According to the UN Nation Cobbold Commission only 30% of the people in Sarawak and Sabah supported ” Malaysia then “. Why did Sarawak and Sabah joined Malaysia then and over the years , being colonized by Kuala Lumpur .
One would have thought that after 47 years this in a done deal and there are not an issue . All this time Malaysia has been ruled by UMNO . UMNO policies and practices have created a lot of resentment among the people of Sarawak and Sabah . Will the Federation of Malaysia become an election issue in the coming State Election in Sarawak and for Malaysia in the months to come ?
Today we will quote from a report on “ a closed door forum, ‘Formation of Malaysia, a Promise Revisited and the Way Forward’, in Kota Kinabalu over the weekend.
The forum was organised by the Borneo Heritage Foundation (BHF) in association with the Common Interest Group Malaysia (CigMa), an ad hoc apolitical movement dedicated to “reversing the recolonisation of Sabah and Sarawak”
Read the article in full below :
Copied from Malaysiakini.com
written by Joe Fernandez
Aug 3, 10
2:22pm
Nearly 47 years after the formation of Malaysia, former Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) vice-chairperson Simon Sipaun is convinced more than ever that he was right to have opposed, from the very beginning, the idea of Sabah being in the new federation.
“Even if joining Malaysia was the right thing to do, it came at least ten years too early for us,” Sipaun told 500-odd participants at a closed door forum, ‘Formation of Malaysia, a Promise Revisited and the Way Forward’, in Kota Kinabalu over the weekend.
The forum was organised by the Borneo Heritage Foundation (BHF) in association with the Common Interest Group Malaysia (CigMa), an ad hoc apolitical movement dedicated to “reversing the recolonisation of Sabah and Sarawak”.
Sipaun felt, back in 1962 as now, that the British should have stayed on for another ten years at least. Alternatively, Sabah should have been independent first for a similar period of time before considering, if at all, Malaysia as an option.
He recalled his fervent opposition.
He was 25 years old at that time but didn’t hesitate to make his views known to Donald Stephens, the
Huguansiou (paramount chief) of the KadazanDusunMurut.