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OPEN LETTER to all the socalled leaders

This is indeed an important letter on old and new issues faced by Sabah since 1963.

What has gone through in the History of Sabah cannot be undone but should be reviewed accordingly.

What is still going on in Sabah needs to be addressed accordingly.

What I am writing is about the terrorism still ongoing in Sabah arising from the neighbouring countries namely Philippines and Indonesia.

We know of the many issues since 1963 and obviously still unresolved.

The major one is the very old claim on Sabah by the Philippines which has sort of become academic relevance.  Although it is a dead claim but some people still want to use that as a punching bag against Sabah.

Also Sabah is also entangled by some past and present socalled leaders in dealing with the neighbours for known and unknown agenda.

It is known as how Tun Mustapha had entangled Sabah with Manila and the Southern Philippines and the bitterness thereof is still prevailing in some quarters within and without Sabah. 

While many old issues have not been resolved, new issues had surfaced in recent decades.

Some people prefer to settle such issues by way of terrorism including kidnapping and shooting of people in Sabah.

While such instances could have the motive of financial demands, there can be other reasons privy to those who had committed such heinous crimes in Sabah in recent decades.

I do not have the privilege to handle such heinous crimes and the people involved in these high profile crimes but some people who have access to such scenarios had written about some of them.

In the case of the dead Sabah claim, there are people who continue to pursue such claims privately to the leaders in Malaya and elsewhere.  Obviously such claims are really too much and are not entertained up to date.  Such dubious claims do not give anyone the right to resort to violence and terrorism especially to what happened in Tandauo in Lahad Datu area deemed to be an armed invasion or intrusion in early 2012.

Apart from the dubious claim, there maybe a few more recent events or incidences of discontent arising from dealings by recent socalled state and federal leaders.

Unfortunately, whatever Sabah had done in dealing with such neighbours had not be reciprocated by sort of mutual kindness.  Instead, Sabah had encountered the blunt of such concessions given to the neighbours in terms of aids, job opportunities, shelter from crisis in their homeland etc.

The illegal concessions of IMM13 and Project IC to the foreigners definitely brought a lot of heart breaks to Sabah and Sabahans and beyond.  A foreigner with Project IC was employed by a bank in Kuala Lumpur as security guard who one fine day shot a bank manager and got away with a loot of almost half a million Ringgit Malaysia.  Many such heinous crimes have happened reported or unreported.

It is also reported that Project IC in the late eighties and early nineties where the socalled leaders from the State and sanctioned by the prominent leader Mahathir in Kuala Lumpur all told in the recent concluded Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants Sabah (RCI IIS) has brought about a long string of endless terrors in Sabah and beyond.

It is also reported that the kidnap of 21 tourists in Sipadan Island in April, 2000 was mainly due to unsettled debts from getting foreigners to come to Sabah in a million to enable them to be given Project IC.  Our own Sabah “leaders” or traitors should now confess to the cause of this heinous crime which had since affected Sabah adversely very much.  I hope Musa Aman can tell us the full story of the Project IC leading to that kidnap.  Has it ever being resolved?  I also hope the report on RCI IIS as delayed but due any time now would bring out more details.

While the Project IC under the care of Musa Aman will never be resolved peaceful, Sabah and Sabahans would be forever under that endless curse.

With that endless curse in our midst, yet another curse has surface with the name of Aman Futures Philippine Group (AFPG) and somehow this 12 billion peso alleged scam is connected to Sabah possibly with the word “AMAN”.   Where would the convincing “resources” of AFPG come from if not from some connections in Sabah?  Would this story be fully told when the brain behind that alleged scam have been arrested in the reported persons of Abigail Pendulas and  Manuel Amalilio with “dual” citizenships?

Can this alleged Aman scam give rise to several kidnaps and heinous crimes in Sabah in recent months?  It is obvious that some people having lost so much money as much as 12 billion peso or 1 billion Ringgit Malaysia in a short period could resort to other tough methods to recover the losses in other ways.  Who can stop them using “mercenaries” to re-coup their losses?  Ultimately, it is Sabah, Sabahans and Malaysians who lose out in such apprehensive scenario in Sabah’s east coast.

Sabah has been victimized by all things done by the nation and the nation’s socalled leaders in so many ways.  When would such victimization be ended?  Can such socalled leaders who have entangled themselves in such heinous crimes loose them from such entrapment when they remain in office as great liars and hypocrites.  I have always written we have too many CRIMINALS in Federal and State Governments.

I would call on these socalled leaders installed by the rigging of the Election Commission of Malaysia (ECM) as confirmed by the two editions of the Government’s Gazette for the General Election 2013 and other similar rigging by ECM for GE 2004, GE2008 with the records all laid before the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak in 2008 and 2009.  What the ECM did with the two editions of the Gazette in GE2013 was actually trying to correct the discrepancies I had identified as fraudulent/manipulative practice or rigging of ECM in GE2004 and GE2008.  So what was in the two editions of the Gazette in GE2013 was guilt as charged by me in GE2004 and GE2008 and shaming the Judiciary which simply found the easy way to strike out my two laborious cases with total evidence.

All the issues faced by Sabah can be brought to live with a book as large as a few thousand pages. 

It would be another great sacrifice to present such a massive book while Sabah, Sabahans, especially half of Sabah in the east coast would be in strife for a decent living when curfew would be enforced.  Such curfew would also not solve the crisis of terror as long as the socalled leaders do not come clean with their own heinous crimes.

Every Sabahan deserve a better deal with Malaya, Philippine, and Indonesia and not live in the shadows of the own leaders in crimes.

In conclusion, do not blame the release of the full report of RCI IIS for fresh terror in Sabah and beyond for the unclean hands of people cannot remain in the positions of power.

Enough is Enough, a total change in Malaysia especially in Sabah and Sarawak with the Interim Good Governance Government Malaysia (IGGGM) is the only option left now for a new beginning to stop the rot getting worst.  

Let God be God in Malaysia.

Joshua Y. C. Kong    8^th May, 2014

7. IGGG M for now

Withered MH370?  (a positive write up after 7 days of fruitless SAR)

There are many theories but did the plane crash? If not, why not?  Still looking for evidence of the crashed debris?  Even the Australian women came out with pictures of the “playful” pilot on board once which could imply that the plane crashed due to sort of negligence?.  Where is the black box?

So with the missing plane MH370 when I secured 37 votes in Api-Api 1986 and when 239 is my birthday 238 +1, and such figures really tickle my mind to say something rather than nothing as I strongly believe that Interim Good Governance Government in Malaysia (IGGG M) be installed now with Joshua Kong as PM to sort out the mess of BN/UMNO for 50 years and more.  Why 370 and why 239?  Numbers are symbolic of events past and present and days to come.  Not numerology but they do convey Godly messages like 7 is the number of completion. Now the numbers of the flights such as 371, 372 etc have been changed to 318, 319 hopefully can find the plane with the changes of numbers and 239 ?

So much for the brain teasing.  Raja Bomoh like it or not - be it Black or white- is very part and parcel of the real life in Malaysia and beyond.  What is the difference between Bomohism and Clairvoyance? Most politicians use them. Raja Bomoh in his first statement was eagle caught hold of the plane and how can an eagle catch hold of a plane?  That is symbolic in a vision and it is held in mid air meaning a nation in the north likely Russia, Mongolia, Korea (North & South) ??? and which nation looks like Korea ???  Has South Korea comes into the SAR?

Najib came out with a RM1 dressed chicken lifted into the air despite the “Billion Ringgit as per estimated insurance claims and still counting” MH370 missing?  Why?  Who was killed naked by C4 ?  Was that also a “chicken” who was rumoured to be pregnant???

Like any disasters, the spiritualists are used for unknown normal information as spiritualists can have “access” to the people on the other side?  Has any spiritualists already consulted if what Christians may say would not matter?  Ask Doris Stock of UK.

The ringing but an unanswered one of handphone is also relevant and so is the Royce Engine could be active to send the “DNA” message to some sensitive monitoring equipment including the satellites in today’s high tech society albeit denied by the acting Transport Minister?

Like any hijack as in 911, fake or stolen passports were reported used.  So it is so in MH370.

If it is hijack and the victims handed over to the kidnappers for ransom and if this is the case, it would be to the tune of Billions of Ringgit for MAS (on the way to bankruptcy) or Malaysia (also on the way to bankruptcy).  If it is an international hijack, it is very important to keep this secret especially it is a USA’s aircraft involved as US could bomb the target be it held in which country?  So the choice is for MAS and Malaysia to pay or not for the ransom demanded?  So it is likely a bankruptcy getting nearer for MAS and Malaysia if indeed a hijack is disclosed to the world.  If it is known that a hijack is related to vendetta of sort, then who would fly with MAS again internationally?  You all know the evils of BN/UMNO especially of the socalled leaders symbolized by the two green coconuts of Raja Bomoh plus the magic flask (pulu) in its team to capture the active spirit

Also don’t ignore this point that the plane diverted 40% prior to Vietnam and possibly to avoid all the top monitoring equipment on the coastal areas of China as any unlit and non responding aircraft would be forced to land by military jets.  So did the plane take the route of wilderness (once also the silk route) to avoid military responses in the air to reach the destination in the North for this well planned hijack?

So I hope the crash whether confirmed or otherwise, the basis of rumour would go on over the restive spirit which was cleared as missing in the Immigration Records.

So the kidnappers or hijackers would want the money and so they just keep quiet to the outside world and some few people would know it.   With a Boeing 777-200 and 239 persons missing, the whole deal is worth a lot of money reaching into billions of Ringgit.  The plane itself would be worth a lot of money if ransom not paid.

So with the mysterious plane missing after 7 days, it is as good as gone with those lives?

If it is sitting somewhere in the wilderness, would such people survive the harsh conditions?  If the location of the plane is identified, what can Malaysia do if it is really a hijack to rescue the hostages?  Only Isreal could do it like in the Entebbe case in Uganda?  If USA is involved, it would be very costly exercise too as lives would be in terrible jeopardy.  Any known or exposed negotiations would place Malaysia in very bad light too if only we know why such an incident can happen?  Even the very expensive costly submarines are possibly lying “idle” similar to missing in action.  Silence is bliss to some.

So like someone also blame Najib but I need to go further to blame BN/UMNO for the total imaginable malaise in Malaysia and MH370 has been waiting to come to pass.  So the evils of BN/UMNO has come full circle in the international arena.  Now Peninsula is enveloped with terrible haze in many parts as high as over 300 in the haze indicator readings today.  God bless all Malaysians as we pray for the nation for those in the plane.

IGGG M is the solution.

Joshua Kong

PM of IGGG M

6. World bank on Malaysia's Education

World Bank Blasts Malaysia’s Education System

 

by Brian December 23, 2013
Malaysia has long set its driving economic goal in achieving high-income status 

and joining affluent Asian nations, such as Singapore and Japan, as a 

fully-developed country. A recent report by the World Bank, however, has

called for urgent education reform, arguing that the country lacks an education system capable of supporting a high-income country.

Indeed, with other countries emerging across South East Asia and undercutting Malaysia’s low-cost labor advantages, the general feeling is that Malaysia must continue to develop and modernize its economy. Malaysia does have a compulsory education system, and every Malaysian child is required to attend school for at least six years, with many choosing to attend school through graduating high school. Still, the World Bank has argued that this education system is not preparing Malaysians to compete in a highly competitive global economy where high-end skills are becoming more important than low costs.

The OECD’s recently-conducted Programme for International Student Assessment shows just how far Malaysia is falling behind in the international knowledge race. Malaysia came in at 52 out of 65 countries assessed, beating out Indonesia but still lagging far behind many S.E. Asian nations. Vietnam came in at 17th, while Singapore ranked as number 2 (behind only Shanghai, China, which was measured separately).

Malaysia allocated $17 billion to education. The Malaysian government is allocating a large amount  of funding to address the problem, and has launched an ambitious road map, the “Education Blueprint”, to try and improve the country’s failing education system. Nearly $17 billion dollars has been allocated to the education system next year, the highest for any single sector. Still, frequent policy changes and a national economy  with built-in affirmative action that favors Malays over Indians and Chinese individuals has held back previous attempts at reform. Previously, Malaysia had one of the better education and college systems in the region. The government decided, however, to shift from education in English to Education in Malay. The quality of the education system quickly declined, and Malaysia’s once international-renowned universities now lag behind other regional universities. The government has recently tried to shift back towards emphasizing English, which has since emerged as the defacto global language, however the shift is proving to be tumultuous.

Malaysia suffering “brain drain” as best students vacate. At the same time,even those Malaysians that do emerge as the “best and brightest” often head overseas for employment opportunities.Malaysia has suffered from a massive brain drain, which many blame on the affirmative action policies that favor Malays over other races. Many bright Chinese and Indian students chose to take their talents elsewhere in search of better opportunities and employment systems based on merit, not race.

This brain drain has become a massive problem for Malaysia, which loses many of its best and brightest to Singapore, Australia, and elsewhere. As many as 20% of Malaysia’s well-educated citizens head abroad for employment. Worse still, many of these individuals are Malaysia’s most ambitious and driven individuals, as is evident by their drive to seek employment abroad. Even if Malaysia succeeds in revamping its education system, Singapore and other countries could prove to be the biggest beneficiaries.Unless economic reform goes hand-in-hand with education reform, Malaysia’s brightest students may simply head abroad. Yet this past fall, Prime Minister Najib reiterated and even bolstered the government’s stance on supporting aggressive affirmative action. Meanwhile, the government offers generous scholarships to Malay students to study in Malaysian universities. This has pushed out better-qualified Indian and Chinese students out of the university system, and often abroad. At the same time, the university system has declined in line with lower quality students who are not selected on merit but instead race. Malaysia now finds itself at a crossroads. The nation must eitherimplement serious reform or risk falling farther behind its neighbors and competitors. With Laos, Cambodia, and other nations quickly emerging, Malaysia can no longer rely on its low cost labor advantages. Instead, serious economic and education reform is becoming a necessity.

5. Break the curse of UMNO

steadyaku47 comment : I wrote this in 2011.

I read it again this morning and nothing has changed.....nothing! Please read this again to refresh your mind and to keep the fire burning within us

........burning for the change we want!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Takkan Melayu Hilang Di Dunia? ...dream on!

I was in Singapore the last few days for work. Have not been to Singapore for over 20 years. The driver of the taxi that drove me from the airport to my hotel was Malay. On the ride to the hotel he pointed out that all the land along the coast that was now fully developed was reclaimed land. He said that Singapore could no longer buy sand from Indonesia or Malaysia – so Singapore now buys its sand from Vietnam. He suggested that maybe the Malaysian government should consider letting Singapore mine all the sand it needed from the Pahang and Perak river so that floods would not occur as frequently as they do now – this way Singapore would have their sand and Malaysia gets two strikes against Singapore: Payment for the sand and flood prevention! I quietly smiled at his logic. If only our politicians could think that clearly!

At night I would watch TV as I ate dinner and what I saw on Singapore TV gave me some explanation as to why Malaysia is so far behind Singapore. No I am not just talking about the physical aspect of development where a comparison between the two countries would be an exercise in futility: Where would you begin? From Changi airport, the taxis I took, the buses and trains that I used to the presence of a city confident in its growth and secure of its place globally, Singapore is everything that Malaysia is not!

Singapore TV is filled with programs that provides you with information of world events, knowledge about anything that you would care to know and learn about and many programs that tells Singaporeans that life out there is to be lived and enjoyed responsibly. No politicians in sight on their TV. Nothing that would allow any sensible, intelligent Singapore TV viewer to be upset at any attempt by the Singapore government to try and influence them on matters political.

Malaysian TV is pathetic and an embarrassment to watch. Talk show hosts that are so condescending to their guests that it makes me cringe! We have crowds of people being told about the latest government projects that will benefit them and the nation. What passes for Television programs is in reality government propaganda - pure and simply drivel and unmitigated spew of useless information that benefits no one – not even the government because all it does is to turn the thinking viewer against such blatant propaganda of a BN government desperate to win a coming general election. I remember one episode where this Malay politician was opening a show or seminar of some sort by unfurling a banner with a giant size portrait of himself! It makes me want to spew!

What was more disturbing to me is thinking how all this rubbish on Malaysian Television will affect those Malaysian watching Malaysian TV. If that is the only TV they watch then what chance do these people have of developing into a better human being? We have been told that we are what we eat…well I think what our government allow our people to watch on TV and read in the media is what we will be: a people blinkered and oblivious to the world outside.

But as a Malay what saddens me is that the politics within UMNO defines us Malays as we have never been defined before. Before this the Malays saw themselves as a people who went about their life with a quiet dignity secure in the knowledge that as a people, they had the respect of the other races and felt themselves worthy of being Malays – son of the soils. More important we had a sense of self worth.

Today the ugliness of the Malay persona is now no longer a matter than can be kept within the confines of family and the Malay community. How can it be kept from the public domain when Malays are ridicule and laughed at as they try to walk along the path where others have walked – and in trying to do so they have failed miserably. Failed because they are ill equipped to compete on a level playing field with the other races.

This is not something that UMNO can sweep under the carpet anymore.

Today it is the Malays themselves who have realized the dire situation that they are in. This is what the Malays now know of themselves.

There are no great Malay leaders in this country of ours any more. All our leaders, without exception, has in one-way or another, failed us – and yet having failed they still insists that their right to remain a Malay leader is unaffected. The Malay leaders of today are a joke!

The education of our young has not prepared or equipped them to compete on a level playing field against non-Malays in Malaysia and against others when they go overseas. They have failed miserably from their ability to master the English Language to their ability to interact and handle the intricacies of living amongst non-Malays.

I have been shamed countless times when in conversation with Malay students in Australia – not only by their woefully inadequate ability to speak decent English but more worrying in the blinkered approach to education with the ‘them’ and ‘us’ approach to everything – from social interactions to having no understanding that we must celebrate diversity – not treat it as a threat to our Malay ethnicity, to our religion and to our way of life. That they have failed to do so is painfully obvious to me as a Malay – what more to the people they meet. But ignorance is bliss and these students are unable to comprehend that they are looked upon as an object to be pitied rather then laughed at. And so these students go about their education oblivious to their failings. Katak di bawah tempurong!

The Malays can no longer ignored the reality that the non-Malays are way ahead by leaps and bounds in all things Malaysians: Business, Education, civil society and even respect and dignity of their own race.

How is this possible when the Malays have complete control of government since Merdeka and should and did have control over all aspects of life in Malaysia?

How is this possible when the Malays have 9 Sultans and numerous Governors as the constitutional head of state?

How is this possible when the Malays numerically overwhelmed all the other races put together?

And yet all this advantages have made the Malays into a people that can no longer hold their head nobly whatever their circumstances simply because the Malay dominated Barisan Nasional government has failed in their much stated purpose of Ketuanan Melayu.

Failed not in the getting of the Ketuanan Melayu but failed in the manner in which Ketuanan Melayu is used to further NOT The Malay interest but to further UMNO’s interest.

And therein lies the tragedy of the Malays! AN UMNO that takes for themselves what should really be for the Malays.

And it is in the leaders of UMNO that we see the worst of the Malays acting out what the Malays have now become! These UMNO leaders are the epitome of greed, corruption and thievery of the nations wealth for their own pockets.

That the Malays have now lost their sense of pride and dignity because of the misdeeds and abuse by UMNOI politicians of the public office they hold is of no concern to these UMNO Malays. The behavior of these UMNO leaders now mirrors that of the Sultans who have long ago surrendered any dignity they might still have and any claims to being Malay leaders by their decadent lifestyle that they lead on the money they get from the Rakyat.

Are they Malays powerless to stop their leaders from taking them further down the road of lost respect and lost dignity. How not to lose respect for a Malay leader like Najib? In fact look at the families of all the Prime Ministers of Malaysia bar Tunku : Malays all of them: And all of them in one way or the other have profited hideously from the office of Prime Minister.

And with Najib he goes a step further. The emergence of a wife that thinks that being the wife of the Prime Minister entitles her to be styled First Lady of Malaysia!

What these Malays leaders are doing are being aped by other Malays in position of trust and power – where the getting of wealth by any means possible have brought into existence of at least two generations of Malays that have been brought to believe that Malaysia owes them a living: ask not what you can do for your country but ask what your country can do for you!

Two generations of Malays totally spoiled and weaken to expect something for nothing by a UMNO totally devoid of any interest in furthering the interest of any Malay what more other Malaysian, other then of themselves!

I am ashamed of being Malay. Ashamed because of the deeds and actions taken by UMNO in the name of the Malays. How can I not be ashamed that a Malay Minister of Defense have seen it fit to allow a good friend of his to profit RM$500 million merely by arranging for the Malaysian government to buy French Submarines?

How can I not be ashamed of these Malay leaders when a Malay Prime Minister – well almost a Malay Prime Minister! – saw it fit to use the people’s money - to the tune of RM$1 billion - to bail out the shipping company of his son!

How can I not be ashamed when a Minister, no less, is sent as our Ambassador in Washington after being caught out for outraging the modesty of a waitress serving him!

These Malays do more damage to the Malays at large then to themselves.

The Malays had Dato Onn, Tunku, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein Onn, Tun Dr Ismail Ali, Ghazali Shafie …all great Malay leaders whose duty was to the Malays and to Malaysia and all Malaysians!

Who do we have now? Malay leaders whose idea of being great is having the latest model Mercedes and living in mansions paid for by their thieving of the people's money and taking actresses or singers for their wives and mistresses! And the Malay singers and actresses who thinks that these ageing lotharios is a good catch probably defines the materialistic mind frame that permeates too many Malays everywhere.

It pains me to see the Malays like this. It pains me even more when the most concerned of people are not the Malay leaders but the other races who are witness to the Malay fall from grace. The non Malays worry for the Malays more then the Malay leaders because they know that until the Malays are energized to do something for themselves by getting rid of these useless Malay leaders, then they too would have to bear the brunt of the corruption and the rape and pillage of their country by these UMNO leaders.

Let us all realize that we are all in this together. What the Malays are now enduring the other races are also enduring and we can only get out of this impasse by working together.

The irony that I as a Malay is mocking and putting down my own race is not lost on me. Cutting off my nose to spite my face! For me UMNO has cut of the Malay nose a long time ago. PKR is not far behind because here again is a Malay dominated political entity that is run by Malays who presumes it is their right to do as they please in PKR because they are the leaders of PKR. If UMNO has cut of the nose of the Malay face then PKR is working on the ear!

I say all this because it needs to be said. It cannot be ignored that the Malays have now lost their way in a country they call their own. If they cannot see themselves being so then I will point that out to them. If you want to assail me for being a turncoat to my own race by living in Australia – let me tell you this. A Malay is still a Malay wherever he or she is.

Open your eyes, engage your brains. Think and ask yourself if you are proud to be a Malay in Malaysia today. I am not. I no longer wish to refer to myself as a Bumiputra because being a Bumiputra does not make me any more a Malay as a Chinese would be more a Chinese if he lives in China or an Indian in India!

Being a bumiputra is an embarrassment to anyone today because it denotes an unfairness within a society that tells you that birth, race and religion entitles you to being someone else other then what you are not – a first amongst equal. Today privileges of birth no longer hold any sway over civilized societies - be you a Sultan or the son of a Prime Minister. Everything that you want to be must be earned through hard work and decent labor. And this is why the position of the Malays in Malaysia have long ago been compromised by an UMNO government that sees the Malays only as a tool to further their hold on power in this country.

4. Good and final signs to the CRIMINALS in Governments

Believe it or not, there were precious and clear signs in the press in the FRONT pages on 16th September, 2013 - the auspicious occasion of the young nation.

Malaysia without Singapore is NOT Malaysia.

Malaysia without Sabah is not Malaysia.

Malaysia without Sarawak is not Malaysia.

Malaysia was formed with a MALAYSIA agreement and once Singapore left and no new AGREEMENT was made HENCE no more a nation!!!!

How can we allow the SNAKE swallow the little chicken as once depicted by the cartoonist - kenon and not sensitive at all and that has been the reality of 50 years and more?

Now back to the precise signs on 16th September, 2013.

1.   Dr Mahathir stressed UMNO or UMNO Baru is to face DEMISE soon for whatever reasons known to UMNO/BN.

2.  Our great or infamous man passed away on the early morning of that day meaning there is HOPE for the true freedom of people of Malaysia.  Chin Peng (assumed name) means Peace to the Chin or Chinese people.

3.  In Sabah we have a wonderful for some but a destructive factor called TAED meaning SHIT for all when the area is to be locked out for the consumers.  So this legacy of TAED or shit is shit for all from the man whose origin is questioned and more is still on the way unless we remove him quickly after the sort of jinx of 9 years.  That project if ever allowed in a sensitive area for all reasons could be renamed ECO TAD for more focus than TAED or SHIT.  No shit for Sabahans anymore.  ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

What else do we expect from the CRIMINALS in Governments after rampage after 50 years?

3. All CRIMINALS must surrender

  Governments of ALL CRIMINALS for more than 50 years to dismantle..

See the CRIMINALS never end in robbing our wealth in Borneo...and this cause of Lina Soo must be supported --Joshua


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Lina Soo holds up her book Sarawak: The Real Deal in which she documents the state's history.

KUCHING (Sept 24): A group of Sarawakians mulls suing the British Government for failing to return sovereignty to the state before the formation of Malaysia, 50 years ago.

Recent declassified British colonial documents appear to support the group's claims that the British colonial office colluded with Malaya leaders to secretly contrive the sovreignty of British Borneo to Malaya.

“The British were masterminds and strategists. Despite massive opposition to the Malaysia Plan, they denied Borneo colonies rights to self-determination,” said Lina Soo, who compiled all these historical facts and information into a book.

Entitled of 'Sarawak: The Real Deal', the 124-paged book containing 10 chapters highlights Sarawak's history, includes selected colonial documents, anti-Malaysia campaign and other information on the formation of Malaysia.

The sub-heading of the book reads 'How a Kingdom was betrayed in an intrigue of trickery, coercion an subterfuge'.

The last few pages in Chapter 10 centres on when Singapore left the federation of Malaysia in 1965 to become an independent nation. Sarawak and Sabah were warned by Britain not to try to follow suit.

“The book is to give Sarawakians an informed account based on both Sarawak and British official sources of the events leading to the formation of Malaysia,” Soo told reporters at the book launch today.

Soo, who has been campaigning for Borneo Agenda in the past few years, said because of British’s failure to honour the United Nation decolonisation process, it led to serious consequences for both Sarawak and North Borneo (now Sabah).

“Sarawak and Sabah were plundered of their oil and resources for 50 years and both states became the most impoverished parts of Malaysia,” she said, adding that a group of people, including a few lawyers, was preparing the legal documents to file the suit.

She said the main objective is to determine whether Sarawak voluntarily join the federation to form Malaysia, and whether Sarawak can federated with other nation before gaining sovereignty.

In addition, she said the case would seek compensation from the British for its violation of human rights and the people’s unalienable right to independence under international law.

The 54-year-old housewife, who stood in the last general election under State Reform Party’s (STAR) ticket, is also calling for volunteers and contributors to come forward. She plans to raise £50,000 (RM256,593) to prepare researched documentation and to acquire legal opinion.

Registered supporters who pay a registration fees of RM50 have been promised a share of the compensation money should they win the case.

Read more: http://fz.com/content/swakians-sue-britain-not-returning-soverignty-state#ixzz2fnsIibgu

2. Blast from the past

www.thestar.com.my/Opinion/Columnists/One-Mans-Meat/Profile/Articles/2013/09/16/A-blast-from-Sabahs-past.aspx

One Man's Meat

Published: Monday September 16, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Monday September 16, 2013 MYT 9:17:10 AM

A blast from Sabah's past

One Man’s Meat by PHILIP GOLINGAI

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How Malaysia came to be makes for some interesting reading as the country celebrates Malaysia Day.
BISUK pun boleh masuk Malaysia! (Even tomorrow we could join Malaysia!),” Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Gilong told reporters in Kota Kinabalu after he returned from Kuala Lumpur in the early 1960s.
According to The Sabahan: The Life and Death of Tun Fuad Stephens written by P.J. Granville-Edge, Gilong was part of a delegation from North Borneo (as Sabah was called then) who were “shown projects and tangible achievements brought about (in Malaya) since Malayan independence”.
Gilong was impressed.
And today I wish all a Happy Malaysia Day! Fifty years ago, North Borneo, Sarawak, Singapore and Malaya formed Malaysia.
During the weekend, I re-read Tun Fuad’s biography to get an understanding of why the man – of whom Tan Sri Khir Johari said “Malaysia, with Sabah, would not have been born, if not for Donald Stephens” – agreed to the Federation of Malay-sia.
There are still people in my home state Sabah who are dead set against our forefathers’ decision.
Tun Fuad (Donald Stephens converted to Islam in 1971) and other leaders in North Borneo and Sarawak had considered an alternative which was the exclusive union of three non-Indonesian states in Borneo – North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei.
“The idea appealed to the British Colonial power who did not want to relinquish influence and commercial interests in the region. But (Indonesian president) Sukarno’s plans for a ‘Greater Indonesia’ put paid to that suggestion,” wrote Granville-Edge.
“For the vulnerability of Sabah’s and Sarawak’s borders with Indonesia’s Kalimantan became the overarching issue. A slightly lesser irritant was the emerging contention of Philippines that Sabah had not been ceded but only leased to the Chartered Company (assigned to administer North Borneo).”
In 1962, Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal pursued his country’s claim on North Borneo, arguing that the title and dominion over the territory were ceded by the Sultan of Sulu to Manila.
This year, those who were not aware of such a claim were reminded that Manila has not given up its claim on Sabah. A group calling themselves “the Royal Sulu Army” was sent by Jamalul Kiram III, one of the many claimants to the throne of the Sultanate of Sulu, to invade Kampung Tanduo in Lahad Datu, Sabah.
1962, with Indonesia and Philippines showing interest in North Borneo, Tun Fuad asked himself: “What did Sabahans themselves want?”
His answer was “coming under the rule of Indonesia or the Philippines did not seem like the best route”.
“The years of mulling over the options for his homeland had helped Donald understand the big picture. The British Colonial legacy was something Sabah and Sarawak shared with Malaya,” wrote Granville-Edge.
“In Donald’s mind’s eye, a purely Borneo consortium did not seem to be the answer, it was obvious that the physical security of the peoples of the three sparsely populated non-Indonesian Borneo states was paramount.”
According to the book, “Donald also understood that the formation of a Federation, that included Singapore and the Borneo states, would allow a more equitable balance of racial interests to emerge: the Malays would be offset by the Chinese in Singapore, and the indigenous racial composition in Sarawak and North Borneo would offset the dominance of the Malays and Chinese predominantly in the western part of the proposed new country”.
In Tun Fuad’s view, according to Granville-Edge, who is his niece, “Sabah would be joining Malaysia as a partner equal in stature to the nucleus, Malaya. This supposition was to be the cause of much friction in the years ahead”.
Tun Fuad had insisted on the “Twenty Points” as he was concerned about Sabah retaining a significant level of state autonomy.
The most important of these safeguards were religion, language, immigration, tariffs and finance, special position of the indigenous people, education and Constitutional safeguards, wrote Granville-Edge.
“Along the way, the ‘Twenty Points’ had been amended, but the spirit within them was essentially retained. Sadly, subsequent to the formation of Malaysia, some of these safeguards were gradually whittled away,” she wrote.
“Ironically, some through Donald’s abang’s high-handedness. Down the road, Donald was to make his dissatisfaction at this very clear, not once, but twice in the years ahead.”
Then came the expulsion of Singapore from the Federation on August 9, 1965. Tun Fuad, according to his biography, was livid Sabah and Sarawak were not consulted.
“Donald felt he and Sabah had been lured into Malaysia along with Singapore. In the white heat of the moment, his thinking at that time was straightforward: since Singa­pore, Sabah and Sarawak – the 3S – had gone into this ‘marriage’ with Malaya together, they should also be allowed to leave together,” wrote Granville-Edge.
According to Tun Fuad’s friend George Chin, “when news of Singapore’s expulsion was released, Donald reacted very logically. He said: ‘The reason we joined Malaysia was to be with Singapore. If Singa­pore is out, Sabah’s position with Malaysia should be reviewed. And we must decide about staying or going’.”
Eleven days after Singapore’s expulsion, Tun Fuad tendered his resignation as Sabah Chief Minister to Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman after a round of golf.
The rest, as they say, is history.

The views expressed are entirely the writer’s own.

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Joshua Kong22 hours ago Was Tun Fuad under duress to resign after questioning the status of Malaysia after Singapore was kicked out? Since Singapore left, there was no Malaysia and why celebrate Malaysia today? Reply 2 replies 0

MatSham21 hours ago Go figure the intricacies... Reply 1 reply 0

Joshua Kong20 minutes ago What intricacies?, nothing but lopsidedness...­injustice through and through..