PETALING JAYA: The descendants of the Sulu sultanate have condemned Sultan Jamalul Kiram III for instigating violence in Sabah.
Mudarasulail Kiram, who is the son of the late Sultan Mahakuttah Kiram, and fellow claimant to the Sulu throne Sultan Bantilan Muhammad Muizzuddin II condemned Jamalul for putting the lives of the Tausug people in danger because of his selfish agenda.
The Malaysian news agency Bernama on Thursday reported them as calling on their countrymen to immediately retreat from Sabah and stop following the orders of Jamalul, as he was not the real sultan of Sulu.
It is wrong and un-Islamic to terrorize Sabah, especially as Malaysia has never oppressed the Tausug community, Mudarasulail said.
“Our target should be the Philippine government, which has oppressed us for so long,” he added.
Stressing that Sabah rightfully belonged to Malaysia, Mudarasulail said the Tausug community in the eastern Malaysian state risk being victimized because of Jamalul’s actions.
He also called on the sultan, who is living in Manila, to stop using the name Jamalul, as people like him who perpetrate violence should not use the sacred names of former sultans.
He said Jamalul had proclaimed himself sultan despite not being the biological grandson of Sultan Mawalil Wasit (who was the designated Sulu sultan after Sultan Jamalul Kiram II died in 1936 without any direct heirs).
Muizzudin sent representatives to meet Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and discuss ways to resolve the conflict in Sabah.
“Sultan Bantilan condemned the acts of violence,” Ahmad said, adding that the representatives met him in Kuala Lumpur on Monday night.
Sabahans have also rallied to sign an online petition that rejects Jamalul’s claim to Sabah.
Written by five youths on March 2 and uploaded to change.org, the petition has received 2,908 signatures as of noon on Wednesday.
The petition by the Concerned Citizens of Sabah states: “The peace-loving people of Sabah unanimously agree that whatever the result of any injunction or fact-finding mission, we wish to remain Malaysians.
“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 will be forwarded to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and President Aquino.
The petition acknowledged the shared history between Sabah and the Philippines but “respectfully and permanently reject” the sultanate’s claims, which the group deemed as “irrelevant to modern-day Sabah.”
Signing the petition, Nur Azila Awang Sarin from Kota Kinabalu said, “Sabah belongs to Malaysia.”
Adam Chin said the Lahad Datu conflict was “doomed to fail,” adding that Sabahans had become one with Malaysians in Sarawak and the peninsula.
The self-styled Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III has declared himself as the “poorest” Ruler in the world, saying that he had consented to his brother leading a group of armed followers to move to Sabah in search of work and a better life.
ReplyDelete“I’m the poorest sultan in the world,” Jamalul told newswire Associated Press (AP) when interviewed in his tumble-down two-storey residence in a poor section of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.
ReplyDeleteZaman bukan untuk Kesultanan Sulu lagi.
DeleteThe 74-year-old, who is one of nine claimants to the Sulu Sultanate, reportedly said that his sultanate’s lack of power to help his followers had sparked off their move into Sabah’s east coast over three weeks ago in what is seen as an intrusion by Malaysia and has resulted in deadly clashes with 52 Sulu militants and eight Malaysian policemen dead.
ReplyDeleteHis wife Fatima Celia said that Jamalul’s family is now in debt due to the costly expenses incurred when he campaigned to be a senator in 2007. He was supported by former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo but did not win the position.
ReplyDeleteJamalul was last year found to have kidney failure and had to go for dialysis, another costly burden which then caused his family to miss monthly payments for their house and almost had to give up the place if their friends had not assisted, Jamalul's wife reportedly said.
ReplyDeleteJamalul, who also has a heart condition, now spends most of his time in his bedroom — where there are two oxygen tanks — which also doubles up as an office.
ReplyDeleteThe Philippine Star reported that the Kiram clan had not intended to reclaim Sabah but wanted more money than the current RM5,300 in annual stipend paid to the Sulu Sultanate, arguing that the sum was not “even enough to pay rental for an apartment” in Manila.
ReplyDeleteThe news portal quoted Acting Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Mujiv Hataman, saying the message was relayed by “Princess” Jacel, the oldest daughter of Jamalul, in one of the backroom negotiations between the clan and Manila for a peaceful solution to the Lahad Datu standoff.
ReplyDeleteThe honorarium and ownership over the state was reported to be among the three issues raised by the sultanate with the Aquino administration before the Sabah standoff. The annual payment to the Kirams is distributed to all members of the family.
ReplyDeleteMANUSIA yang menggelar dirinya sultan sulu dan telah membunuh orang kita seharusnya sedar diri dan jangan berlagak mahu tunjuk taring
ReplyDeleteKekejaman ini amat keji dan harus dikenakan tindakan.
DeleteKiram III haruslah mengerti dan jangan anggap orang Sabah ini bodoh sangat seolah bisa dibuli dan dibunuh sesuka hati.
ReplyDeletePembunuhan yang sebenarnya tidak perlu berlaku. Ini disebabkan pihak yang mementingkan diri.
DeleteKiram III harus tahu dan faham atau cuba-cuba tidak faham bahawa Sultan Jamalul Kiram II yang mangkat pada Tahun 1936 sebenarnya tidak mempunyai Putera/itu sudah saya katakan berulang kali, lalu bagaimana kiram III ini menganggap dirinya sebagai sultan? Siapa yang mengiktirafnya?
ReplyDeleteKiram III harus akui bahawa selepas kemangkatan Kiram II Kerajaan Amerika Syarikatlah yang memerintah Filipina pada ketika itu tidak mengiktiraf sesiapapun waris Baginda diangkat untuk menjadi Pengganti Sultan, malah pada Tahun 1939 Kerajaan Filipina di bawah Kepimpinan Presiden Manuel L. Quezon telah bertindak untuk tidak lagi mengiktiraf kuasa dan entiti KeSultanan Sulu dibawah Sistem Pemerintahan Negara Filipina.
ReplyDeleteKePulauan Sulu dan Mindanao sesudah itu adalah merupakan sebahagian daripada Wilayah Negara Filipina, maka Entiti KeSultanan Sulu telah tidak terpakai lagi dengan sendirinya, terutama selepas perang dunia kedua kala Kerajaan Filipina telah mengistiharkan Negara tersebut sebagai Sebuah Negara republik makna tidak bersultan dan secara tidak langsung sistem sultan di Filifina terhapus.
ReplyDeleteKesan sultan tidak laku lagi di Manila, maka kerajaan Manila tidak sekongkol soal pencerobohan di Sabah baru-baru ini dan siap memberikan kerjasama kepada kerajaan Malaysia, lagipun PBB telah merestu Sabah merdeka atas nama Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteJadi sekarang ini semua harus faham bahawa kalau ada yang menganggap dirinya sebagai sultan, itu bermakna sultan palsu dan kemudian kalau dia mengarah pembunuh makna dia adalah pengganas dan sekarang bolehlah dikatakan Kiram III adalah kepala pengganas dan kalau mereka terus mengganas, kita semua rakyat sabah wajib menghabiskannya menolak mereka membunuh saudara2 kita di Sabah.
ReplyDeleteMempertahankan negara dari sebarang pencerobohan bermakna kewajiban kita sebagai orang Islam dan kalau ikut mengkhianati maka hukum islam ialah pancung.
ReplyDeletePencerbohan semata-mata untuk mempertahankan kesultanannya, tindakan ini amat menyesalkan.
ReplyDeleteKenapa pula sehingga kini tindakan ini diambil? Apakah tujuan disebaliknya?
ReplyDeleteKeluarga Kiram dari jalur Kesultanan Sulu ini sebenarnya bermula dari saat pemerintahan Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Kiram I (1832-1842) bin Sultan Muhammad Alimuddin III (1808).
ReplyDeleteDari Jamalul Kiram I inilah bermulanya nama Kiram yang kita kenal hari ini, yang kemudian nama ini berakhir selepas kewafatan Sultan Jamalul Kiram II (1884-1936) yang mangkat tanpa zuriat ketika zaman kedatangan Amerika Syarikat ke Sulu.
ReplyDeleteSelepas itu tiada lagi Sultan Sulu yang diterima oleh rakyat Tausug disebabkan dominasi Amerika Syarikat itu.
Hal ini dilihat oleh rakyat bahawa Sultan dari keluarga Kiram adalah tali barut Amerika Syarikat yang tergamak merestui pembunuhan para keluarga Datu dan Syarif Tausug di Bud Dahu, Mac 1906 dan Disember 1911 serta pertempuran di Bud Bagsak, Jun 1913.
ReplyDeleteSultan Kiram II yang terakhir itu terpaksa memberikan restu kepada Amerika Syarikat membunuh muslimin rakyatnya sendiri berjumlah labih 4,000 orang (yang syahid 1,600 orang termasuk wanita dan kanak-kanak) yang memilih menentang USA dan arahan Sultan.
Tausug menentang Sultan kerana bersekongkol dengan USA yang terkeluar dari undang-undang Darul Islam yang mana Tausug enggan dikutip cukai kepala oleh USA.
ReplyDeleteMenurut Tausug, Allah s.w.t tidak pernah berfirman kepada RasulNya untuk mengutip cukai kepala kepada ummah. Maka Tausug beramai-ramai naik ke gunung duduk di gua batu sebagai mana ASHABUL KAHFI.
Hal ini bagi mereka adalah fitnah besar yang mengancam akidah mereka maka wajib meninggalkan kemewahan kampung halaman menuju ke gunung untuk selamat dari fitnah itu. Sebaliknya mereka dibunuh oleh Amerika atas restu Sultan KIRAM.
ReplyDeleteKeluarga Kiram sebenarnya sangat ramai. Ada keluarga dari sebelah Puteri Piyandao bin Sultan Badaruddin I, ada Kiram dari jalur keluarga Sultan Esmail I (ini yang serahkan Sulu kepada Filipina pada tahun 1962) bin Rajamuda Mawallilwasit.
ReplyDeleteMalah ada juga Kiram dari Datu Punjungan bin Rajamuda Mawallilwasit (ayahanda Jamalul Kiram III), dan banyak lagi kiram yang sekarang sedang merancang untuk menjadi Sultan kesemuanya.
ReplyDeleteKalau ada 1,000 lelaki kiram hari ini, maka Sulu akan ada 1,000 sultan yang mengaku Sultan Sulu dari keluarga Kiram. Berebut menjadi Sultan tanpa rakyat, masuk bakul angkat sendiri. Tanpa pengetahuan sejarah protokol kesultanan, tanpa mengetahui tertib pertabalan, tanpa mengetahui adat para Datu dan Syarif Tausug. Jadilah seperti Kiram yang kita lihat hari ini.
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