by Joe Fernandez
MY TAKE We are told that the Malaysia Agreement, had it been complied with in 1963, would have been 50 years old this year.
Sabah opposition strongman Jeffrey Kitingan has been in the forefront for many years in calling for the Federal Government to comply, whatever that means, with the Malaysia Agreement. He wants a compliance mechanism to be set up and probably headed by him like a latter day Huguan Siou (Paramount Chief).
If Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak apologises profusely to Sabahans and Sarawakians for 16 Sept, 1963 and offers Jeffrey a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Malaysia Agreement (Compliance Mechanism), like what he offered on Indian rights to Hindraf Makkal Sakthi chairman P. Waythamoorthy, he would no doubt jump up and down in his birthday suit with great joy in the high country in Tambunan and break open the rice wine bottles for an orgy of feasting, drinking, dancing and singing that would go on well past the next Pesta Kaamatan. Also, he probably would not only fall down and worship the man, but kiss his feet and his overkissed ample sun-protected Bugis butt as well.
Paul Low of Transparency International Malaysia is still kissing it -- "corruption will take some time to weed out", "no country is free of corruption", "anyway Malaysia is not that corrupt" -- and has erected a replica of Najib's butt for a shrine at home. How Low will Paul go!
At least, Waytha didn't engage in any shameful behaviour although his call to return the two-thirds majority to Barisan Nasional (BN) during GE13 was a monumental and unforgiveable blunder. He probably got more than a little carried away in a moment of weakness after signing the MOU.
Butt kissing would be nothing new to Jeffrey.
He kissed then Kerala-arrived Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's overtanned -- read black -- butt in 1994, reportedly with the blessing of his elder brother Joseph Pairin Kitingan, but nothing came out of it. Mahathir, being the no good lying son-of-a-bitch Malayalee devil that he was, wasn't impressed! He wanted the Kitingans out for good. He felt that Sabah was his grandfather's property. The brothers were simply standing in his way like annoying little Dusun mosquitoes in cawats who should know better than to cross "the great man that he was, as he had led himself to believe in his twisted Kerala mind".
Jeffrey has been confusing and distorting the Malaysia Agreement non-issue for many years for his own, narrow, selfish political ends and getting away with it in the face of widespread public ignorance, the tribal mindset of the Orang Asal -- Dusnic and Murutic groupings -- and even apathy especially among the Chinese who are universally anti-Malaysia. The Suluk and Bajau, having been marginalised and disenfranchised by Malaysia, are still in a state of shock after not knowing what hit them.
Like the Suluk and Bajau, the Chinese in Sabah consider the Orang Asal, Jeffrey in particular, as totally unreliable. The Orang Asal would have to redeem themselves in the eyes of the non-Orang Asal or continue to see Malaya occupy Sabah, Sarawak as well, for the next 50 years.
For example, in the recent GE13, Jeffrey's Star even fielded candidates in Suluk areas which he had conceded to the pro-tem Usno under a seat-sharing formula. Luckily, the Suluks didn't hit back after having been convinced by vice chairman Phillip Among that the double-cross was in fact perpetrated by some moles in Star on the take in millions from BN and their moneybags. Jeffrey was able to win the Bingkor state seat. The Chinese there and the two nearby state seats refused to vote for him and, as a result, he lost in the Keningau parliamentary seat.
If Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak apologises profusely to Sabahans and Sarawakians for 16 Sept, 1963 and offers Jeffrey a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Malaysia Agreement (Compliance Mechanism), like what he offered on Indian rights to Hindraf Makkal Sakthi chairman P. Waythamoorthy, he would no doubt jump up and down in his birthday suit with great joy in the high country in Tambunan and break open the rice wine bottles for an orgy of feasting, drinking, dancing and singing that would go on well past the next Pesta Kaamatan. Also, he probably would not only fall down and worship the man, but kiss his feet and his overkissed ample sun-protected Bugis butt as well.
Paul Low of Transparency International Malaysia is still kissing it -- "corruption will take some time to weed out", "no country is free of corruption", "anyway Malaysia is not that corrupt" -- and has erected a replica of Najib's butt for a shrine at home. How Low will Paul go!
At least, Waytha didn't engage in any shameful behaviour although his call to return the two-thirds majority to Barisan Nasional (BN) during GE13 was a monumental and unforgiveable blunder. He probably got more than a little carried away in a moment of weakness after signing the MOU.
Butt kissing would be nothing new to Jeffrey.
He kissed then Kerala-arrived Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's overtanned -- read black -- butt in 1994, reportedly with the blessing of his elder brother Joseph Pairin Kitingan, but nothing came out of it. Mahathir, being the no good lying son-of-a-bitch Malayalee devil that he was, wasn't impressed! He wanted the Kitingans out for good. He felt that Sabah was his grandfather's property. The brothers were simply standing in his way like annoying little Dusun mosquitoes in cawats who should know better than to cross "the great man that he was, as he had led himself to believe in his twisted Kerala mind".
Jeffrey has been confusing and distorting the Malaysia Agreement non-issue for many years for his own, narrow, selfish political ends and getting away with it in the face of widespread public ignorance, the tribal mindset of the Orang Asal -- Dusnic and Murutic groupings -- and even apathy especially among the Chinese who are universally anti-Malaysia. The Suluk and Bajau, having been marginalised and disenfranchised by Malaysia, are still in a state of shock after not knowing what hit them.
Like the Suluk and Bajau, the Chinese in Sabah consider the Orang Asal, Jeffrey in particular, as totally unreliable. The Orang Asal would have to redeem themselves in the eyes of the non-Orang Asal or continue to see Malaya occupy Sabah, Sarawak as well, for the next 50 years.
For example, in the recent GE13, Jeffrey's Star even fielded candidates in Suluk areas which he had conceded to the pro-tem Usno under a seat-sharing formula. Luckily, the Suluks didn't hit back after having been convinced by vice chairman Phillip Among that the double-cross was in fact perpetrated by some moles in Star on the take in millions from BN and their moneybags. Jeffrey was able to win the Bingkor state seat. The Chinese there and the two nearby state seats refused to vote for him and, as a result, he lost in the Keningau parliamentary seat.
Other activists in Borneo have been screaming themselves hoarse for the restoration of the autonomy of Sabah and Sarawak, whatever that means. These point out rather proudly that the two Borneo Nations in Malaysia are not the 12th and 13th states in the Federation but in fact equal partners of Malaya.
Among these is the Sabah Progressive Party (Sapp) which broke away from the Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) in 1994 and was in cahoots with Umno to bring down the Sabah state government. Sapp, more than anybody else in recent history, has done the most to compromise the autonomy of Sabah, if there's any such thing. Now that they are out of BN -- they quit on 17 Sept, 2008 -- they are screaming autonomy once again in a bid to reinvent themselves. The result is that the party didn't win even one seat in the recent GE13 and lost its deposit in almost all the seats where it contested.
Among these is the Sabah Progressive Party (Sapp) which broke away from the Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) in 1994 and was in cahoots with Umno to bring down the Sabah state government. Sapp, more than anybody else in recent history, has done the most to compromise the autonomy of Sabah, if there's any such thing. Now that they are out of BN -- they quit on 17 Sept, 2008 -- they are screaming autonomy once again in a bid to reinvent themselves. The result is that the party didn't win even one seat in the recent GE13 and lost its deposit in almost all the seats where it contested.
Here, the autonomy groups disagree with the definition of Federation in the “Constitution of Malaysia” as inserted after the expulsion of Singapore in 1965.
The fact is that all these so-called activists are barking up the wrong tree.
The Malaysia Agreement, the Malaysia Bill, Malaysia Act, 20/18 Points, the Cobbold Commission Report and the Inter-Governmental Committee Report, all so-called constitutional documents relating to the so-called formation of Malaysia, should be flushed down the toilet, not the dustbin of history, without a moment’s hesitation.
It would be a grave injustice to the people of Sabah and Sarawak to dwell on all these documents and engage in continuing rhetoric and polemics on the issue on both sides of the South China Sea.
Sabah and Sarawak became independent of British colonial rule on 31 Aug, 1963 and 22 July, 1963 respectively in line with the Protocols of the United Nations on Decolonization.
This is an indisputable fact although the Malayan history books continue to spread the lie that “Sabah dan Sarawak mencapai kemerdekaan mereka melalui Malaysia”. How can a country achieve independence twice within weeks?
Having achieved independence in an act of self-determination, both Borneo nations did not rush on 16 Sept, 1963 into the so-called Federation of Malaysia.
Even if Sabah and Sarawak had wanted to embark on such a foolish act so soon, they would have held a Referendum on the issue. No such Referendum was held.
Instead, it was the British who set up the Cobbold Commission, the Inter-Governmental Committee, drew up the Malaysia Bill and passed the Malaysia Act in the British Parliament and came up with the Malaysia Agreement and collected the 20/18 Points from Sabah and Sarawak respectively.
All the British actions were null and void in view of 31 Aug, 1963 and 22 July, 1963.
The British had no business deciding for two independent nations.
Both Sabah and Sarawak were effectively occupied by Malaya, the new colonial power, on 16 Sept, 1963.
This year, 50 years after that dastardly act, it’s time for Sabahans and Sarawakians to reflect not on the so-called Malaysia Agreement as Jeffrey’s Borneo Heritage Foundation plans to do on Sept 13 through an International Conference in Kota Kinabalu but on 16 Sept, 1963 as Occupation Day.
It's also a day to remember the many attempts made to fight the Malaysia yoke descending on the people of Sabah and Sarawak and, subsequently, to remove it.
The Azahari rebellion in Brunei in 1962 was against the idea of Malaysia in Borneo.
Indonesia launched the Ganyang Malaysia movement under its policy of konfrantasi.
The Philippines, like Indonesia, refused to recognise Malaysia.
The communists in Sarawak retreated into the jungles and fought a long war to eject the Malayan colonialists from Borneo. They joined forces with the Indonesians in Kalimantan.
The fight is not over yet if the thinking among the younger generation is any indication. The Young Turks in Star, in particular, are getting restive.
The bottomline is that the international community and the United Nations cannot standby and continue to watch the independence of Sabah and Sarawak continue to be compromised.
The Azahari rebellion in Brunei in 1962 was against the idea of Malaysia in Borneo.
Indonesia launched the Ganyang Malaysia movement under its policy of konfrantasi.
The Philippines, like Indonesia, refused to recognise Malaysia.
The communists in Sarawak retreated into the jungles and fought a long war to eject the Malayan colonialists from Borneo. They joined forces with the Indonesians in Kalimantan.
The fight is not over yet if the thinking among the younger generation is any indication. The Young Turks in Star, in particular, are getting restive.
The bottomline is that the international community and the United Nations cannot standby and continue to watch the independence of Sabah and Sarawak continue to be compromised.
Malaya must be told in no uncertain terms by the UN, as it did with Indonesia in the case of East Timor, that it must end its 50-year colonial occupation of Sabah and Sarawak. Malaya must judge itself by the same standards it applies in Palestine.
Both Borneo nations, Sabah and Sarawak, must get back the independence that they won on 31 Aug, 1963 and 22 July, 1963.
The Palestinians are not the only people in the world crying out for justice!
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