Yesterday, Dr Jeffrey Kitingan issued a press statement in which he contended, amongst other things, that Sabah is now ruled and colonised by UMNO.
I had said in that post that I agreed with this statement, but Sarawak, too, and Malaya, had suffered the same fate.
This post is a reproduction of something I posted here almost 2 years ago.
I am hoping that it will generate discussion on a matter which I feel is relevant to efforts that are slowly taking shape here, in Malaya, and in Sabah and Sarawak, to liberate our people from the post-British colonial power, UMNO / BN.
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We were all taught in school that on 16th September, 1963, the Federation of Malaysia, comprising fourteen states, eleven in Peninsula Malaysia or what was previously the Federation of Malaya, two from Borneo, being Sabah and Sarawak, and the island state of Singapore, was formed.
Two years later, in 1965, the island of Singapore was expelled from the federation.
Leaving thirteen states to make up that new federation.
So we were taught in school.
I found out differently this last weekend during the Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia forums in Kota Kinabalu and Kuching.
I found out that the agreement attained leading up to the formation of the Federation of Malaysia envisaged that the Federation of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore were to be equal partners in this newly founded federation.
And not that Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore were to become the 12th, 13th and 14th states in the existing Federation of Malaya, now to be callled Malaysia, being equal to the 1st to the 11th states comprised therein.
And yet, this is what we were taught in school.
I got the quote below from the “Memorandum on the Fate of Sabah in the Malaysian Federation”, delivered at the House of Commons, London, on 9th March, 2010.
“The granting of self-government too would enable Sabah to stand on its own feet as equal with Malaya, Sarawak and Singapore“ – Tunku Abdul Rahman, quoted in the Sabah Times, Jesselton, on 30th August, 1963.
Our history books in school gave a completely different picture.
Still quoting from that Memorandum :
“Today, more than forty six years after independence, the people of Sabah are asking what happened to these rosy pronouncements and assurances. In fact the Sabahans have always been seriously clarification as to why Sabah is now functioning as if it is only a colony of Kuala Lumpur…the reality today is that Sabah has become the 12th state of Malaya. Federal government leaders, dominated by Malayans, today can arbitrarily change, at their whims and fancies, whatever they wish to suit their needs and convenience. They even ignored the Twenty Points and the Malaysia Agreement and made it sensitive to even talk about them”.
Yet we were taught otherwise in school.
Have we been lied to all these years?
Is the history of this nation taught to us thus far, like the present PM’s 1Malaysia, a sham?
Have our brothers and sisters in Sabah and Sarawak been long cheated and denied that which is due them?
najib manaukau
January 19, 2012
That is what the deceitful and corrupted Umno parasites want the world to think so especially the people of Sarawak and Sabah ! Just like the Orang Asli , the original people of Malaya, who were the real natives of Malaya and the Head Hunters of West Malaya. And surely not the Indonesian refugees who came to Malaysia in overwhelming numbers to seek refuge for whatever the reasons. I might add that some of them, according to history, came as pirates, that the parasites are now trying to distort and change !
I wonder are they able to change the history of Australia that the white convicts from England are the natives and not the Aborigines, well, at least the whites don’t try to justify their actions by calling the Aborigines as pseudo English. Or the fortune seekers from Europe and the African slaves as pseudo Red Indians !
Dr. Amir
January 19, 2012
Dear Sir,
Telling lies is a norm to UMNO leaders, Nadzri has the guts to say Ministers wealth must not be made public, it will endanger them. All the millionaires of the world( top 100) had their wealth disclosed to the world and yet they are living happily ever after. They work hard to get to richness, but in Malaysia, our politicians had the plundering ways to their wealth? Prove to us how you accumulate your wealth, starting with Nadzri.
What worries him is not his wealth, but how he accumulated them. Through all the taxis permit allocated to BUMIPUTRA ? and he “sapu bersih’?. Now he wanted to stop BERSIH 3. He is one of the top UMNO guys who must be investigated when PR comes into power. It will be interesting to see how he made his multi-millions.
Reform to election rolls is very slow even though all has been recommended by PAC. This election must be on a level playing field, we only want that – there should be boxes after boxes of phantom votes and illegal postal votes and illegal votes. You can have all the media rights we dont care, without it PR will win provided no cheating
I will be there for BERSIH 3 EVEN THOUGH IF IT COST MY LIFE, I DID IT FOR MY CHILDREN AND FUTURE GENERATION.
cruzeiro
January 19, 2012
You bet, Haris!!
We’ve all been lied to all these years- and the Sabahan leaders sold out bigtime … simply because “Islam” played a major role in this “colonization”.
It started with the demise of Fuad Stephens and Kalong Ningkan as leaders of Sabah & Sarawak respectively.
It is time we acknowledge that fact an not allow BN, UMNO or Pakatan perpetuate this colonization- and give Sabah Sarawak their due.
PS
Did you hear what Nazri said in the forum with Husam & Rashid in justifying the numerous MyKads given to the Pilaks (Filipinos) in Sabah? You can bet on it that Sarawak is doing the same to a lesser extent.
alex abraham
January 19, 2012
Harris,
A clean and efficient government which the Kitingan brothers had an opportunity to put in place, as is hopefully being achieved in Penang, would have put paid to the Federal Govt bullying tactics together with policies which will continue to keep the ones ruling it now in place, by the issue of citizenship etc etc Dont forget, TDM had made it DSAI’s task to corner Sabah for Umno’s influence to be spread. Thats why Taib has always ensured that Umno never establishes itself there and in turn, parliamentary support for the Barisan is the quid pro quo
cheers
alex abraham
Paul Warren
January 19, 2012
But these lies got started well before UMNO became the ruling party of the post Merdeka Malaya. The British convinced not just us but also their colonies Australia and New Zealand that the communists had started a campaign to win Malaya for who ever their ideological masters were. They got their troops as well as those from Australia and New Zealand going into our forests to weed out the communists who belonged to the Communist Party of Malaya. In the coming Anzac day celebrations I New Zealand and Australia, those who lost their lives here are going to be remembered and mourned. Yet, until recently we never realised that the primary motivation for declaring the Emergency and bringing in the troops was to get the insurance companies in London to pay for property loss and damage caused by the communists. Apparently property loss and damage during times of peace was not covered by the policies then and the Colonial government had been asked to compensate.
Merdeka itself has been taunted as a great feat fought for by UMNO and its leaders. But really if they had fought for it as hard as they make it out to be and that Merdeka itself was such a great victory how was it that it left a substantial part of the revenue generating assets in the form of the plantation and tin mining companies in the hand of the retreating British hands? I suppose the figures that we ought to look at at the time of Merdeka should be the GDP figures to see how much of it belonged to the British.
Lynn Cheang
January 19, 2012
Yes, Haris, we have all been lied too and especially so for East Malaysians, their very right to be an equal partner to Malaya was taken away almost as soon as they agreed to merge with Malaya to form Malaysia. East Malaysian children then and now are being innocently indoctrined via our BTN education syllabus to innocently accept that they are all living in Musilmland, have their majority Christian religion sidelined, and accept their fate as a step-child of this so-called 1Malaysia.
Recently I was driving pass the government’s Printing Office and notice a surau in its very limited compound that led me thinking…. how may Muslim are there in Sarawak that you need to have a surau in almost every government building; yet none of them have facilities for a small chapel when majority of Sarawakians are christians, especially native Sarawakians?
I was thinking are we Sarawakians that docile that we don’t even assert ourselves? Then of course it dawned on me that the BTN education has succeeded in brainwashing my fellow brethens to accept the domination of UMNO just as their forefathers had accepted the domination by the British governors.
On my part, I try to bring this point up in private conversation or cyberspace whenever possible and on sites such as Taib Must Go, Baru Bian for CM and sites most visited by East Malaysians such as Hornbill Unleased, Dayak Baru, etc. I feel it is necessary to help keep the ambers and memory of Sabah and Sarawak’s mangled status alive such that one day soon, I hope the ambers will be stoked enough to fire up East Malaysians to courageously make a stand for what is due to them.
Teoh Ching Siang
January 19, 2012
History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars.
leekh
January 19, 2012
I wonder what historian Khoo Kay Kim has to say? Or has he been asleep all this while? when he came out with HangLiPo I was wondering when did he become aware of that fact? Last week? last month? or 20 years ago?
Francis Ngu
January 20, 2012
There was no referendum for the people of Sabah and Sarawak for the formation of Malaysia, as TDM would have us believe. The presumptive assessment by the UN Commission was that 1/3 of the Sarawak population were in support, 1/3 against and 1/3 undecided (read uninformed or poorly informed, being illiterate.) Thus the Federation was formed without a solid mandate from the people of Sarawak, but imposed upon them by the British colonial government and the Malayan government.
I was 12 years old in 1963, sufficiently aware and informed at the time.
Ganesh Panadam
January 20, 2012
No matter what is said and done, it is the people of Sabah and Sarawak who MUST rise above all to stake their rightful place in Sabah & Sarawak…. Don’t expect the politicians of West Malaysia to dictate what needs to be done…. If the very people of Sabah and Sarawak continue to live in fear of dying for their rights and not challenge their oppresors, for the next 10 years Sabah & Sarawak will be nothing but a memory, thanx to UMNO and her cronies… Get rid of Musa and Taib and UMNO now… Dun talk. Just do it.
sang kancil
January 20, 2012
That KKK guy is but a dUMNO bafoon. Do not waste any time on this chap. Let us soldier on with ABU.
Krishna Singh
January 21, 2012
It was Joseph Pairin who sold Sabah to UMNO.