Kota Kinabalu: “Allocation of parliamentary seats for Sabah and Sarawak should not be based solely on population and as though Sabah and Sarawak are equal in status to the States in the Peninsula” said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, commenting on the view that extra seats will not help Sabah and Sarawak or that Sabah and Sarawak are not entitled to extra seats in the new re-delineation exercise due to its lower population.
Written by Joe Fernandez, Malaysia Chronicle
The insensitive ignoramuses have done it again! The buntings and
billboards, shipped in from Putrajaya, brazenly proclaim 55 years of
Merdeka throughout the length and breadth of Sabah and Sarawak. This is
the Mother of All Bullshit in Sabah and Sarawak.
Whose Merdeka?
Obviously, it’s Merdeka for Peninsular Malaysia or Malaya which
became independent of British colonial rule of a sort on 31 Aug, 1957.
The revisionists are claiming that the British never really colonised
Malaya – the land of the Orang Asal i.e. the Orang Asli -- which they in
fact hacked away from the Thai kingdom, after two wars with Bangkok, to
plant rubber and mine tin. But that’s another story.
That i.e. 1957 being the case, why flaunt it in Sabah and Sarawak and
expect the long-suffering people there to share in the joy of the
people of Malaya in being free of colonialism and imperialism?