February 20, 2013
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Lahad Datu StandoffA Dangerous Precedent
by Pushparani Thilaganathan as well as Queville To
The current drama in Lahad Datu following a penetration of armed organisation from a Philippines as well as a government's "gentle" proceed to a situation could explode upon a Barisan Nasional leadership if it is indeed a tactical plan to scare Sabahans in to voting for a statute coalition.
"If this is a BN game, then it is a dangerous strategy," pronounced State Reform Party (STAR) chief Jeffrey Kitingan.
"It [the strategy] is a double-edged long knife since it can explode as well as cause a people to vote opposite a BN for a viewable disaster in flexing a [government's] troops flesh for a sake of inhabitant dignity as well as sovereignty.
"If a supervision cannot protect a republic as well as deal with this problem in a approach which will raise a station as a emperor nation, may be it's time for Malaysia to ask for international intervention," Jeffrey said, alluding to a event in in between a Police as well as a militants.
He was commenting upon drawn out rumours which a government's "no-bloodshed strategy" could be a tactic to opposite a flourishing political uncertainties in a state.
The protracted "negotiations" in in between a Police as well as a armed militants holed up in Felda Sahabat in Lahad Datu is testing a patience o! f locals as well as stoking a ire of villagers barred from entering a cordoned-off areas to lift out their daily slight as well as economic activities.
It has additionally not helped which sum of a "negotiations" have been withheld from a public, with a mainstream media "advised" to downplay a issue.
Left in a cold, Sabahans have been accessing online portals, blogs, tweets as well as social media for updates upon a incursions, withdrawal many to turn their own theories over a government's doing of a issue.
Said Jeffrey: "Why is there little media coverage in a government-controlled mainstream media nonetheless a penetration is bordering upon an act of war?Isn't Sabah important enough for all Malaysians to be kept posted upon a developments of a standoff? This is not a localised issue."
"Also, because have been a troops not receiving action upon rumours of disturbances in alternative areas in Sabah? Is it since these rumours have been being fired up by [BN] cybertroopers?"Is this whole thing a scripted sham to dismay a voters?" he asked.
Sabah not a 'fixed deposit'
It has been some-more than 10 days since a armed militants rumoured to be 400 organisation first landed in Lahad Datu upon Feb 9.
Villagers during Felda Sahabat, where these bandits have been holed up, fearing which they were members of a fearsome Abu Sayyaf militant group, immediately fled with their families.
They were awaiting a armed forces to clamp down upon a seige fast as well as to be means to lapse to a homes as well as routine.But a event remains with Home Affairs Minister Hishammuddin Hussein reportedly saying yesterday which a "situation is underneath control" as well as which they were "dealing" with it.
But extraordinary questions over whether a Police have been equipped to hoop such "negotiations with militants" as well as because a troops has been sidelined in these negotiations have usually stoked rumours of top-level political "! interven tion" as well as an opportunistic tactic by BN in view of a sinking popularity in Sabah.
The routinely certain hype churned out by a internal media over Sabah BN's "growing popularity" mocks a ground being prevailing in Sabah.
The fact is everybody from Chief Minister Musa Aman right down to a BN assemblymen is uncertain of their future, starting in to a 13th ubiquitous election, as well as have been desperately trying to engage individuals, NGOs as well as political nondescript persons.
To put it bluntly, Sabah UMNO as well as BN partners Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), MCA, Gerakan, MIC, Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS), Upko as well as Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) have been collectively in low trouble facing a arriving election.
The famous BN "fixed deposit" is no longer applicable here. There have been no longer any guarantees for BN.
Besides, a revelations made during a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) have shamed these celebration leaders for their boneless await of Umno's agenda which evenly marginalised a native KDMs as well as Christians as well as incited hundreds of shocked fence-sitters in to resolute opposition supporters.
The hearings have additionally influenced deep-set annoy inside of a communities opposite a legalized illegal immigrants.Such low anger, if "strategically" fanned could force a hand of a supervision to clamp down upon any civil unrest.
Bad augury for BN
Recent BN comprehension reports, nonetheless optimistic of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's particular appeal, noted which a statute bloc "could remove some-more than half" of a twenty-five parliamentary seats in Sabah.
Ground reports from a Opposition have put their wins during in in between 15 as well as eighteen seats.These reports have additionally indicated which BN could remove just over half of a 60 state seats up for grabs in a 13th ubiquitous election.
The augury for BN as well as Sabah UMNO as such is not good. And Putrajaya or UMNO cannot do without Sabah's wealth. Sabah is currently a politically flighty state for Najib as well as federal UMNO.
Describing Sabah as a state "in chaos", a university lecturer here, who declined to be named, pronounced "people have been just angry watch a [ballot] box".He noticed a government's proceed to a ultimate "siege" as "stupid".
"This is a security breach If armed Singaporeans slipped in to Johor Baru, would a authorities be this caring? Would they wish to give it some-more time to finalise a matter?" he asked, alluding to Hishammuddin's reported criticism which a situation was "under control" as well as which a supervision "was giving it a little bit some-more time for this make a difference to be resolved".
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