tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305970325079126141.post4074161306196120029..comments2023-12-19T17:47:51.388+08:00Comments on Borneo Herald: In whose hands lies Sabah’s destiny?Borneo Heraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13330998026298164578noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305970325079126141.post-5210775934868109552013-02-02T15:07:43.263+08:002013-02-02T15:07:43.263+08:00(Cont'd from above)
BORNEO PEOPLE TOOK UP ARMS...(Cont'd from above)<br />BORNEO PEOPLE TOOK UP ARMS TO OPPOSE MALAYSIA FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE<br /><br />In Sabah it is recorded only the Suluks and Bajaus supported this federation idea. This is much to their deep regrets for they were rewarded by becoming some of the most marginalised sections of Sabah population.<br /><br />In Brunei, the Brunei People's Party (BPP) with mass backing opposed Malaysia as a neo-colonial idea. The BPP won 99% of the electable seats in the Legislative Assembly elections in the first and last general elections to be held in Brunei in August 1962 - for the last 50 years. This is what the BPP demanded from Britain:<br /><br />On Dec. 5, 1962, these three proposals were submitted to the Legislative Council:<br /><br />i) Reject the idea of joining Malaysia<br /><br />ii) Restore Brunei sovereignty over Sarawak and Sabah<br />(This demand reflected the fact that Sabah and Sarawak were previously part of Brunei territory).<br /><br />iii) British grant of independence to the Borneo federation by 1963.<br />(The Borneo Federation called “North Kalimantan” was a concept proposed by the BPP and accepted by many people and politicians in Sabah and Sarawak).<br /><br />The proposals were rejected by the British (the Assembly was stacked with a majority of appointed members) and on the morning of Dec. 8, 1962, the PRB staged it armed uprising for independence. <br /><br />In Sarawak the Sarawak United People's Party sharing similar independence ideas with the BPP led to opposition to Malaysia which saw some of the biggest public demonstrations in Sarawak in the 1960s for real national independence. Sarawak under Brooke Rule experienced 100 years as an independent state from 1841 to 1941. Sarawak become a colony from 1941 in turn of Japan Britain and Malaya.<br /><br />Regardless of their ideologies, the independence freedom fighters were nationalists who opposed the planned re-colonisation and domination of the Borneo colonies under the “Malaysia Plan”.<br /><br />What the Borneo nationalists warned in the 1960s about re-colonisation has been proven correct over 50 years. We do not need another 50 years to prove them wrong!<br /><br />DEMAND AN INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM!<br /><br />TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!<br /><br />FIGHT FOR A FREE AND INDEPENDENT SABAH & SARAWAK!<br /><br />(Sarawakians)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305970325079126141.post-45631852675322293882013-02-02T15:03:32.115+08:002013-02-02T15:03:32.115+08:00ANALYSIS RE-OPENS MALAYSIA FORMATION DEBATE
WHY?...ANALYSIS RE-OPENS MALAYSIA FORMATION DEBATE <br /><br />WHY? The article sets out clearly most of the issues about Malaysia confronting the Borneo people in Sabah and Sarawak today. It asks the right questions and demand the right solutions.<br /><br />What it does is to once again open up the question on the legitimacy of Malaysia and the “formation debate” that embroiled the region in the 1960s. It asked “What does it mean for Sabah and Sarawak to be in Malaysia? <br /><br />What is said applies fully to Sarawak. However Sarawak suffers from the plight of having muted and nuted (neutered) “leaders” who know only how to kowtow to parti parti Malaya and are led by the nose to promote the Malayan domination agenda of making Sabah and Sarawak colonial resource centres and keeping its people as “kuli kuli”.<br /><br />The identical issues, problems and sufferings of the Sabah and Sarawak today were not all there before 1963. They came after 1963 with the British Malayan “Malaysia” package which was sold as the “security and prosperity” medicine for good of the people! They were created by UMNO Malaya's apartheid policies as part of the colonisation of these 2 countries.<br /><br />The article opens up the whole question of how Malaysia came into being. And there are a few narratives as to how. <br /><br />One very important part of the history has tended to be seriously overlooked unless mentioned in passing but never in its proper context. This is the fact that there was not just international but importantly local opposition to the British Malayan plan to consolidated British colonial interests under one colonial administration. The majority of "historians" avoid talking about what an unpopular idea "Malaysia" was and how it was opposed by many in the Borneo colonies.<br /><br />Conceived in 1942, it was firstly a plan to consolidate British colonial interests in the region. It evolved into the 'Malaysia federation proposals” as Britain faced local demands for independence and UN pressure to de-colonise in the late 1950s and early 1960s. <br /><br />Britain and Malaya conspired and jointly announced their “Malaysia plan” without prior consultation and agreement of the people in the Borneo colonies. In their hurry they totally bypassed essential steps of firstly allowing the colonies independence and time to develop and form their stand on this sudden federation proposal. Britain was criminally negligent in this and deliberately not conducting a UN supervised independence referendum on the question of “forming Malaysia”.<br /><br />The Malaysia proposal was generally opposed by those who saw its as neo-colonial plan to re-colonise the 3 countries originally intended to be part of Malaysia. This opposition led to the armed independence uprising in Brunei in 1962 and continued in the guerrilla independence war in Sarawak till 1990. All this is an important part and parcel of our struggle for independence which tends to be overlooked and sadly neglected. <br /><br />The important point is that the people had opposed "Malaysia" and demanded their own national independence. They were ignored and suppressed by the British and in the end they had to use armed resistance to gain independence.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com