WE CAN CONTINUE TO BE DELUDED BY “INDEPENDENCE IN MALAYSIA” DESPITE 49 YEARS OF BEING COLONIZED & CHEATED OF OUR RIGHTS!
OR WE CAN BE INDEPENDENT & RULE OURSELVES & USE OUR RESOURCES FOR OUR PEOPLE.
Maybe voting to get rid of UMNO will get rid of some problems but we will remain under foreign Malayan rule.
Pakatan’s manifesto says they want to integrate Sabah and Sarawak more closely into the Malayan political system.
They will also retain control of our oil and gas with their promise to give us only 20% of the royalties.
These 2 statement indicate that for all its appeal to the broad masses, Pakatan leaders still have a colonial mentality and want to keep us colonized.
Why can’t we rule ourselves and use our resources to develop Sarawak and not Malaya? There is nothing to stop us if we are determined and united to fight for independence.
Sarawak was independent state from 1842 to 1942! We have been a colony since 1942.
All over the world there are still many colonized countries fighting for independence.
Scotland is a good example. They were conquered and colonized and absorbed into the “unite Kingdom” over 300 years ago.
The Scots never gave up their independent spirit and now they will be holding an independence referendum in 2014.
This is a comment taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence
“The United Nations Charter enshrines the right of peoples to self-determination, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights also guarantees peoples’ right to change nationality; the UK is a signatory to both documents. Politicians in both the Scottish and British parliaments have endorsed the right of the Scottish people to self-determination, including former UK Prime Ministers John Major and Margaret Thatcher.[61] The Claim of Right 1989 was signed by every then-serving Scottish Labour and Scottish Liberal Democrat MP, with the exception of Tam Dalyell. Johann Lamont stated in her December 2011 acceptance speech for the Scottish Labour leadership that “sovereignty lies with the people of Scotland”.[62]
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We the people Sabah and Sarawak also have the right to self-determination and the right to change nationality.
The “Malaysian” nationality was imposed on us by the British through armed force. (Read the history of the anti-Malaysia Brunei Uprising Dec 1962 and Sarawak guerrilla independence war). They took away our fight of self-determination in 1863 and handed over the reins of government to their proxy the Malayan UMNO regime who became our new colonial masters.
We are yet to regain our independence of 1942. We should be proud of our independent history. But most important independence means we free ourselves from foreign Malayan rule and we decide how our lives and countries should be run.
East Timor (2000) and Southern Sudan (2010) also had their independence referendum and they chose independence. They were determined not to be ruled by foreigners and they fought long and hard to free themselves. These two new nations and also Scotland all control their own oil and gas.
“Malaysia” is a illegal colonial creation. The “Malaysia Agreement” is just an UNEQUAL treaty enforced on Sabah and Sarawak with British gunboat diplomacy. It is not a binding agreement.
Even if it were, the Malayan UMNO government has never observed and complied with the terms and in fact broke all of those affecting our rights. So UMNO has repudiated the Agreement and we are not bound by it at all.
We must unite and demand restoration of Sarawak national independence.