards this effort.
Later, all those key people during the reduce level -- such as those from the Immigration Department, National Registration Department, as good as so upon -- were incarcerated underneath the ISA in the bid to silence them.
Just as good most people were concerned as good as it was as good risky to allow these people to ramble free where they could substantially talk. So they were dull up as good as incarcerated but trial. They could certainly not be put upon hearing where all the justification of their 'wrongdoing' would be revealed in court.
To the Sabahans, those from West Malaysia or from Kuala Lumpur have been traitors. To the Malays-Muslims from West Malaysia, those who managed to thwart the Vatican/Philippines tract to lift Sabah out of Malaysia to turn partial of the Philippines have been patriots who have served Islam well.
you suspect this brings me during th! e back o f to the march you am now taking. To the 'Roundheads', Charles you was the traitor to the Protestant cause. To the 'Cavaliers', Charles you was the victim of injustice. It all depends upon who is essay story as good as the victors as good as not the washed up regularly write history. And given Charles you mislaid the polite war as good as his conduct got chopped off, afterwards Charles who was 'weak' as good as compromised with the Catholics is the traitor whilst the Parliamentarians have been the patriots.
How will those people during the back of the pierce to thwart Sabah apropos Christian as good as thereafter withdrawal Malaysia to turn partial of the Philippines be viewed by historians, say, 100 years from today? you suspect it depends upon who will be essay those story books as good as this, again, will rely upon who the winners have been starting to be.
As my techer said, "Remember, you investigate story to try as good as assimilate the past, not to judge it." Hence you will not criticism upon possibly what they did was right or wrong. My job as the tyro of story is merely to relate what happened as good as state how you interpret those events. This will be how you am starting to pass my march during the end of March 2013.
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The Philippines' explain to Sabah (EXTRACT)
The Sultanate of Sulu was granted the domain as the esteem for helping the Sultan of Brunei against his enemies as good as from afterwards upon which partial of Borneo is famous as partial of the Sultan of Sulu's sovereignty. In 1878, Baron Von Overbeck, an Austrian partner representing The British North Borneo Co. as good as his partner British Alfred Dent, leased the domain well known as "Sabah" - rounded off translated as "the land beneath the winds". In return the association will yield arms to the Sultan to resist the spaniards as good as 5,000 Malaysian ringgits annual let based upo! n the Me xican dollars value during which time or its equivalent in gold. This lease has been continued until the autonomy as good as arrangement of the Malaysian federation in 1963 together with Singapore, Sarawak as good as Malaysia. Up to these days, the Malaysians have been continuing the let remuneration of 5,300 Malaysian ringgits - the 300 ringgits increased from strange rent.
In 1962 during the Pres. Diosdado Macapagal's administration department (the father of the present president, Glorio Arroyo), the Philippines formally claimed Sabah based upon the Sultanate of Sulu heirs' explain upon the territory. The Philippines broke diplomatic family with Malaysia after the federation have included "Sabah". The sultan's heirs have given the Philippine supervision the authority to aspire to the explain legally in general courts. However, the next administrations have possibly have ignored or set aside the explain for pacific co-existent as good as traffic propinquity with the Malaysians.
One poignant situation involving afterwards President Marcos have briefly brought in to limelight the Sabah explain once more. In 1972, the Marcos supervision have been training personally the group of Muslim Filipinos in Corregidor, an island off Manila Bay, for probable intrusion in Sabah to pave the way to an armed secession of Sabah from Malaysia. But upon knowing of the plans, the recruits have mutinied as good as were separated solely for the single which swam the brook as good as was rescued. The newspapers have called this incident, the "Jabidah Massacre" declared after the operation which was given by the military. The survivor emitted the devise as good as the explain was put in during the back of burner once more. It was hold which given of the incident, the Malaysians have been aiding the Muslim separatists against the Philippine government. Some people says this dreaming the attention to the explain upon Sabah as the supervision was inextricable in containing the conflict.
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REFERENCE:http://www.epilipinas.com/sabahclaim.htm
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How Philippines will eventually take Sabah (EXTRACT)
Much H2O has flowed underneath the overpass given the arrangement of Malaysia. Even though Malaysia gained autonomy by pacific means, it did not mean which the birth of the new nation was but labour pangs.
Sukarno of Indonesia as good as Macapagal of the Philippines were both against to the inclusion of the North Borneo domain in the Federation of Malaysia. Sukarno, it contingency be emphasised, had launched the Konfrontasi to crush Malaysia.
Macapagal was however reduction intense in his office against the arrangement of Malaysia, despite allegations in the initial half of 1968 which immature Suluk group were personally being trained in Corrigedor for the role of infiltrating as good as invading Sabah.
Successive Philippine governments have raised the make the difference of the explain over Sabah with the Malaysian supervision during various regional as good as general fora. At the single stage, they even in jeopardy to bring the make the difference to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for arbitration.
However, the Malaysian supervision has steadfastly refused to be the litigant upon the drift which Sabah had turn an constituent partial of Malaysia by the inherent as good as approved process.
That aside, the people of Sabah had strongly voiced their desire to be partial of the Federation of Malaysia underneath the protection of the United Nations-sponsored United Nations Malaysian Mission (UNMM) as good as the Lord Cobbold Commission.
Notwithstanding the above argument, the Philippine supervision has persisted to aspire to her explain of supervision over Sabah. Two books were published upon the claim, the ! single i n 1964 as good as the other in 1967, environment out the legal as good as historical bases of her explain upon Sabah; though the contents of the books were refuted by the Malaysian government's during the June-July 1968 meeting in Bangkok, most to the embarrassment of their Philippine counterparts.
G James, Malaysiakini(READ MORE HERE:http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/30940)
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