Sarawak may leave Malaysia sooner than expected

Written by: Dr. John Brian
Anthony

Federal Government proposed
to have 1 additional Army
Division in Sabah and additional
Brigade strength for Sarawak.
What is the meaning and
implication of this proposal? Is
the Federal Gov’t worried
about the rising sentiment in
Sarawak to get out of
Malaysia? Sarawakian feel than
Kuala Lumpur is colonizing the
State in every sense of the
word.

Sarawak against the British
colony

Just the other day I had
discussion with some friends
who wanted to know whether
Sarawak is serious about getting
out of Malaysia as seen in many
blogs and Face Book discussion.
Frankly, Sarawakian felt colonize
by Malaya today. From History,
Sarawak responded negatively
towards Britain when Sarawak
was a colony that one of
Sarawak son killed the British
Government by plunging a knife
into the gentlemen while
inspecting a parade given in
honour of the Governor’s visit.
The British Governor
subsequently died.

Prior to being made a colony
under British rule many Dayak
War Chiefs fought wars with the
Brookes. Of all the War chiefs,
Rentap was the most famous
for being able to defeat the
Brooke army twice and made his
last stance at Bukit Sadok.

Is Sarawak a colony of Malaya?

If you look at the Federal
Government policies and their
approach towards taking
Sarawak natural resources
wealth and also the way
Sarawak is being develop at
snail pace into the “3rd
poorest state in Malaysia”,
these are evident enough. In the
Federal civil service, Federal
Government make sure that the
top post are held by their people
which is against the
Borneonization of the Civil
Service.

Politically, Sarawak reject UMNO
at all cost so as not to put the
last nail into the Sarawak coffin
of being made a colony of
Malaya.

Taib’s response to Prime
Minister political pressure

In the recent election in April
2012, Taib Mahmud has to
demand that the Governor
swore him to be the next Chief
Minister of Sarawak on the
evening that the State election
result was announced. Taib was
not ready to be replaced as the
chief Minister as demanded by
Najib. Actually, before the
election Taib “commit” to
step down as Chief Minister
after 2 years into the current
term. Will this happen we are
awaiting for the change by end
of 2012 or early 2013.

What was heard was that Taib
threaten to pull Sarawak out of
Malaysia if Federal Government
continue to undermined the
Government and politics within
Sarawak. Subsequently, Najib
left Taib alone and do not say a
word about Taib’s retirement.

Federal Government response

In Sabah, Dr. Jeffery Kitinggan
used the STAR party to agitate
for Sabah rights as agreed
through the 20 points
agreement signed before the
formation of Malaysia. The
document is signed under
United Nation Treaty
supervision.

In Sarawak, the spirit of anti-
Malaya due to its colonizing
approach is rising. Sarawak
today is being colonize in all
aspects, education, commerce,
religion, politics, social structure
and even government through
BN.

Malaya took the wealth of
Sarawak and gave back
“crumps” as development
fund. Malaya take all the
important Ministry, took all the
important post in the civil
service, dismantle Sarawak
Ranger and install Malay
regiment.

Just yesterday, the Army
threaten Sabah Sarawak by
proposing to put in another
Division of Army in Sabah and
Brigade strength in Sarawak.

This army is not to guard the
security of Sarawak / Sabah as
there is no external threat but
more to ensure that the Federal
Government can put down any
of Sarawak intention to leave
Malaysia.

In Sarawak, many of us sleep
through this new development
because as usual we do not
want to pay attention to what
Federal Government is doing to
Sarawak. By the time this event
of a brigade being placed in
Sarawak and the Brigade start
to take action then we find out
that we are being pro-actively
subdued by force in Sarawak.

Conclusion

The Federal Government will not
change its approach in dealing
with Sarawak. The revenue from
oil and gas for that matter
contributed to 40% of
Malaysia’s income and the
main source of corrupt money
for UMNO leaders. The BN
supporters in Sarawak thought
that UMNO really care for
Sarawak. The answer is NO,
Sarawak will continue to be
poor. If the Federal government
response by giving Sarawak
more development fund, then
Taib and his political cronies will
take it to keep.

The people of Sarawak are now
being squeeze between a hard
surface and granite rock. Dayak
poverty is good as a source of
BN support. Sarawak being poor
is reason enough that the
Federal Government think that
they know what is best for
Sarawak and they will continue
not to hand back Sarawak oil
and gas wealth to Sarawak.
In the coming PRU 13, when you
vote for BN you are voting for
continued poverty of Sarawak
and to allow our oil and gas
money to be in the hand of
UMNO / BN.

UBAH meh! Change WE Must.

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