Reply to - '' Right to secession not allowed under Malaysia Agreement, says Attorney-''

Refering toTan Sri Abdul Gani Patail report on Saturday , 24th January 2015 stated in TheStar/Asia News Network are as follow :

''Right to secession not allowed under Malaysia Agreement, says Attorney-''

It is only under Malaysia Governance but the fact AG responded to those calls is a VICTORY to us, in any ways. Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia Facebook Group in the last 4 years time; we know that  we do make  the Government act like they are intoxicated.

The Prime Minister, Dato Sri Najib Tun Razak  had actually admitted that he  failed to uphold and respect Malaysia Agreement 1963; with reference to  Appendix I.

Appendix I:

The reason given by Lord Lansdowne was that “any State voluntarily entering a federation had an intrinsic right to secede at will, and that it was therefore unnecessary to include it in the Constitution”. Basically what it means here is that Sabah and Sarawak is free to form Malaysia, it is also therefore free to leave.

Sabah and Sarawak does not need the approval of each of the states to leave.  Sabah and Sarawak does not need the support of the Rulers Council to leave.

All Sabah and Sarawak need to do is to pass a resolution in their respective Dewan Undangan Negeri to leave after we have all the majority voices of numbers required by United Nation; Sabah and Sarawak will become a sovereign nation.

I hope the above explanation is sufficient to clear any confusion about th econtent and usage of terms pertaining to the Malaysia Agreement 1963.

From equal rights it is become to few rights and almost to no rights at all. Reference to Appendix 2.

f only referring to Seditious 1948 then what Sabah and Sarawak have in 1948 is in question. Refer to Appendix 3.

Appendix 3:

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"Nama Aku Sarawak"

Nama aku Sarawak. Aku dilahirkan dalam tahun 18.08.1841 dari perut ibuku Brunei Darul Salam dan diserahkan kepada James Brooke Rajah Pertama. Hari jadi pertamaku adalah tanggal 24.09.1841. Ayah Ku yang kedua ialah Charles Brooke. 

Ayah ku yang ketiga ialah Charles Vyner Brooke dan keempat ialah Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke tetapi Baginda tidak sempat menjaga aku kerana dalam tahun 1941 aku diserahkan kepada British kerana Ayah ku tidak mampu untuk menjaga ku setelah 100 tahun keluarga Baginda menjaga ku. Ini adalah kerana Jepun datang padaku dengan niat yang tidak baik.Maka Ayah ku terpaksa menyerahkan aku kepada British kerana tiada kewangan untuk menubuhkan tentera menentang Jepun. Tanggal 22.07.1963 aku pun dewasa dan British melepaskan aku kerana aku sudah dewasa dan mampu menjaga diri (Bujang). 

Akan tetapi Tanggal 16.09.1963 aku dikenalkan kepada 3 orang rakan iaitu Sabah, Singapura dan Persekutuan Malaya. Aku dipujuk untuk Menubuhkan Syarikat Perniagaan yang diberi nama Persekutuan Malaysia. Akan tetapi dalam tahun 1965 rakan ku Singapura menarik diri dari menjadi Rakan Kongsi kerana melihat ada sedikit yang tidak kena dengan Perkongsian ini. .

Tiba-tiba rakan ku yang bernama Persekutuan Malaya menggubal undang-undang baru yang diberi nama Akta 354 1976 yang mana bertujuan menurunkan Pangkat aku dan rakan ku Sabah kepada Status Negeri sedangkan pada awal perjanjian, kami adalah sama rata iaitu sabagai 3 NEGARA yang bergabung menubuhkan perniagaan bernama Persekutuan Malaysia. Sejak dari itu semua hasil perniagaan kami banyak berpihak kepada rakan ku Persekutuan Malaya. Aku dan rakan ku Sabah berasa tidak senang dan selesa dengan keadaan tersebut. Hanya 5% sahaja yang aku dapat begitu juga rakan ku Sabah sedangkan 95% adalah milik rakan kami Persekutuan Malaya. 

Sedangkan kebanyakan Perniagaan yang dijalankan adalah di tanah aku dan rakan ku Sabah. Sampai bila aku harus hidup dengan ketidak adilan ini? Janji manis dulu tinggal janji...setiap saat aku berfikir, PATUTKAH AKU MENINGGALKAN PERNIAGAAN YANG TIDAK ADIL INI DAN MENUBUHKAN PERNIAGAAN PERSENDIRIAN? jawapan aku (SARAWAK) YA!!!! itulah yang terbaik bagiku...

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The Brooke Trust

OUR VISION

The Brooke Trust is a charity working to share and preserve the captivating 175 year old story of the Brooke Family and its connection to the Malaysian state of Sarawak.

The Trust was founded in 2010 with a vision to preserve and share the unique story of the Brookes and Sarawak to inspire and enrich the lives of present and future generations.

The Trust’s mission is to advance charitable aims through strategic projects that inspire learning, preserve and extend knowledge, and engage diverse communities for the greater good. We aim to achieve this mission by bringing the Brooke history and legacy to life through storytelling, record and artifact preservation and imaginative historical projects.

THE STORY

The Brookes were the White Rajahs of Sarawak. They were the stuff of legend; books have been written, music composed, and movies made. Before its fall in 1941 to Japanese conquest, the state of Sarawak on the north-west of the island of Borneo was ruled by three generations of the Brooke family from the West Country of England.

Rajah James effectively ruled until 1863 when in ill health, he returned to England. His nephew Charles was named his successor. Rajah James spent his remaining years at his house, Burrator, on the edge of Dartmoor outside Plymouth, where he died in 1868. Charles’ son, Vyner took over as the third and last Rajah of Sarawak in 1918. Sarawak was occupied by the Japanese from 1941 to 1945. In 1946, the state was formally annexed by Great Britain as its last colonial acquisition. In 1963 it joined with Malaya and Sabah to form the Federation of Malaysia, in which it remains to this day.

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Scotland may unilaterally declare independence in May 2015

I heard of a possible unilateral declaration of Scottish Independence from the late Robin Cook MP in 1983 at the Labour Party Conference in Perth City Hall. I asked Robin about Labour's prospects at the election. We will win Scotland, we agreed but it looked like another Thatcher victory due to English dominance of seat numbers. 

He then said 'How can we let the Scottish people suffer another Tory government hell-bent on union destruction and driving down living standards? I am seriously considering leading all Scottish Labour MP's over the burning bridge to join with the SNP and declare UDI'. 

Robin Cook contemplated UDI but clearly forces within the Scottish party stopped him. Labour has tended to make the mistake of equating their own jobs-worth interests in Scotland as the national interest of the Scottish people and by 1983 Gordon Brown had forgotten his statement of principle in the Red Book for Scotland that if the Union of 1707 stopped serving the interests of the working people of Scotland it should end. Labour do not serve the interests of the people of Scotland otherwise they would acknowledge that there has never been equality between England and Scotland since the Union of 1707. As the McCrone reports of 1974 and 1975 show all the cream of profit from North Sea Oil has been taken from Scotland and spent on England, with projects such as upgrading the north and south circular road in London, the M25 and the Channel Tunnel also paid for from the 'bonanza' of NSO. Economically, Scotland has been robbed and impoverished by subsequent Westminster governments. 

Better Together kid themselves by asserting that the referendum vote on 18th Sept expressed the settled will of the Scottish people. Nothing could be further from reality. Project Fear turned to Project Hysteria in the last two weeks and unleashed the most vicious forces of what was a Westminster-led ideological war upon the Scottish people to kill confidence, kill hope, and undermine the idea that Scots were even capable of running their own affairs. Economic collapse and calamity would ensue if we DARED to vote Yes, huge retail price hikes would be instantaneous, pensions would cease the day after the vote. Essentially we were told DO NOT DARE to VOTE YES - WE OWN YOU AND YOU WILL OBEY YOUR MASTERS! 

It went right off the Richter Scale of political discourse. The 3 riders of the Apocalypse rode among our cities like 'Murder' in Shelley's Mask of Anarchy. Those who think themselves the rulers of Scotland raged their venom via our tv screen and newspapers they own, telling us what they would do if we dared to think for ourselves. So, by any standards, the will of the Scottish people was among some groups, especially the elderly, that of fear, panic and some were petrified. Thugs who would deliberately do this to any community would be judged as criminals and brought to court and sentenced. 

The day of reckoning is coming for the Project Fear masters at the ballot box on 7th May 2015. 

Ruth Davidson MSP and her Labour cohorts are naive in the extreme to believe there was 'intimidation' on both sides of the Referendum debate given the state sponsored ideological war that raged upon the concerns of the people of Scotland in the last weeks of the Referendum. The egg thrown at Jim Murphy was idiotic. Some stupid unpleasant comments on the internet from either side pails to a drop in the ocean compared to the authoritarian anti-democratic abuse orchestrated from Downing Street, aided and abetted by the Scottish Labour crew. The will of the Scottish people could not have been more unsettled, muddied, insulted, scared and in some cases petrified. I saw the fear in pensioner's eyes while campaigning. In old Scots parlance, it was Keep yer fit on their neck. Endless intimidation was the essential buckshot in Project Fear's armoury. 

I, like others, have suggested, since the referendum result, that the Yes Campaign should be maintained and work together at the next election in tandem with the SNP where only one Pro-Independence campaign is fielded in each constituency. This would allow candidates to come from the wide spectrum of the Yes Campaign, if talents such as Iain McWhirter, Jeane Freeman, Lesley Riddoch, Blair Jenkins, David Hayman, Carol Fox, Cat Boyd, Colin Fox , Liam O'Hare, Jonathon Shafi and hopefully others if they are prepared to stand as pro-Independence candidates unopposed by SNP candidates. This makes sense on many levels. Yes literature, car stickers, badges, flags, T-shirts and so on are already made. No need for a new marketing brand for a new organisation. We all know what Yes Scotland stand for. This co-operation needs agreement at senior level but as an SNP councillor In would be more than happy for this community wide approach. Together we awoke a new civic voice in Scottish democracy and its structure is still extant and needs to continue. 

If there is a majority of Pro-Independence MP's elected on 7th May 2015 there are various scenarios that might play out. One is that the majority of SNP and Yes Scotland MP's will compel Westminster to deliver on Devo-max. But Devo-max will not provide the oil and gas revenues to Scotland needed to kick start Scotland out of austerity. England and rUK need that tax take to pay their stupendous debts. We will still have weapons of species obliteration in the Holy loch. £100 billion wasted on the Empire mindset phallic symbol of world status that gives the egos of Westminster 'global influence' to bomb kill and create more Terrorism in the name of peace and stability. We will not have enough funds to eradicate food banks and grotesque socially engineered austerity and poverty wages and socially engineered unemployment which is designed to keep wages as low as possible. Thatcherism started the process of social engineering and it has been continued by every government since, Blue or Red. Tories all. The Prime Minister and Gordon Brown differ on the Vow and are now promising different powers to our parliament. Brown is in a panic that Scotland might get control of raising and spending income tax because that might cause problems for British Labour in London - he is fixated on helping Labour, not the people of Scotland. The vow is in tatters already. Christine Graham MSP was right when she said the relationship between Scotland and London is now over, even if the vote was a majority for the No camp. If Westminster politicians cant even agree on what level of 'Devo-Max' they promised, what will they deliver? 

Labour has already lost Scotland. Whatever the result next May. They could not face the people of Scotland in public meetings. They hid from the people. They were scared to debate with Yes Scotland speakers. They were scared of the people of Scotland. One or two did on a small scale. They hunted in packs. They had meetings where people were invited via email. Selected members of the small crowds. Vetted. Secret venues. This was the behaviour of the people's representatives! What happened to the once proud, open and democratic voices in the Old Labour Labour party I once was a member of? They are dead. Labour have lived in a power 'bubble' of their own self-importance for so long now, they don't even know they are in a bubble. Bubbles burst. 

I believe the grass-roots Yes Scotland campaign should, if we (SNP and Yes Scotland candidates) win a majority of seats in May, make a unilateral declaration of Independence and demonstrate peacefully with unswervingly disciplined law-abiding behaviour, from the day after the election result, in every city of Scotland and demand action from our new MP's and the Scottish Government. Such a demonstration would not be to usurp the authority of our elected Members or Scottish government, but to show that Scotland is ready for major change, whether that be for full 'Devo-Max' or demands for another Referendum or negotiations for Independence should be left to the political leadership of Scotland. Nor would it be wise to call for an occupation of all cities to go on until demands are met, which would be a recipe for confrontation. It is the job of elected representatives and leaders to lead and to speak our collective voice: demonstrations are a way of making that voice heard loud and clear. 

A close examination of electoral statistics for Westminster governments from 1945 show that no government elected in that period had the authority of 50% or more of the total votes cast at any election. All took power with under 50% of votes cast. Two governments were elected with around 35% of votes cast. 

Indeed, when we consider the 40% rule imposed upon the vote at the 1979 Scottish referendum for a Scottish Assembly, and look at the governments elected to Westminster it will come as no surprise to readers that no government since 1945 obtained 40% of the total electorate in their favour. The iron cast stipulation of the 40% rule made for the vote in 1979 was therefore a deliberate stitch-up to postpone the creation of a Scottish Assembly. Labour are not to be trusted and neither are the Tories whatever Vow they make. 

So, if today's Yougov speculation comes true and there are 26 or more SNP/Pro-Independence candidates elected on 7th May, I would suggest that a unilateral declaration of Independence should be considered by grass-roots Yes Scotland campaigners as a means of keeping the feet to the fire of the Westminster elites, be they Blue or Red Tories. If we elect a majority of MP's for Pro-Independence candidates and have one or two more MP's that Labour, then a claim of right for UDI may be subject to question. However, if Yes Scotland/SNP win by 5 or 6 more MP's than Labour in Scotland then the case for UDI is clear because that would put Yes Scotland/SNP around 10% ahead in seats. First past the post governments in the UK have always taken power, even with around 35% of the vote, so Scottish UDI should be seriously considered if we win a large victory in May. 

I would attest that around 20% of the NO votes in the Referendum were cast due to fear and panic and therefore the vote may remain legal and binding, BUT it was a pyrrhic victory with intimidation at its core and does not represent the settled will of the Scots people. It may be far sooner rather than later that our new First Minster can echo the words of Nye Bevan and say 'We were the dreamers, we were the sufferers, now we are the builders'. Scotland must be Independent for the sake of all our people.

Source: http://www.sott.net/article/287750-Scotland-may-unilaterally-declare-independence-in-May-2015

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Anak muda Sabah, wajah baru desak Putrajaya hormat Perjanjian Malaysia

Mereka tidak tergolong dalam mana-mana parti politik, dan berumur antara 25 dan 32 tahun, keempat-empat lelaki yang didakwa menghasut di Kota Kinabalu Isnin lalu kini mewakili wajah orang muda yang berjuang untuk apa yang mereka percaya merupakan hak negeri yang hilang dalam Perjanjian Malaysia.

Mereka menghadapi tuduhan memiliki bahan menggesa Sabah dan Sarawak meninggalkan Malaysia ketika ditangkap di pasar minggu Tuaran pada 1 Februari.

Mereka ialah penganggur Azrie Situ, 25, dan Jemmy Liku Markus Situ, 32, mekanik Erick Jack William, 29, dan pemandu pelancong Joseph Kolis, 29.

“Begitulah trendnya di Sabah sekarang,” presiden Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee memberitahu The Malaysian Insider.

“Orang muda dari latar belakang berbeza yang tidak memihak kepada mana-mana parti politik sekarang memperjuangkan isu yang biasanya diperjuangkan pembangkang."

Bekas ketua menteri Sabah itu berpendapat, trend itu berpunca daripada kesedaran yang meningkat di kalangan pemuda Sabah mengenai sejarah negeri mereka.

"Sejarah yang mereka mula pelajari sekarang tidak terdapat dalam buku teks sekolah. Apa yang mereka temui ialah kerajaan (persekutuan) yang terus-terusan dan terang-terangan tidak mempedulikan Perjanjian Malaysia," kata Yong ketika ditemui baru-baru ini.

Katanya, kesedaran itu kini bertukar menjadi kemarahan dan kebencian, serta menimbulkan keperluan untuk mereka berjuang menuntut hak mereka.

"Pada masa lalu, kerajaan boleh menyuakan kepada rakyat apa sahaja maklumat yang mereka mahu berikan kerana mereka mengawal TV dan radio, tetapi zaman Internet sekarang, ia makin sukar dilakukan.

"Dari Internetlah anak muda Sabah ini mula mengetahui tentang ketidakadilan yang diterima Sabah."

Ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional (BN) Kalabakan Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh ketika memberi amaran ke Putrajaya supaya menjaga kebajikan rakyat Sabah di Parlimen pada Isnin, memberi kredit kepada dakwaan Yong apabila beliau mengatakan belia Sabah, termasuk anak-anaknya, tidak lagi membaca akhbar arus perdana kerana ia dianggap pro-kerajaan, dan sebaliknya memilih laporan berita atas talian.

"Orang tuduh Internet ini penuh dengan penipu. Tetapi belia ini berpendidikan tinggi! Mereka boleh membezakan pembohongan dengan kebenaran."

Empat mereka itu merupakan antara 9 yang ditahan polis di pasar itu – digelar Tuaran 9 oleh media tempatan.

Mereka didakwa dan dibebaskan dengan ikat jamin RM20,000 dan seorang penjamin, sementara 5 yang lain dibebaskan dengan jaminan polis, tetapi tidak pasti jika mereka juga akan didakwa.

Menurut laporan, terdapat "ramai lagi" anak muda yang pergi ke pasar itu untuk menjayakan apa yang didakwa "kempen mengutip tanda tangan" memaksa Putrajaya menghormati Perjanjian Malaysia.

"Adakah satu hasutan mendapatkan tandatangan menuntut kerajaan pusat mengkaji semula Perjanjian Malaysia?" soal Joseph.

"Polis kata kami anggota SSKM (Sabah, Sarawak Keluar Malaysia). Mana mungkin, kerana SSKM ialah laman Facebook. Bagaimanakah kami boleh jadi anggota laman Facebook? Ia bukan satu pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO)," kata Joseph.

Katanya, beliau menganggap penahanan mereka dan dakwaan yang dikenakan terhadap mereka di mahkamah satu "gangguan polis" terhadap mereka yang lantang mahukan perjanjian itu dikaji semula, dakwaan yang disokong bekas wakil rakyat BN Datuk James Ligunjang.

"Kami bukan puak pemisah dan tidak pernah berjuang untuk pemisahan," kata Joseph.

"Apa yang kami mahu hanya supaya Putrajaya menghormati Perjanjian Malaysia dan memberi kami autonomi sebagai sebuah negeri rakan kongsi yang sama rata dalam persekutuan.

"Kami berjuang untuk autonomi, autonomi penuh. Bukan pemisahan.

"Polis yang sebenarnya cuba kaitkan kami dengan kumpulan pemisah melalui laman Facebook."

Joseph berkata sekiranya polis tidak menyerang mereka, “kami boleh dengan mudah dapat 300,000 orang” menandatangani petisyen kajian semula itu.

“Senang saja, di kalangan orang muda di Sabah,” katanya.

Ligunjang, yang putus asa dengan politik BN dan kini bergerak sepenuh masa sebagai aktivis sosial, sedang berusaha mendapatkan sokongan untuk menekan Putrajaya supaya menghormati Perjanjian Malaysia. Katanya, beliau juga diserang pihak polis kerana usahanya itu. 

Beliau mendakwa polis bulan lalu menyita dan merampas kira-kira 31 pasang baju-T dengan perkataan "Hormati Perjanjian Malaysia" daripadanya di bandar Lahad Datu.

Cara polis mendakwa 4 mereka di mahkamah juga dipertikaikan.

Yong, seorang peguam, mempersoalkan mengapa kertas pertuduhan itu tertulis "Mahkamah Tanah Melayu" apabila ia sepatutnya dibuat atas borang Mahkamah Borneo memandangkan mahkamah Sabah dan Sarawak berada di bawah mahkamah Borneo.

Pada masa yang sama, keempat-empat lelaki itu mempersoalkan mengapa pihak polis memaklumkan mengenai keperluan mereka hadir di mahkamah melalui satu kertas nota yang diconteng.

"Mereka tidak ada notis yang elok kah?" soal Jeremy.

Didakwa mengikut Seksyen 4 (2) Akta Hasutan 1948, mereka menghadapi hukuman denda tidak lebih RM2,000 atau penjara tidak melebihi 18 bulan atau kedua-duanya jika sabit kesalahan. – 22 Mac, 2015.

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/bahasa/article/anak-muda-sabah-wajah-baru-desak-putrajaya-hormat-perjanjian-malaysia#sthash.DxXpe3yB.dpuf

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Keluar dari M’sia: Pelawaan Isma disambut baik

Pelawaan Isma disambut baik oleh rata-rata penduduk Sabah dan Sarawak yang ingin menyatakan hasrat untuk keluar dari Persekutuan Malaysia.

KUCHING: Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) telah menyeru masyarakat Kristian Malaysia untuk menerima keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan mengharamkan penggunaan perkataan ‘Allah’ oleh mingguan Katolik The Herald.

Katanya, mereka sentiasa boleh mempertimbangkan berhijrah jika tidak berpuas hati dengan keputusan tersebut.

Pelawaan Isma disambut baik oleh rata-rata penduduk Sabah dan Sarawak yang ingin menyatakan hasrat untuk keluar dari Persekutuan Malaysia yang diluahkan dalam Facebook mereka.

“Itu yang sebaiknya. Keluarkan Sabah dan Sarawak dari Malaysia. Suruh Isma buat kertas cadangan. Hantar kepada Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak,” kata Harry Nelson J. Seliang.

Daniel Aishiteru pula berkata,”Malaysia- bawah Thailand, atas Singapura manakala Sabah & Sarawak dalam pulau Borneo.Jauh panggang dari api bah….memang kita layak keluar. Jangan tunggu lagi…”

“Peluang sudah Isma bagi. Sabah Sarawak bantah isu kalimah Allah, keluar Malaysia. Kita tak payah sain sain surat tak susah payah gaduh mulut. Bagus lah idea Isma bagi nih,” ujar Philip Harry Son.

Beberapa orang tidak merasakan, Malaysia tidak bermakna sudah bagi mereka.

“Saya di Borneo bukan di Malaya. Saya tidak mahu bah Malaya,” ujar Collin Ontak

Gafpelz Blizt Ridexz pula berkata, “Kita bantah perkauman… Mereka semua nak keluarkan kita jadi teruskan… Lebih cepat lebih bagus.. Tak payah nak peduli bah. .Tolong keluarkan Sabah dan Sarawak dari Malaysia….Kami sedia utk keluar!”

Eva Claude menambah, “Siapa tahu Tuhan sedang bagi jalan sama Sabah Sarawak keluar Malaysia,”

Presiden Isma Abdullah Zaik Abd Rahman  (gambar) berkata, sebagai rakyat Malaysia, orang Kristian mesti menerima ketuanan Islam di negara ini.

“Mereka boleh memilih untuk bergerak ke mana-mana negara lain jika mereka tidak dapat menerima ketuanan Islam dan royalti yang melindungi ketuanan agama,” ujar Abdullah Zaik Abd Rahman dalam satu kenyataan kelmarin

Sebelum ini Najib telah menandatangani sepuluh perkara di mana membenarkan penduduk Kristian menggunakan kalimah ‘Allah’ dalam Alkitab (Bible) bahasa Indonesia, Malaysia serta bahasa pribumi Iban, Kadazan Dusun dan Lun Bawang.

Source: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/10/17/pelawaan-isma-disambut-baik/

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Frustration over Malaysia Agreement coming to a boil in Sabah

Frustration over Putrajaya's refusal to review and honour the Malaysia Agreement 1963 and its “condescending colonialist’s attitude” towards Sabah is slowly coming to a boil in this touristic “Land Below the Wind”.

For a long time, condemning Putrajaya over the alleged failure to honour the agreement used to be the domain of the opposition but now it appears to be no longer the case.

The Malaysia Agreement brought Sabah, then known as North Borneo, and the independent states of Sarawak and Singapore with the Federated Malay state of Malaya to form a new union, the Federation of Malaysia on September 16, 1963.

A list of 20 points were to safeguard the interests, rights and autonomy of the people of North Borneo upon the formation. Sarawak, too, has a similar proposal, known as 18-point agreement, with certain differences in content.

A former Barisan Nasional (BN) assemblyman Datuk James Ligunjang said the frustration and anger cut across the board, even politics, pointing out the case of the four young men charged in a Kota Kinabalu court last Monday with sedition.

The four were alleged to have in their possession materials calling for Sabah and Sarawak's secession from Malaysia.

He said that while Putrajaya could turn a deaf ear to charges by opposition politicians like Datuk Dr Jeffery Kitingan, the chairman of Star, the warnings by BN politicians like Kalabakan MP Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh on Putrajaya's treatment of Sabah must be particularly worrying for the ruling coalition.

“It showed that Sabahans all share the view that the Malaysia Agreement had not been honoured and Sabah had been unfairly treated by Putrajaya,” Ligunjang said.

Ghapur on March 16 had warned Putrajaya in Parliament to take care of Sabahans and that if they don't, “we (BN) will lose”.

Before Ghapur's outburst, none of the Sabah BN leaders dared voiced out their resentment publicly on the issue.

Former Sabah chief minister Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee on Thursday claimed Putrajaya had for years avoided taking a look at the Malaysia Agreement as they sought to dominate Sabah.

Giving some insight into Putrajaya's reaction and attitude whenever Sabah's rights and demands were raised with former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Yong said Abdullah and Umno ministers would often try to sidestep the issue in what he called as “the inconvenient truth”.

“These are the sticky points we have often bugged them and which they would rather sweep under the carpet,” said Yong, who has since left BN to form his own opposition party, Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP).

The “sticky points” which had made Sabahans most unhappy include the influx of illegal immigrants, which had change the state's racial demography; “legalising” these illegals, particularly Muslim Filipinos, Indians, Pakistanis and Indonesian, by issuing them identification cards under the so-called Project IC; the security threat and work competition these “new Malaysians” posed and the demand for an increase in the oil and gas royalty.

Former Petagas assemblyman Ligunjang added Sabahans' anger at the continued plunder of the state's natural resources, particularly oil and gas, and the status of their state being downgraded from an independent nation and an equal partner in the federation to a mere state like Selangor or Johor, to the list.

“The frustration is a culmination of so many things,” he said, adding that one of the examples was the presence of Umno in Sabah.

“Umno's presence in Sabah violates the Malaysia Agreement as Malaya should not be interfering in the politics of Sabah and even Sarawak.

“They cannot be here as they do not comply with the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement.

“Also, what happened to the agreement to return 40% of the income generated by Sabah back to the state?

“Sabah and Sarawak are endowed with rich natural resources and today, after 52 years of plundering, we have both been reduced to beggars, begging to Putrajaya for handouts,” Ligunjang said.

Ligunjang, like Yong, too, has quit BN, disillusioned by what he said “Putrajaya's continued attempt to dominate Sabah”.

Wearing a white T-shirt with the words “Hormati Perjanjian Malaysia” (honour the Malaysia Agreement) emblazoned across his chest, Ligunjang describes himself now as “a full-time social activist” giving awareness talks on the Malaysia Agreement and soliciting support to press Putrajaya to honour it.

He said if Putrajaya continued to ignore the agreement and disregard calls by Sabahans, then “what options do we Sabahans have” as he spoke of seeking the British government and the United Nations' help in getting Putrajaya to sit down with the signatories of the agreement “to see if the spirit of the agreement had been achieved”.

“If we don't stand up to them now, our situation will worsen.” – March 22, 2015.

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/frustration-over-malaysia-agreement-coming-to-a-boil-in-sabah#sthash.O9pXLPDY.sD2kgVba.dpuf

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Young Sabahans, new face pushing Putrajaya to honour Malaysia Agreement

They do not belong to any political party and aged between 25 and 32. The four men who were charged with sedition in Kota Kinabalu last Monday are now the face of young Sabahans who are taking the mantle of fighting for what they believe to be the state's lost rights in the Malaysia Agreement.

The four are now contesting the charge that they were in possession of materials urging Sabah and Sarawak to leave Malaysia when arrested at the Tuaran Sunday market on February 1.

They are Azrie Situ, 25 and Jemmy Liku Markus Situ, 32, unemployed; Erick Jack William, 29, a mechanic; and Joseph Kolis, 29, a tour guide.

“That's the trend in Sabah now,” Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee told The Malaysian Insider.

“Young people of different backgrounds and who are apolitical are now taking up an issue that used to be the domain of the opposition.”

The former Sabah chief minister attributed the trend to a growing awareness among young Sabahans of their state's history.

“The history they are beginning to learn now is not found in our school textbooks. What they have found is a continued and flagrant disregard by the (federal) government of the Malaysia Agreement,” Yong said recently.

He said it was this awareness that had turned into anger and resentment and the need to fight for what should rightfully be theirs.

“While in the past, the government could feed the people with what only information they want to give because they control the TV and radio, they find it increasingly difficult now in the age of the Internet.

“It is from the Internet that these young Sabahans learn of the injustices Sabah is getting.”

Barisan Nasional MP for Kalabakan Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh when warning Putrajaya to take care of Sabahans in Parliament on Monday, lent credence to Yong's claim when he said Sabah youth, including his children, do not read mainstream newspapers because it was perceived as pro-government, and so turned to the online news reports instead.

“People accuse the Internet of being full of liars. But these youth are educated people. They can tell lies from the truth.”

The four were among nine people – dubbed the "Tuaran 9" by local media – rounded up by the police at the market.

While four were charged and released on RM20,000 bail in one surety each, the other five were released on police bail, uncertain if they, too, would be charged.

Reportedly, there were “many more” young people who had gone to the market to what they claimed was a “signature collection campaign” to force Putrajaya to honour the Malaysia Agreement.

“Is it seditious to solicit signatures to demand the federal government review the Malaysia Agreement?” asked Joseph.

“The police are claiming that we are members of SSKM (Sabah, Sarawak Keluar Malaysia or Sabah, Sarawak to secede from Malaysia in English).

“How can that be when SSKM is a Facebook page? How can we be members of a Facebook page? It is not even an NGO,” Joseph said.

He said their arrest and subsequent charge in court was “police harassment” against those who clamour for a review of the agreement, a claim that is supported by a former BN assemblyman Datuk James Ligunjang (pic).

“We are not secessionists and have never fought for secession,” Joseph said.

“All we want is for Putrajaya to honour the Malaysia Agreement and give us the autonomy as an equal partner state in the federation.

“We are fighting for autonomy, full autonomy. Not secession.

“It is the police who are trying to link us to secession via the Facebook page.”

 Joseph said if police had not harassed them, “we could easily get 300,000 people” to sign the petition for a review.

“Easily, among young people in Sabah,” he said.

Ligunjang, who has since given up on BN politics and has gone full time as a social activist drumming support to press Putrajaya to honour the Malaysia Agreement, said he, too, had been harassed by the police over his work to get Putrajaya honour the agreement.

He claimed police last month seized and confiscated about 31 T-shirts with the words “Hormati Perjanjian Malaysia” (honour the Malaysia Agreement) from him in the town of Lahad Datu.

The manner the police charged the four in court was also questioned.

Yong, a lawyer, is questioning why the charge sheet was on that of “Mahkamah Tanah Melayu” when it should be on the Mahkamah Borneo form since Sabah and Sarawak courts come under the Borneo court.

At the same time, the four asked why the police informed them of their court appearance by handing them a scribbled note.

“Don't they have proper notice?” Jemmy, the oldest of the four, asked. – March 22, 2015.

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/young-sabahans-new-face-pushing-putrajaya-to-honour-malaysia-agreement#sthash.MDDTSFDz.dpuf

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Sarawak Isytihar 'Perang' Terhadap PATI

KUCHING, 21 Mac (Bernama) -- Selepas 'perang' terhadap kegiatan pembalakan haram membuahkan hasil, kerajaan negeri Sarawak kini mengisytiharkan 'perang' terhadap pendatang asing tanpa izin (PATI).

Ketua Menteri Tan Sri Adenan Satem semasa mengumumkan perkara itu berkata langkah itu perlu diambil sebelum masalah PATI di negeri ini menjadi besar dan sukar untuk diatasi.

Beliau berkata kini terdapat ramai PATI terutama orang Suluk dan Bajau dari Filipina khususnya di Miri.

"Mereka ini perlu segera ditangkap dan dihantar pulang ke negara asal mereka sebelum menimbulkan masalah besar yang sukar diselesaikan di kemudian hari," katanya ketika berucap merasmikan Hari Perhutanan Antarabangsa peringkat negeri di sini, Sabtu.

Adenan berkata Jabatan Imigresen telah dimaklumkan tentang masalah PATI dari Filipina itu sejak setahun lalu tetapi tidak mengambil tindakan penguatkuasaan tegas dan sehubungan itu beliau telah mengarahkan jabatan segera bertindak tegas untuk menahan PATI terbabit.

Beliau bagaimanapun mahu supaya PATI yang ditahan dilayan baik, sesuai dengan layanan yang sepatutnya diberi kepada manusia terutama dalam kalangan kanak-kanak dan ibu mereka.

Sementara itu, Adenan berkata operasi antipembalakan haram, yang dilancarkan sejak beliau menjadi ketua menteri kini mulai membuahkan hasil.

Katanya, setiap hari pasukan penguat kuasa Jabatan Hutan melancarkan serbuan dan rampasan kayu balak yang ditebang secara haram.

Beliau turut mengingatkan pegawai dan kakitangan Jabatan Hutan Sarawak dan Perbadanan Perhutanan Sarawak (SFC) bahawa tindakan tegas termasuk pendakwaan di mahkamah akan diambil terhadap mereka sekiranya didapati bersekongkol dengan syarikat terbabit dalam kegiatan pembalakan haram.

Dalam pada itu, Ketua Menteri berkata kerajaan negeri juga merancang untuk memperluaskan taman negara dan kawasan hutan simpan di negeri ini.

"Kita berharap pada suatu hari nanti kita menebang dan menjual kayu balak dari kawasan hutan yang ditanam, manakala hutan semula jadi kita dikekalkan.

"Bagaimanapun buat masa ini kita tidak boleh berbuat demikian kerana kawasan hutan tanam kita masih tidak mencukupi untuk menghasilkan kayu balak yang mencukupi," katanya.

Adenan berkata semua itu perlu dilaksanakan bagi memulihara hutan tropika untuk generasi akan datang.

Sementara itu, Pengarah Jabatan Hutan negeri Sapuan Ahmad berkata penguat kuasa jabatan berkenaan akan memperluaskan lagi operasi pembanterasan pembalakan haram.

Source:http://www.sarawakiana.net/2015/03/sarawak-isytihar-perang-terhadap-pati.html

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#idefend – Making sure civil society has its voice

An initiative of the Delegation of the European Union to the UN in Geneva in partnership with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Permanent Missions of Brazil, the Republic of Korea and Tunisia to the UN in Geneva.

Every day in every part of the world, NGOs, human rights defenders and other civil society representatives contribute to the promotion, protection and advancement of human rights. They are also an integral part of the UN Human Rights Council, where it is their voices and stories that provide States with essential information on human rights violations. Yet, civil society advocates across the globe, including those who attend the Human Rights Council, are too often exposed to harassment and intimidation.

The #idefend campaign takes a firm public stance to support the voices of civil society. #idefend aims at expressing solidarity with all those human rights defenders and civil society actors, whose dedication and everyday work improve the human rights of people in every corner of the world. Join the campaign and help empower those who speak up for human rights!

“Human rights defenders are not violent seditionists, criminals, nor bloody revolutionaries, as so many governments like to portray them. They are the best of us, all of us. And they have a message. To all governments, we say: focus on their message. Listen to what they are saying. Understand the message, talk to them about it, be persuaded or persuade, without violence, instead of silencing them, punishing them, their families, and their communities.”

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

“Sadly, over the past years, we have observed a worrying trend at the Human Rights Council: Human Rights Defenders and civil society representatives are hampered from speaking at the Council, sometimes they are harassed upon their arrival to Geneva, or subject to reprisals in their home country upon their return. This is not acceptable.”

Peter Sørensen, Head of the EU Delegation to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva.

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Source: http://idefend-campaign.net/

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Gaji Minimum Tidak Boleh Lebih RM800 di Sabah, Sarawak

KUALA LUMPUR 21 Jun - Gaji minimum tidak boleh ditetapkan terlalu tinggi bagi Sabah dan Sarawak melainkan pada tahap RM800 sebulan.

Timbalan Menteri Sumber Manusia, Datuk Maznah Mazlan berkata, penetapan pada tahap itu dibuat memandangkan gaji penengah di dua negeri berkenaan pada masa ini sangat rendah iaitu masing-masing RM577 dan RM738 sebulan.

“Gaji penengah yang rendah memberi indikator bahawa majikan tidak mempunyai keupayaan untuk membayar gaji yang tinggi.

“Sekiranya gaji minimum ditetapkan terlalu tinggi ia berkemungkinan terpaksa mengurangkan jumlah pekerja.

“Jika keadaan ini berlaku, ia akan merugikan pekerja kerana mereka kehilangan pekerjaan dan ini akan menimbulkan masalah pengangguran," katanya dalam sesi soal jawab pada persidangan Dewan Rakyat, hari ini.

Source: http://www.mohr.gov.my/index.php/ms/archives/92-archive-news/294-gaji-minimum-tidak-boleh-lebih-rm800-di-sabah-sarawak

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Borneo rights talk not ‘threat’ to Federation

It could mean that demands are being made because there was something lacking in the process of implementing promises.

KOTA KINABALU: The view from academia in Borneo is that any discussion on the rights issue should not be viewed by the Federal Government as a security threat to the Federation. These discussions have been hogging the limelight in the media, social media and public forums especially since 2013, the 50th year since the word Malaysia was officially used to include the Sabah and Sarawak parts of Borneo as well.

Any discussion on these rights, said Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Professor Dr. Kamarulzaman Askandar, is within the context of the circumstances surrounding 1963 when Sabah, along with Sarawak and Singapore found itself in a Federation with the peninsula. “It should not be viewed by the Federal Government as a security threat,” reiterated Kamarulzaman who heads the International relations Programme at UMS. “It’s not a security issue but rather we need to work on finding what it is that caused for such demands (within the context of the rights issues) to arise and why.”

He was elaborating on his academic paper presented on the topic, “Conflicts, Peace and Nation Building” at the Nation Building Seminar at the YTL Auditorium, UMS, on Wednesday.

“When trying to diagnose an illness, for instance, the key was to inspect internally rather than to simply rely on surface analysis,” said Kamarulzaman.”

Hence, he added, rather than consuming efforts on searching for and apprehending individuals promoting secession, more efforts should instead be put into understanding the core areas on which such demands were built. “The people involved in the secession issue based their movement on points such as where Sabah and Sarawak stood at the time of Malaysia’s formation, division of power, distribution of development priorities, and so on,” he pointed out.

The concept of nation in this country, he conceded, was still vague. “But never be afraid of variety because that is where our strength instead of weakness lies, so long as we find the proper balance.”

Earlier, in answering questions from the floor during the question and answer session after his talk, on whether the demands made by Sabah were reasonable, Kamarulzaman said: “There’s a need to determine whether or not the demands are reasonable.”

“When there are things formally promised through an agreement, like the 20-Point Agreement in Sabah’s case, for example, it could mean that demands are being made because there was something lacking in the process of implementing promises,” said the don. “I think it’s reasonable to expect consistent supply of electricity for instance, or for roads to be in good condition, for remote villages to get the basic necessities, or for all children to get quality education.”

Finding the right balance is the answer, said Kamarulzaman, in finding solutions for peace among all communities in Malaysia. “If there’s imbalance in priorities and a certain group gets a bigger slice of the cake, dissatisfaction is bound to surface.”

And in the context where a certain group of people receive more benefits and more opportunities than the rest, he cautioned, there will come a time when the oppressed – those who are not getting what they want and need, or simply not getting what they were promised – will revolt or at least voice their cry for their rights and values to be upheld.

Source: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/03/20/borneo-rights-talk-not-threat-to-federation/

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Secession group says willing to go to jail to uphold Sabah rights

KOTA KINABALU, March 20 ― Frustrated and tired of being denied rights in their own land, the four volunteers of the outlawed Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia (SSKM) movement now say they are willing to go to jail in order for their views to be heard.

Jemmy Liku Markus Ratu, 32, Erick Jack William, 28, Joseph Kolis, 29 and Azrie Situ, 24, were charged last week under the Sedition Act for being in possession of pamphlets allegedly propagating Sabah’s secession from the federation.

“If fighting for our rights will land us in jail, then so be it. We have to do what it takes to be heard. This is the sacrifices we have to make for the cause we believe in,” said Azrie, the youngest of the four.

“People get the wrong impression that we are pushing for secession, because of the Facebook group name (SSKM, or Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia), but it is just a name to attract attention.

“What we are really aiming to do is to spread awareness of the formation of Malaysia and the breach of the Malaysia Agreement 1963,” Erick told Malay Mail Online.

According to Erick, all SSKM wants to is a thorough review of the agreement, and whether its conditions were being adhered to.

“How is expressing ourselves and fighting for our rights seditious?” he asked.

Despite facing the possibility of being thrown in jail for a maximum of 18 months or a fine of RM2,000 or both, the four remain committed to SSKM’s goals.

Jemmy, a half-Kadazan, half-Timorese said that they knew the risks getting into the movement, which they claimed were under a UK-based NGO, Sabah-Sarawak Union, founded by Doris Jones, the woman wanted by police here for allegedly masterminding the SSKM movement online.

“Someone has to do it, and we are tired of relying on our leaders who do not seem to understand what we are going through, and the struggles we face,” he said.

The litany of grievances cited by the four are not new ― land grabs, the influx of illegal immigrants, comparative lack of infrastructure and development, distortion of historical facts regarding Malaysia’s formation as well as oil royalty rights.

According to them, the SSKM movement on Facebook has attracted like-minded Sabahans of all races and religions and age groups.

The SSKM group page itself has garnered over 32,000 “Likes” while more supporters “follow” their leader Doris Jones’s profile for motivation and support.

“Everyone does things on their own willing. During the recent incident in Tuaran, there were many of us, up to 50, and everyone came on their own.

“We didn’t even know who else was part of the group,” said Azrie, adding that the bail amount of RM10,000 each for court was raised entirely from volunteer’s donations.

The four were also part of the “Tuaran 9” who were arrested for allegedly possessing seditious pamphlets last February in the Tuaran tamu grounds.

Their lawyer, Tengku Fuad Ahmad, said that the four were clearly very dedicated to their cause and were ready to go to jail for it.

“I have never met such  people who are so very sincerely committed to the issue of Sabah's rights within Malaysia. 

“My duty is strictly limited to defending them but one cannot help but respect the four because at heart they are idealists; persons committed to the protection and promotion of Sabah rights,” he said when contacted by Malay Mail Online.

All four had pleaded not guilty to the charge under Section 4 (2) of the Sedition Act 1948. The hearing is on May 18 to 22.

Source: http://m.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/secession-group-says-willing-to-go-to-jail-to-uphold-sabah-rights#sthash.uUfua5Z1.5PgHoUFX.dpuf

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4 lelaki ditahan hasut rakyat Sabah, Sarawak keluar Malaysia

Empat lelaki didakwa mengikut Akta Hasutan 1948 di Kota Kinabalu hari ini kerana membuat pungutan suara mengajak penduduk Sabah dan Sarawak meninggalkan Malaysia, lapor The Star Online.

Pungutan suara itu dikatakan mempunyai kaitan dengan laman web Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia yang menggalakkan kedua-dua negeri Borneo itu meninggalkan persekutuan Malaysia, menurut portal berita berkenaan.

Empat tertuduh itu ialah Azrie Situ, 25, Suleiman Liku Markus Situ, 32, Erick Jack William, 29, dan Joseph Kolis, 29, yang mengaku bersalah di Mahkamah Sesyen Kota Kinabalu selepas pertuduhan dibacakan di depan Hakim Dean Wayne Dally.

Mereka didakwa mengikut Seksyen 4(2) Akta Hasutan 1948.

Keempat-empat tertuduh dibebaskan dengan ikat jamin RM20,000 dan seorang penjamin serta perlu menyerahkan passport masing-masing.

Menurut portal itu empat tertuduh berkenaan adalah antara 9 yang ditahan pada 1 Februari lalu kerana memiliki bahan menghasut. Mereka dilaporkan mengedarkan risalah mengenai hak Sabah dan petisyen untuk menyokong hak mereka.

Laman Facebook Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia dikendalikan seorang aktivis Sabah, Doris Jones yang kini menetap di London. Laman sosial berkenaan kini mempunyai lebih 32,000 “likes”.

Polis Sabah sudah mengeluarkan waran untuk menahannya tetapi Jones memberitahu media tempatan dia tidak mendengar daripada mana-mana pihak berkuasa atau polis antarabangsa (Interpol) mengenai waran itu.

Pada 13 Mac, polis berkata, mereka sudah menghubungi Jones.

Pungutan suara berkenaan boleh ditakrifkan sebagai menghasut mengikut Akta Hasutan selepas Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak berkata bahawa undang-undang itu akan dikekal dan diperkukuhkan.

Perbuatan itu ketika ini memberikan lingkungan luas kepada pihak berkuasa untuk memutuskan takrifan hasutan.

Keempat-empat tertuduh diwakili peguam Arthur Chin.

Sementara itu, sekumpulan kira-kira 100 penyokong  dilapor hadir di depan mahkamah hari ini sebagai tanda sokongan.

Antaranya individu yang hadir ialah bekas Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee, yang kini menyertai pembangkang.

Pungutan suara di kalangan nasionalis Sabah semakin meningkat sejak kebelakangan ini terhadap kesedaran orang ramai mengenai soal kemiskinan, imigresen dan isu politik seperti "Projek IC", satu langkah untuk mengubah demografi dan daftar pemilih di negeri ini dengan mengeluarkan kad pengenalan kepada pendatang. – 16 Mac, 2015.

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/bahasa/article/4-lelaki-ditahan-hasut-rakyat-sabah-sarawak-keluar-malaysia#sthash.rjfHGpZO.dpuf

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Abusing the Private Member’s Bill – Chan Foong Hin

This is an open letter to Parliament Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin.

The Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II 1993 amendments tabling by PAS-led Kelantan state government in the state assembly sitting today in Kota Baru, symbolises a no U-turn as far as the hudud debate is concerned. It marks the very first step towards implementation of the theocratic law in Kelantan.

No one can predict what would happen to Malaysia in future, if the next step – Private Member’s Bill is tabled and then passed in the Parliament, allowing Kelantan to implement its hudud law.

It is wrong for PAS to justify their move by saying that “the situation in Kelantan is so unique that even Umno is supporting these amendments” (Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad)  and “please respect the democratic proses in Kelantan” (PAS information chief Datuk Mahfuz Omar).

It is not about uniqueness of Kelantan and respecting the people’s will. I respect every right and will of Kelantan state to implement hudud there. But it can’t be done in the expense of equal partnership spirit of Malaysia Agreement 1963.

As I have argued in my previous article that, hudud is not about a personal religious practice involving Muslims only, but it is a matter of political system involving all Malaysians.

The Ninth Schedule of the Federal Constitution categorically places “Civil and criminal law and procedure and the administration of justice” under Federal List. If any state-level hudud is allowed, it is a blow to Federal Constitution, as it places the particular state (Kelantan) to be more superior then other states as the power on criminal justice under Federal List transferred to State List, without consultation by the other states.

The argument that hudud will be confined to Kelantan is inaccurate as once the amendments are approved and passed, all other states might also proceed to make similar changes.

As the honourable speaker is from Sabah, I think you have no dispute that it is a consensus for every Sabah politician across the political divide that:

1. The rights and freedom of Sabahans must be defended and never compromised, not only in Sabah, but in other parts of Malaysia;

2. The rights and privileges of Sabah as one of the three nations forming Malaysia in 1963 must be defended and not compromised.

We from Sabah never signed up for a theocratic federation – in full or in part – in 1963. Criminal justice is categorically a Federal power under the Ninth Schedule of the Federal Constitution. If it was made clear then Sabahans will face the shariah criminal law in Kelantan by forming Malaysia, I think Sabah would have surely chosen to stay under British or go independent in other ways over the option of Malaysia.

The implementation of Kelantan Shariah Criminal Code 1993 will land those from Sabah staying in or traveling to Kelantan in a legal system that the founding fathers of Sabah did not sign up for in 1963, with the following consequences:

(a) If he or she – regardless of faith – fell prey to thefts, robberies, bodily harms included attempted murder and manslaughter in Kelantan committed by Muslims, their cases will be tried in the shariah court, and not common law court.

(b) Sabah crime victims cannot be the witness in court for their own case if they are non-Muslim, women, underage Muslims or Muslims with questionable religious conducts (Section 41 of the Code).

(c) If Sabahan Muslims are accused of stealing or robbing of anything worth more than 4.45g of gold (about RM 610 at current price), they will be tried in shariah court and may face the punishment of amputation.

(d) All Sabahan Muslims who are convicted of adultery or sodomy in Kelantan may face death penalty by way of stoning [Sections 10, 11(1) and 16].

(e) All Sabahan Muslims who are convicted of drinking in Kelantan may face 40 to 80 lashes [Section 22].

(f) All Sabahan Muslims who are convicted of undermining or opposing the Islamic faith (menjejaskan atau berlawanan dengan aqidah agama Islam) through actions or expression may face death and his/her property may be confiscated.

Any changes to this effect must only happen with the consent of both Sabah and Sarawak. Article 161A of the Federal Constitution stipulates that any constitutional amendment involving division of power between federal and state governments must not only be passed by a two-thirds majority in the Dewan Rakyat, but also requiring the concurrence of the governors of Sabah and Sarawak.

If Sabah were to agree to grant Kelantan additional power in criminal justice, we from Sabah would like more power to Sabah including citizenship, education, medical, policing and military, trade and commerce, etc.

The collusion by the Federal Government and Kelantan government to make possible of expanding Kelantan's power to cover criminal justice system under Article 76A, which denies the power of both the 57 parliamentarians from Sabah (including Labuan) and Sarawak and the governors of Sabah and Sarawak to have any say, is a constitutional coup against Sabah and Sarawak.

If Kelantan – which unsuccessfully opposed the formation of Malaysia through a constitutional challenge in 1963 –  insists that the state can do anything it likes with the consent of Putrajaya and makes itself higher than other states especially Sabah and Sarawak which are on par with the entire Malaya, it should consider leaving Malaysia.

Instead of Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia, Kelantan Keluar Malaysia will be more apt.

The Parliamentary Speaker has every duty to prevent any private member's bill that is tantamount to nullifying the Malaysia Agreement and tearing Malaysia apart from being tabled. Honourable Speaker, you hold the key to save Federation of Malaysia from tearing apart. Please reject the PAS private member bill to safeguard the aspirations of the people of Sabah and Malaysian interests. – March 18, 2015.

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/parliament-speaker-should-not-allow-abuse-of-private-members-bill-chan-foon

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Countries that aren't quite.

This map shows all the states in the world that have some kind of independence movement, but that independence hasn't been declared, or not recognised by other states.

***Can you see Sabah (formerly known as North Borneo) and Sarawak Flag???***

Source: http://blacksamcashinterestingthigs.blogspot.com/2010/09/countries-that-arent-quite.html

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Koleksi Video SSKM-SSU(UK)

Sila luangkan masa anda untuk menonton video-video SSKM-SSU(UK) melalui link ini;

>>>Koleksi Video SSKM-SSU(UK)<<<

Selain video SSKM-SSU(UK), pihak kami juga ada menyelitkan video-video yang berkaitan dengan Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak. Pendedahan tentang sejarah sebenar dan penipuan turut juga diselitkan dalam blog Koleksi Video SSKM-SSU(UK). Kini, anda tidak perlu bersusah-payah untuk mencarinya didalam youtube kerana semuanya boleh didapati dalam blog tersebut. Sila sebarkan kepada rakan-rakan anda tentang kewujudan blog Koleksi Video SSKM-SSU(UK) ini.

Semoga anda semua dapat menonton video-video tersebut dan mendapat mesej yang jelas bahawa Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak MESTI BERPISAH daripada persekutuan malaysia ini kerana kewujudannya kini bukan lagi untuk memberikan kebaikan kepada Bangsa Negara Sabah dan Bangsa Negara Sarwak sebaliknya ia telah menindas selama 53 tahun ini sejah 16 September 1963.

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Pengasas SABAH SARAWAK UNION (SSU-UK)

Mungkin anda tertanya-tanya tentang siapakah pengasas kepada Sabah Sarawak Union (SSU-UK). Maka, persoalan anda kini sudah terjawab melalui perkongsian info ini. Ya, SSU(UK) telah ditubuhkan oleh Dua orang Nationalist Borneo daripada Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak di United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK).

SSU(UK) berhak bercakap bagi pihak Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak kerana NGO ini adalah NGO Borneo yang memfokuskan kepada Kemerdekaan Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak. Ia telah ditubuhkan pada pada Tahun 2013.

Sebarkan info ini kepada semua rakyat Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak bahawa NGO ini adalah milik bersama...

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