By Baru Bian
Reading
the testimonies of the various witnesses at the RCI hearings, I cannot
help but feel intense anger at the betrayal of our people by Dr
Mahathir. By his clandestine and illegal Project IC or Ops Durian Buruk,
he managed to single-handedly manipulate the demographics of Sabah,
which may have a very different socio-economic and geo-political
landscape today but for his meddling. The extent of the effects of Dr
Mahathir’s high-handed interference on Sabah’s culture, ethnic cohesion
and development will be difficult to measure. This exercise in social
engineering is all the more reprehensible for its main criteria, ie the
requirement that the illegal immigrants must be Muslims to be eligible
for ICs and citizenships.