Kota Kinabalu: “It is incredible and almost unbelievable reading the reasons and excuses given by federalist leaders from Sabah and federal leaders across the South China Sea. It is as though Sabah has never had it so good or any better if not for forming Malaysia there would be no progress and no development” asked Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, commenting on the various statements as though Sabah will be without development, be bankrupt or eaten up by its neighbours or infiltrated with Islamic State (IS) militants bent on taking over Sabah and creating an Islamic caliphate and moving back to the dark ages.
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?