This zeal to greatfully is quite puzzling, since Malaysia has been, if anything, rather conceited insofar as a Philippines is concerned. One remembers which 1,200 Filipino done at home helpers were dull up in a Catholic church in Malaysia as they were attending Mass. But never thoughts religious sensibilities. What about a audacity with courtesy to a assent talks, perplexing to tell us what to do or what not to do? Or, a latest, a warding off to spin over Aman Futures' Manuel Amalilio?
Solita Collas-Monsod, Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Sultanate of Sulu as well as North Borneo, now headed by Jamalul Kiram III, who can trace his origin at slightest 500 years behind (the sultanate was founded in 1465)how most Filipinos can go behind which far?still strikes me as a tragic institution, a plant of greed, opportunism, as well as indifference quite during a second half of a history.
Only consider: There was Spain, which forced it to accept Spain's supervision over "Jolo as well as a dependencies," afterwards turned around as well as ceded North Borneo (which was not a dependency of Jolo though had been awarded to a sultanate by a Sultan of Brunei in 1685 in thankfulness for a former's assistance in quelling a 10-year rebellion which had devastated Brunei) to Britain underneath a supposed Madrid Protocol among Spain, Britain as well as Germany. It contingency be forked out which Spain did a same thing to a Philippines: It ceded us to a United States even if we were no longer a former colonizer's to cede.
Then there was Britain, which first spoken in 1883 which it insincere no supervision over Borneo, though afterwards 5 years after done a dependency of North Borneo, as well as eventually in 1946 (10 days after Philippine independence, thoughts you), annexed North Borneo as partial of a British Dominion! s, in an noy of grave reminders in a interim by a US supervision which Sabah (the other name of North Borneo) was not Britain's, though belonged to a Sultanate of Sulu.
And then, of course, there is Malaysia, which, 135 years after a Sultanate of Sulu leased North Borneo to a private British association (later well known as a British North Borneo Co.), is still paying a sultanate radically a same lease as in a strange agreement (later slightly mutated since of a single more territory). Last year, for example, a Sultan perceived a little over P200,000 as lease payments for a total of Sabah.
Sabah's land area is over 73,000 block kilometers. Do a arithmetic: The Sultanate of Sulu is paid something like P2.74 per block kilometer in rent. For a Reader's delectation, a single block kilometer is next to to a single million block meters.
And has a sultanate gotten improved treatment from a Philippines? On a whole, unfortunately, a answer has to be NO. President Aquino as well as President Gloria Arroyo never even worried to acknowledge, most less reply to, a minute they any got from Sultan Kiram III, who was not even asking for assistance with courtesy to Sabah.
President Fidel Ramos, if a single recalls correctly, was in preference of renouncing a Philippine explain to Sabah (without consulting a Sultan); President Cory Aquino's administration department vowed to finalise a make a difference a single approach or anotherand did not; President Ferdinand Marcos, after his disastrous, bungled attempt (Operation Merdekah) allegedly to invade as well as take over Sabah, voiced in 1977 at an Asean assembly (again but consulting a Sultan) which a Philippines would renounce a explain to Sabah (he did not follow through).
The only President who done critical attempts to explain Sabah, it seems, was President Diosdado Macapagal. And with him we can begin to identify a great guys who appeared in a odyssey of a Sultanate of Sulu.
The United States c! ontingen cy take a bow as a single of a great guys. As referred to above, it gave grave reminders to Britain which Sabah belonged to a Sultanate of Sulu, as well as it was an American, former administrator general Francis Harrison, who laid open Britain's act of annexing North Borneo 10 days after a Philippines gained a independence, as an act of "political aggression."
But it was not until 1962 which a Philippines (under Diosdado Macapagal) attempted to flex a muscles, with Indonesia an ally (Indonesia wasn't as well penetrating possibly upon North Borneo being partial of a Malaysian Federation, saying as roughly a rest of Borneo is partial of Indonesia). And here an additional great man contingency be identified: journalist Napoleon Rama, whose array of articles in a Philippines Free Press patrician "North Borneo Belongs to Us" lifted an conflict as well as galvanized public opinion.
Then there was Jovito Salonga, who led a legislature's support for a cause. Macapagal even wrote afterwards US President John F. Kennedy, as if looking his help, as well as began talks with Britain (not most happened). Not so trivia: Macapagal referred to in his minute which Sabah is only eighteen miles from a Philippines as well as 1,000 miles from Malaya (the Malayan peninsula).
The move to finish Malaysia's "hegemony" patently petered out. But what we cannot understand at this point is since a supervision seems to be unduly concerned to greatfully Malaysia. When a Philippines was to horde a Asean, afterwards Sen. Letty Shahani introduced a bill in a Senate proposing to give up a explain to Sabah. (This was stopped in a tracks by Jovito Salonga, who said which any giving up of claims contingency be conditioned upon a protection of a proprietorial rights of a Sultan of Sulu. When a Malaysian aristocrat came a-visiting, there was also an additional move to give up a claim, though Congress apparently refused to cooperate.)
This zeal to greatfully is quite puzzling, since Malays! ia has b een, if anything, rather conceited insofar as a Philippines is concerned. One remembers which 1,200 Filipino done at home helpers were dull up in a Catholic church in Malaysia as they were attending Mass. But never thoughts religious sensibilities. What about a audacity with courtesy to a assent talks, perplexing to tell us what to do or what not to do? Or, a latest, a warding off to spin over Aman Futures' Manuel Amalilio?
Is some self-respect upon a partial as well most to ask?
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