As the eastern tip of Sabah reels from this morning's military assault, residents of the state have started an online petition to say that they want to “remain Malaysians”.
The petition, started yesterday by a group who only want to be identified as Concerned Citizens of Sabah, said that while the state has a “shared history” with its neighbours, “the people of Sabah are not politically beholden to these historical ties”.
“The peace-loving people of Sabah unanimously agree that whatever the result of any injunction or fact-finding mission, we wish to remain Malaysians,” it reads.
“We appeal to the international community to acknowledge the people of Sabah’s right to self-determination; to endorse the state’s constitutional sovereignty of the Malaysian government as valid and the desire of Sabahans to permanently reject the Sultanate of Sulu’s claim on our home.”
The petition, which also rejects any claim on the state by the Philippines, is addressed to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and Philippines president Benigno S Aquino III.
It had already attracted more than 2,000 signatures as at 4.30pm today.
'Why pay rent to sultan?'
It also pressures the Malaysian and Sabah governments to convene an emergency sitting of Parliament and the state assembly to declare the state’s sovereignty and to allow the Malaysian armed forces to defend it.
The federal and state governments are also called to “explain why we are still paying cession money to the Sultanate of Sulu and to clear all doubts that this payment is rent”.
“Even if the Sulu successfully colonise Sabah, we will never obey them. Sabah belongs to us. We will never bow or be loyal to them. Our allegiance is to our country,” Razlene Roslan of Lahad Datu said as a reason for signing the petition.
Others refer to the Sulu claim as as “barbaric” and “hallucinations of a presumably senile old man”.
For BJ of Kota Kinabalu, no documents can support foreign claim on the Malaysian state.
“The Sulu sultanate is obsolete; Sabah is a living and breathing land with its own history and people (who) deserve the right to choose who governs them,” he said.
SIGN PETITION TO SUPPORT
Sabah adalah milik Malaysia yang sah mengikut undang-undang antarabangsa dan tidak boleh dituntut pihak lain termasuk kumpulan pengganas yang mendakwa tentera Sultan Sulu.
ReplyDeleteMenteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan, Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim, berkata hak ke atas Sabah yang dulu dikenali Borneo Utara, diperoleh Syarikat Overback pada 1880-an daripada Kesultanan Sulu.
ReplyDelete“Apabila Overback serahkan hak milik itu kepada Britain dan seterusnya diserahkan kepada Malaysia, maka segala hak mereka lupus mengikut undang-undang antarabangsa. Apa yang dibayar kepada kerabat Sultan Sulu, iaitu kira-kira RM5,000 setahun hanya wang ehsan atau sagu hati.
ReplyDelete“Ia dibayar kepada kerabat yang didaftarkan sebagai pewaris Sultan Sulu yang disahkan Sultan Brunei dulu, bukan pihak yang menceroboh Sabah ketika ini,”
ReplyDeleteSambil meminta Wisma Putra membuat penjelasan mengenai perkara itu secara mendalam, beliau juga menjelaskan, Sabah menyertai Malaysia secara sah berdasarkan keputusan Suruhanjaya Cobbold pada 1963 yang mendapati semua pihak di negeri itu bersetuju.
ReplyDelete“Keputusan suruhanjaya itu menunjukkan rakyat Sabah mahu menyertai Malaysia. Jadi jelas, Sabah sah hak Malaysia dan tidak boleh dituntut mana-mana pihak atau negara lain,”
ReplyDeletepembentukan Suruhanjaya Cobbold pada 17 Januari 1962 bagi memberi kebebasan dan keadilan kepada semua pihak.
ReplyDeleteSuruhanjaya itu dibentuk hasil rundingan di antara Kerajaan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu dan Kerajaan Britain pada November 1961
ReplyDeleteTujuan penubuhan suruhanjaya itu untuk meninjau pandangan penduduk di Borneo Utara (Sabah) dan Sarawak mengenai gagasan Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteHasil laporan suruhanjaya yang disahkan perwakilan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) menunjukkan 80 peratus penduduk Sabah dan Sarawak menyokong penubuhan Malaysia yang kemudian diisytiharkan pada 16 September 1963.
ReplyDeleteadakah Sabah akan dikembalikan kepada kesultanan Sulu andai kata rakyat Sabah inginkan kerajaan baru untuk memimpin mereka? semoga ada penerangan dari kerajaan Sabah BN sebelum PRU13 berlangsung...
ReplyDeleteini adalah untuk mengelakkan salah-faham berlaku di masa hadapan...
ReplyDeletesaya yakin rakyat di sini tidak mahu Sabah dikembalikan semula kepada Kesultanan Sulu ini...bukti jelas ialah, perwira-perwira kita yang sanggup bergadai nyawa demi mempertahankan negeri Sabah yang tercinta ini..
ReplyDeletesemoga jasa mereka yang terkorban semasa menentang penceroboh-penceroboh dari Filipina ini sentiasa dikenang dan disanjung tinggi
ReplyDelete"It also pressures the Malaysian and Sabah governments to convene an emergency sitting of Parliament and the state assembly to declare the state’s sovereignty and to allow the Malaysian armed forces to defend it."
ReplyDeletekedaulatan negeri patut dipertahankan
memang rata-rata rakyat Sabah tidak mahu dipisahkan dari negara Malaysia
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