Independent senatorial bets believe PH has valid claim over Sabah
British, pada 9 Julai 1963 menandatangani perjanjian dengan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu untuk menyerahkan Borneo Utara, Sarawak serta Singapura untuk menyertai Malaysia, selepas Suruhanjaya Cobbold mendapati penduduk di kawasan tersebut mahu menyertai Malaysia, yang kemudiannya dibentuk pada 16 September 1963.
ICJ telah memutuskan keputusan berhubung tuntutan Sabah, namun, rakyat Filipina masih lagi 'terasa hati' dengan keputusan tersebut.
Keturunan serpihan Kiram beranggapan bahawa 'tanah nenek moyang' yang telah mencapai Kemerdekaan dibawah Malaysia, akan diserahkan kepada mereka setelah 'Keturunan' ini melarikan diri ke Kepulauan Filipina. Disebabkan kemakmuran' yang dinikmati oleh rakyat keturunan Sulu di Sabah membuatkan mereka 'isi hati' dan cemburu . Kalau dahulu keturunan mereka hanya berbasikal dan tinggal dirumah usang di Sabah tetapi kini saudara mereka telah mempunyai kereta, rumah besar serta penghidupan yang lebih baik dan terjamin dibawah Kerajaan Malaysia. Ditambah anak cucu mereka ini telah menjejaki kaki di menara gading dan mempunyai perkerjaan yang baik serta berkedudukan tinggi didalam masyarakat berbanding dengan keturunan mereka yang masih lagi terkial-kial di Filipina yang berbantalkan 'bag galas' serta berpelukan dengan 'senjata api'. Kesenangan inilah yang dicemburui oleh keturunan Kiram Sulu di Filipina yang mula merasai 'keturunan' mereka semakin terpinggir dari kemajuan dunia mahupun akhirat.
Bersandarkan kepada 'cerita lama' yang diputarkan maka , ketetapan untuk 'menjolok' sarang tabuan dimulakan, itulah akibatnya. Sebulan dua ini mungkin kesannya tidak akan nampak tetapi untuk jangka masa yang panjang keseluruhan nasib orang Islam di kepulauan selatan Filipina akan menerima tempiasnya. Untuk minggu pertama ini kenaikan harga barang keperluan harian naik mendadak, beras, minyak masak, gula serta keperluan lain sudah mula sukar untuk didapati. Pembelian atau penyeludupan barangan keperluan dari Sabah sudah mula sukar disalurkan. Inilah harga yang perlu ditanggung oleh masyarakat yang ramai apabila segelintir manusia yang mengaku 'eletis' atau ' ketua' salah perancangan dan mengikut kata 'syaitan' yang menjanjikan 'keindahan ' yang bertunjangkan kepada 'nafsu'.
Ikhlas dari : Cahaya Al Majid
Penson added that “a lot of Filipinos believe that Sabah is ours.”
By John Rizle Saligumba
Davao Today
14 March 2013
Davao City – Senatorial candidates believe that the Philippines have a claim over Sabah and that the Aquino government is not correctly addressing the problem.
In a forum hosted by the Ateneo de Davao University, law professor and Social Justice Society (SJS) senatorial candidate Samson Alcantara said “(t)he Sabah problem has been there for a long time. These are valid claims.”
Alcantara, who claimed that he was with a law firm that handled the claims of the Kiram family, said: “Can you believe this? The President of the Philippines, scolding our brothers and sisters in Sabah and saying that they should go back here, (but also saying that) we will charge you with a criminal offense. How will they then come back? For example, if they will be filed cases of illegal possession of firearms or rebellion which are not bailable?”
He said that the government must be more “sympathetic” so as not to “strengthen the will” of Malaysia who is now “abusing our brothers and sisters.”
“We have to insist on a plan to pursue these claims,” Alcantara said while reminding the president to abide by his oath of office “to do justice for everybody.”
Meanwhile, Makabayan Senatorial bet Teodoro Casiño said that its time for the government to stop neglecting the issue of Sabah or “slipping it under the rag.”
“With the developments recently, and even before that, the cruelty, the bad treatment to the Filipinos in Sabah, shows that there is a problem that has to be addressed,” said Casiño.
He added that “the first thing the government should not do is to call them outlaws, or criminals or terrorists because these are our brother Muslims and they consider Sabah their home.”
The progressive lawmaker also noted that the distance between Tawi-Tawi and Sabah is only an hour boat ride and that it is being used by people everyday.
“The government must care about those who care to assert our claim,” said Casiño.
He added that the president should go down from his “ivory tower” and talk to Sultan Kiram and his followers.
“It will not demean that presidency for there is nothing wrong and there is everything to gain from dialogue and talking. But what is happening now is that the government is siding with Malaysia,” Casiño said.
Independent Senatorial candidate Ramon Montaño, a soldier who was assigned in Sulu in 1961, said there was no Malaysia (claiming Sabah) back then.
“In 1961, there are already 300, 000 Tausugs in Malaysia, including Chinese traders from Sulu. There was no peninsular Malaysian then,” he said.
He noted that the first prime minister of Sabah was in fact a Tausug from Jolo.
“The reaction of the government is terrible, it did not denounce Malaysia for aggression, (for the) violation of human rights by using its fighter planes, napalm bombs against the ragtag army of the sultan,” he said.
Another senatorial candidate, Christian Señeres said “This is what we believe: the lease entered into by the sultan and the British company at that time, will expire this March 2013, that’s why this is happening. Starting this April, Sabah is legally a part of the Philippines,” Señeres said.
If he was the president, Senares said his action would be simpIe: “I would not ask them to surrender. I would have told the Malaysian that we are only asserting our sovereignty.”
Senatorial candidate and businessman Ricardo Penson slammed the Aquino government’s move.
“A lot of Filipinos are ready to fight for it because we cannot just give up sovereignty. We cannot just give up territory because we have a weak presidency,” Penson said.
Like in the controversy involving the lost letters of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III to the President, Penson also claims that his group also wrote thrice to the President.
“In September we wrote to the President to ask him for 3 things: 1) all negotiations between the MILF should be transparent; 2) there should be no negotiation in Malaysia because we have a standing claim in Sabah; 3) The MNLF which have signed an agreement with the government be at least given an observer status,” he enumerated.
Penson said, “None of the three was taken up by the President. In fact, he said he never got the letter. This is the 3rd letter we’ve sent him that he claims to have never received.”
Penson added that “a lot of Filipinos believe that Sabah is ours.” (John Rizle Saligumba/davaotoday.com)
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