A quick guide to the Sabah for Sulu issue. Your verdict, please.
here's a quick summary...
The Sultanate of Brunei was a colonizing overlord over territories that now constitute Sabah - who gave some of that territory to another colonizing overlord the Sultanate of Sulu who went into business with another colonizing overlord the British North Borneo Chartered Company who gave Sabah to the British Crown. The people who lived in those territories that now make the territory of Sabah were not asked what they thought or how they felt about any of these power handovers. They did not have a referendum or cast a vote.
Sabah exercised her right to self determination for the first time in her history, by becoming her own sovereign and independent state on 31st August 1963 rejecting all previous overlords and colonizers. She then decided to join Sarawak and Malaya (and Singapore) and form a new country called Malaysia on the 16th of September 1963. Without Sabah there would be no Malaysia.
The Sultanate of Sulu and the Philippines do not have a claim over Sabah because the people of Sabah have rejected them and made a choice through the right to self-determination. This choice is reinstated at every general election and every time we pay our Malaysian taxes.
Ask Sabahans what they think about the Philippines and the Sultanate of Sulu's claim to Sabah. Sabah belongs to Sabahans.
The Sultanate of Brunei was a colonizing overlord over territories that now constitute Sabah - who gave some of that territory to another colonizing overlord the Sultanate of Sulu who went into business with another colonizing overlord the British North Borneo Chartered Company who gave Sabah to the British Crown. The people who lived in those territories that now make the territory of Sabah were not asked what they thought or how they felt about any of these power handovers. They did not have a referendum or cast a vote.
Sabah exercised her right to self determination for the first time in her history, by becoming her own sovereign and independent state on 31st August 1963 rejecting all previous overlords and colonizers. She then decided to join Sarawak and Malaya (and Singapore) and form a new country called Malaysia on the 16th of September 1963. Without Sabah there would be no Malaysia.
The Sultanate of Sulu and the Philippines do not have a claim over Sabah because the people of Sabah have rejected them and made a choice through the right to self-determination. This choice is reinstated at every general election and every time we pay our Malaysian taxes.
Ask Sabahans what they think about the Philippines and the Sultanate of Sulu's claim to Sabah. Sabah belongs to Sabahans.
source : New Straights Times Malaysia FB
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