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Sarawak for Sarawakian kleptocrats – Brewin Edward Emprang
Sarawak Headhunter's comments in red.
By history, the states of Sabah and Sarawak are enjoying many
privileges. Restricting people from entering the states for no sensible
reason is one of them.
In reality these are not privileges but necessary provisions to avoid wholesale economic migration by Malayans and utter domination of the local populace of Sarawak and Sabah. In spite of these safeguards the Malayans have nevertheless managed to achieve a large measure of political and economic control of these nations through unwarranted political and bureaucratic manipulation as well as illegal and unconstitutional legislation (in the form of the Petroleum Development Act, through which their petroleum resources were expropriated by the Malayan Federal government without adequate recompense).
However, there are those who still think that Sarawak should leave the
Federation as the state is allegedly being treated less equal than other
states in the Peninsula.
Unless the situation is redressed, there is absolutely no benefit for Sarawak to remain in the Federation. This is not merely a question of unequal treatment vis-a-vis the Malayan states, but systematic unfair and unjust treatment, and neither is this just a mere allegation.
Even the relegation of Sarawak and Sabah from independent nations (albeit former British colonies) to the status of the 13th and 14th states of the Malaysian Federation smacks of gross unfairness and injustice. There would have been no Malaysia without Sarawak and Sabah, yet these two nations found themselves completely disadvantaged and taken advantage of by the wily and more politically savvy Malayans and their assets stripped.
The Malayans, particularly the Prime Minister Tuanku Abdul Rahman, couldn't handle Singapore's demands for fair treatment, let alone take advantage of it, and so allowed it to secede (in reality booted it out of the Federation willy-nilly without consulting the other original partners in the venture, Sarawak and Sabah).
If so, with all due respect, the question is, is secession necessary in
that regard? The onus is on those people to explain that there is a
need for Sarawak to secede willy-nilly from the federation.
With all due respect, YES, secession is necessary, unless justice is done with regard to Sarawak and Sabah in all matters. The onus is upon Malaya to explain why these two richest nations now have among the highest incidence of poverty and under-development, while Brunei which declined to join in Malaysia's formation and Singapore which left have now among the highest per capita incomes in the world.
When the Japanese came long before Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud became our
Chief Minister, they coined the slogan “Asia for Asians” as part of
their propaganda.
I do not know and never want to know about the real meaning and agenda
of the “Sarawak for Sarawakians” slogan. It appears to be of the same
genus with the aforesaid Japanese slogan but of a different species.
This is irrelevant to the present situation. Sarawak and Sabah are not invaders like the Japanese were then. In fact a far more insidious form of neo-colonialism by Malaya has invaded Sarawak and Sabah under false pretexts.
Therefore, it is probably being used for the same motive or sort of, however, it is just my guess.
If “Sarawak for Sarawakians” means to rule out Umno from entering
Sarawak, to me, it is hand-waving, because we already have our own Umno
called “PBB”.
It is this UMNo called "PBB" that has been the local instrument of the devastation of Sarawak's natural resources (whatever was left anyway, after the Malayans had siphoned off the petroleum) and the marginalization and continued impoverishment of the majority of Sarawak's people (especially the natives).
But if it means to prevent PKR, PAS, and DAP from strengthening their
bases in Sarawak, it makes political sense. I genuinely believe any
reasonable tyrant in Taib’s shoes would also do the same.
There is no such thing as a reasonable tyrant and such a belief is utterly misguided.
Is today’s Sarawak not for Sarawakians? Is this slogan suggesting that Sarawak is currently owned by people from Peninsula in some manner?
The ugliness of colonialism (neo or otherwise) and any form of oppression is that ownership rights are misappropriated and wrongfully exercised by the master, whether the oppressed subjects realize it or not. This is the case with the current state of the relationship of Malaya with Sarawak and Sabah, notwithstanding the outward trappings of an illusionary democracy.
Why "illusionary democracy"? An illegitimate government that is spawned by a rigged electoral system can only be described as such. It commands no legitimacy, is highly corrupt and deals with inequality, unfairness and injustice.
If I had to say that people who believe Sarawak is being plundered by
Malaya do not understand the concept of federalism and in the dark about
the separation of power between state and federal government, I would
be whacked for being condescending. But those are the best words that I
know if I had to describe them.
This is not just mere belief. It is actually happening, and anyone who doesn't see it is blind. Federalism is not a tool of oppression nor separation of power between the state and federal governments the modus operandi to achieve the latter.
Aside from oil and gas, matters including land and timbers are governed
by the state government itself. As for oil and gas, the state is
receiving 5% per annum.
The separation of power between the state and federal governments is also rendered illusory when both are ruled by the same coalition, a coalition that has come to power illegitimately.
Perhaps, some may dispute the adequacy of the amount, but if they were
to take into account the very fact that Petronas belongs to the people
of Malaysia including Sarawakians, and there are quite a number of
Sarawakians working for the GLC, the amount to me is reasonable.
The fact that there were quite a number of Sarawakians working for the British colonial government did not make it any more right or reasonable. The fact is that Petronas is controlled by the Malayans and they deal with its resources and incomes as they see fit, and there is nothing their Sarawakian serfs can do about it.
Therefore, if there is a party to be blamed for the underdevelopment of
Sarawak, it is the people of Sarawak themselves, or rather the local
politicians running the state. Not the people of Malaya.
Taib and his family have been keeping Sarawak’s treasures in their
house safe for so long yet those racist anti-Malayan crusaders accuse
Malayans of looting the state’s timbers and land.
With arrogance and blatant nepotism, Taib transformed state-owned companies into his family-owned enterprises, and alienated state lands to his family, and granted logging concessions to himself, yet the Malayans are the culprit?
The people of Sarawak are powerless in view of the rigged electoral and political system and are not to be blamed for the underdevelopment of Sarawak. The parasitic local politicians who manipulate them and its resources are merely tools of the Malayans in power who depend on them to keep the local populace under subjugation. In return the Malayans allow them to take their share of the plunder from the resources that are under their control.
It is a symbiotically parasitic relationship.
There is absolutely no issue of racism in the fight against Malayan oppression. It is a matter of principle.
Taib and his family (and cronies) are able to rape Sarawak's timber and land because of this mutually parasitic dependence. The Malayans will not take action against Taib no matter how corrupt he is because he was instrumental in handing over Sarawak's petroleum resources to them and in keeping them in power. Therefore Taib's abuse of this power of attorney does not absolve the Malayans of any of the blame since they allow such abuse. They are also still the main culprits.
I, as a Sarawakian, in all honesty, feel ashamed of those people who
vent their anger at the people of Malaya for the woeful state of the
electricity, water, and roads in Sarawak.
You should feel ashamed of yourself that you are so blinded by your Malayophileness that you cannot see that the Malayans, having expropriated Sarawak's petroleum resources to do with as they please, are responsible for such woeful state by thereby denying Sarawak of much-needed funds for its own development. Taib of course is also responsible for this.
It is true that the current federal government, whose some of the ministers in fact are Sarawakians, is being quite unfair to the Borneans, for example in matter of cabotage.
But as far as the policy and good governance is concerned, secession is unnecessary. Political reform will do. – April 8, 2014.
If the Malayans will not or cannot do anything about the situation, then secession is imperative. The Malayans have no will nor desire to undertake political reform and have not shown any. The Malayan opposition, in spite of gains against the ruling regime, are still struggling mightily against a system rigged to ensure the entrenchment of oppression, inequality and injustice.
The question Sarawakians have to ask is if against all odds the Malayan opposition comes to power, will it have the political will to give back to Sarawak what rightfully belongs to it?
If not, then secession remains the only answer.
Al Tugauw
Sarawak Headhunter
* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and
does not necessarily represent the views of The Malaysian Insider.
4 comments:
a. I share your sentiment.
Republic of Sarawak is the only answer to our plight.
I share a story with you and you will know why.
After all, one evil Indian is still alive and manipulate the whole race to his benefit.
The truth about Malays being Bumiputra in Malaysia cannot be hidden. Read this to find out why.
Who are the pendatangs ?
When Mahathir was told the truth about Hang Tuah he went berserk and ordered the revision of our history to eliminate references to Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat etc. entirely.
For those who can still remember, Mahathir used to praise and idolise Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat in the 80's and the 90's during every one of the Merdeka Celebrations. Then he suddenly stopped mentioning them in the late 90's after he discovered the truth. There was a book written by a British author on the voyages of Admiral Cheng Ho around this region and mention was made that Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat were bodyguards of Hang Li Po!
In fact some of my friends and I were joking that Mahathir was mistaken in assuming that these two warriors were Malays. As we are from Penang our gangster heads are all called Aun Tua which can sound like Hang Tuah, hence we were instinctively sure that they were actually Chinese gangster chiefs who would also be warriors and very skilled in Chinese Martial Arts, hence their positions as bodyguards.
We used to laugh at Mahathir and thought he was quite silly to make such assumptions especially when Hang Li Po was definitely from China and these warriors became local heroes because of their superior fighting skills.
This is one clear revelation of his character, he will cheat, steal, lie, blackmail, character assassinate, pressurise judges etc. to get what he wants. Abuse of power of the office is routine, he has no conscience about changing history, planting evidence or removing evidence as long as it serves his agenda. That is why Malaysian history for now is changed, but time will still conquer all as the truth will eventually rise again like a new dawn and the people will wake up and see him as the crook he is. Eventually he will be relegated to the footnote of history.
Well, if Mahathir can consider himself a true Malay which he isn't as his father roots are from Kerala, India. He had tried very hard to "cleanse" himself from his Indian ancestry and unashamedly remove traces of his links to the Indian sub-continent as many Malaysians were not told or seen his granfather's photographs.Whatever, it is, this mamak is evil and cunning to remove his enemies even to the extent of bashing them uplike Anwar Ibrahim's blue-black eye.
He was instrumental in making laws to "convert" marginals or pseudo-Malays to become Malays by making definition of a Malay as one who professes the Muslim religion, speak the Malay language and follow the customs ( adat ) and the dressing of the Malays. How convenient ! He forgot his medical training that DNA cannot be altered.
I read this article some years back, but it's good to re-read it, and for some of you, you could be reading this the first time. Admiral Cheng He was a Muslim as at that time, the emperor of China was a Muslim. I have a strong feeling that Parameswara converted to Islam when he married princess Hang Li Po. If this is true, then it was the Chinese who converted the Malays to Islam, and not anybody else. It was mentioned that the Javanese were angry with the Chinese for having converted them to Islam centuries ago.
b. Someone should forward this to Ibrahim Ali of Perkasa. Let that racist know the facts before he utters more stupid unwarranted statements.
All non-Malays must read this, it's interesting !
SUBJECT: HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH
The Truth Revealed (with evidence)!
In June 1998, the government of Malaysia hired a team of experts from all over the world to gather in Malaysia for a research project to compliment the history studies that we undertook in our secondary school.
The objective of the research is simply:
1. To find proof and evidence that show the Malays were the origins of
Malaysia and they were the first race and religion that landed in Malaysia
2. To further strengthen their claims, first they needed to find the graveyards of Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekiu and others to show the existence of their pioneers.
3. The Batu Bersurat in Terengganu, revealed that the islamic religion landed in Malaysia more than a hundred years ago which further strengthened their claims!
BEWARE & OPEN YOUR EYES !! Go and ask your brother, sister, niece, nephew
etc. Since the year 1999 (if I'm not mistaken) or year 2000, do they study
about HANG TUAH anymore?
Why is that popular subject GONE? Missing in action? or evidence reveals
something else that can sed the government to stop the syllabus and HIDE the TRUTH?
Here is the evidence of the findings by the team of scientists archaeologist, historian and other technical staff from the United States , United Kingdom , Germany , Canada , Yemen & Russia .
The evidence:
1) They finally found the graveyards of Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat and others, their skeletons had been analyzed and samples of DNA taken with the results showing: Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekiu and mates were NOT MALAY!!! They were CHINESE origins (Islamic) from China !!! Why were they here in Malacca? If you go back in history, you would know that they were on a mission to protect the UNGRATEFUL MALAY Sultanate from the frequent attacks by the Kingdom of SIAM ( Thailand ).
So Hang Tuah was not a Malay hero! They were the protectors
or bodyguards of the useless and ungrateful Parameswara (who was from INDONESIA) who landed in Malacca and claimed that the land belonged to him!
Hang Tuah and friends were all fromChina , they were assigned to the Malacca Sultanate because Parameswara requested for protection from the Ming Dynasty Emperor! Hence, the rich historical heritage of the Babas & Nyonyas was closely linked to the Seven Voyages to the Western Ocean by Admiral Zheng He who incidentally was a Chinese Muslim himself.
In fact the Babas and Nyonyas were some of the earliest descendants of the aristocratic Admiral Zheng He from China . These Chinese have interbred with the Parameswara's people and till today are still more Chinese than Malay. They follow Chinese customs, wear "baju kurung with kerosang", speaks bazaar Malay language and Hokkien and they eat pork. They co-celebrate every religion existing in this country such as Holy Mary and Jesus, Hindu gods like the "hantu tetek" and even the Islamic "keramat".
They can even sing and pantun in the Malay language fluently.
c. This is the best integrated race and the earliest ever formed in Malaysia but yet they are non bumiputras even though they are one of the earliest....earlier than the so called Malays if there is such a race !!!!
That's why the Hang Tuah series of history is MISSING from the Malaysian SEJARAH today! It's shameful and they destroyed all facts on Hang Tuah just to save their faces !!
Note: Remember Princess Hang Li Poh? - All surname 'HANG'
More Evidence:
The researchers hired by the government found the oldest tombstones (graveyard) in Kelantan in year 2000. Surprisingly, the tombstones were at least 900 years old !
Older than the so-called Batu Bersurat. And the interesting thing was that they all belonged to the CHINESE!
Having landed first in Malacca doesn't mean Malay is the first in Malaysia because during that time, the road was too long or undeveloped for them to reach or see the other side of the coast where the Chinese had landed much earlier. If you want the hard evidence of what the truth of the Research reveals, please write to The Federal Association of Archaeology & Research
of Michigan, USA .
This is a good reason to remind the Bumiputras NOT to ask the Chinese or Indians to go back to their Motherlands because the evidence has shown that Malays were NOT the original people of Malaysia. And anthropologists have yet to ascertain if there was indeed a Malay race!
But, this "race" has been made use of and to oppress others!
Send this to all your Malay and non - Malay friends so that they are aware where their roots come from. Maybe the pendatangs can go back to Indonesia.
I think the question of Sabah and Sarawak secession from the federation does not arise for I think they are in the federation illegally.When Malaysia was formed it was a condition that all three ie. Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak must be in the Federation. The condition was breached when Singapore left the federation thus rendering the agreement void.
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