Malaysia - Polis arrests 9 for calling for Secession of Sabah and Sarawak.

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(Bernama) – Police have recorded the statements of nine individuals, three of them women, regarding the distribution of pamphlets calling for the secession of Sabah and Sarawak from the country in Tuaran last night.

Sabah Police Commissioner Jalauddin Abdul Rahman said besides the statements of the nine suspects aged between 24 and 52, police also took statements from 14 witnesses related to the incident.

“The nine arrests were made under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act. All nine suspects were released on bail yesterday (February 1), at 5pm, after the statements were recorded,” he told Bernama.

According to Jalaluddin, the investigations will also be done under the Printing Presses and Publications Act, and would be completed as soon as possible to be handed over to the Public Prosecutor for further action.

Jalaluddin said the nine suspects were arrested between 9.50am and 10.42am yesterday, after they were believed to be distributing pamphlets in various locations at the Tuaran weekly market.

He said following the arrests, some 113 reading materials of various topics were seized from the suspects to assist investigations.

According to Jalaluddin, among the titles of the reading materials were ‘Questions for Us All as Indigenous People of Sabah and Sarawak’, ‘Peoples Petition to United Nations to Re-open the Issue of Self-Determination for Sabah and Sarawak’, ‘The People of Sabah (North Borneo) & Sarawak Borneo’, ‘Sabah Sarawak March for Independence’, and ‘Call for Sabah and Sarawak’s Rights’.

Other reading materials seized were ‘Agreement Concluded Between The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’, ‘The Federation of Malaya’, ‘North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore’, he said.

 

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East Malaysians blame Lee Kuan Yew for pulling them into Malaysia, and then abandoning them to the Ultras in Kuala Lumpur........

I wonder if LKY still feels bad about letting them down?

 

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(Free Malaysia Today) – Inspector-General of Polis Khalid Abu Bakar today issued a stern warning to those agitating for Sabah’s and Sarawak’s separation from Malaysia, saying it amounted to treason.

“Let me say this to those inciting the people to support the move to take Sabah and Sarawak out of Malaysia: just wait for my action,” he told reporters covering the launch of the police football tournament for 2015.

He said he had given strict directives to Sabah and Sawarak police against tolerating any violation of the Federal Constitution.

“The Royal Malaysian Police will not let it happen,” he said of the separatist moves.

 

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(Free Malaysia Today) – Several volunteers of Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia (SSKM) were reportedly arrested and detained at the Tuaran Police Station moments ago, according to reports which have gone viral in social media, especially WhatsApp and Facebook which has pictures uploaded.

Apparently, they were picked up at the tamu (fair) grounds while handing out petitions for signatures.

There appeared to be some kind of stand-off outside the gates of the police station, according to these reports, “and riot police have been mobilised to block the entrance”.

Sabah Progressive Party President Yong Teck Lee and Tamparuli Assemblyman Wilfred Bumburing, along with SSKM supporters and members of the public, were seen milling outside the gate.

The two leaders apparently wanted to enter the police station to try and intervene on behalf of those detained.

 

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Statement from Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan:


Leaders from Malaya and their Sabah representatives should stop making an excuse of making calls for secession as seditious or against the Constitution to prevent Sabah and Sarawak from leaving the Federation of Malaysia. Instead of following the Umno BN dictatorial regime, a diplomatic and consultative approach would be a better option to persuade Sabahans and Sarawakians to remain in the Federation.

The people in Sabah and Sarawak know for a fact that Sabah and Sarawak were taken for a ride and cheated outright in the formation of Malaysia.

They also know that Malaya needs Sabah and Sarawak more than Sabah and Sarawak need Malaya and without Sabah and Sarawak’s oil wealth, Malaya and Malaysia would go bankrupt well before 2019 given its current national debt of about RM700 billion.

Sabah and Sarawak has nothing or little to gain by remaining in Malaysia with the existing arrangement as the 12th and 13th State of Malaya masquerading as Malaysia.

PM Najib made a huge mistake in announcing at the Umno general assembly last year end that the 1948 colonial Sedition Act will be amended with additions to make it seditious against calls for Sabah and Sarawak to leave Malaysia.

Pakatan leaders should not be following in Najib’s footsteps if they wish to have a realistic chance of taking over Putrajaya in GE-14. They would need the support of Sabah and Sarawak to win control of Putrajaya.

If secession is seditious and or against the Constitution, why was it Singapore was allowed secession in 1965? Shouldn’t the Singapore leaders then be charged for sedition if it was seditious?

Not only did the federal government allowed Singapore to depart. They actually signed the agreement departing with Singapore before the motion to approve the departure was tabled in Parliament on 9th August 1965 without the MPs from Singapore. The federal Parliament was merely asked to endorse and rubber-stamp the departure.

Obviously, they were not charged and Singapore was allowed to go separate ways because as said by Lord Lansdowne, Chairman of the IGC:

“… any State voluntarily entering a federation had an intrinsic right to secede at will, and that it was, therefore, unnecessary to include it in the Constitution.”

Nowhere is it stated in the Federal Constitution that Sabah and Sarawak are not allowed to secede.

Even the British who started the sedition laws know better and the Sedition Act has been abolished in the United Kingdom where sedition is no longer a criminal offence.

If the federal leaders care to listen, Sabah and Sarawak nationalists and activists are not seeking secession but restoration of the legitimate rights, privileges and autonomy of the Borneo States that were taken away or eroded since 1963. Of course, there was a basis that led to the formation of Malaysia and if that basis is not honoured, one of the lawful and legal recourse would be a de-merger or dissolution. In such an event, it is not secession.

If the federal leaders wish to have Sabah and Sarawak remain in Malaysia, a soft and diplomatic approach would probably be more successful. Even the Attorney General had advised on this recourse.

However, if the federal government thinks otherwise and were to charge any Sabah/Sarawak nationalist for sedition, it would be their gravest mistake.

It will be a golden opportunity to open the flood gates to the international community of the dark secrets and the wrong-doings against Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia. It will also mark the beginning of the end and break-up of the Malaysian federation.

Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan

Chairman, STAR Sabah

 

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Sabah and Sarawak even have different flags from Peninsula Malaysia.

Peninsula Malaysia

Sabah

Sarawak

 

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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1553163638269985&set=a.1381488375437513.1073741829.100007290909160&type=1&theater

Even Machik with Umbrella dare to confront Malaysian Police

 

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The Sabah state flag is being held up by a Sabahan in front of the Tuaran police station where volunteer members of SSKM(Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia) are being detained. The crowd outside the police station demand the immediate release of the SSKM members being detained.

 

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https://www.facebook.com/walkin.joy.39?fref=nf

Their facebook page....... this time it looks serious.......

 

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It is a matter of time before the two states will break from Malaysia.