IN PICTURE: Sultan of Sulu, Sultan Jamalul Kiram II (picture taken around 1936).
And their intra-family bickering must not affect whatever the Republic's position is on its claim to Sabah which, by law -- by virtue of Republic Act 5446, is Philippine territory.
The nine royal heirs must be allowed to decide among thelselves who their sultan is... we, the non-sultanate member citizens of the Republic, must leave them alone to sort out their own family problem.
Government must therefore abstain from putting more fat in the already confusing problem by remarking "We don't even know who the legitimate sultan is!" Government must step back and avoid such confusing remarks because the principle of Government support for their struggle must be for the Sultanate of Sulu as a body.
Unless government and the public come to terms with the principle that there are nine legal heirs representing the Sultanate of Sulu, Government itself will be defeating the Republic's own legal cause.
Government must not cofuse the people of this country and instead must revert to the Philippine law and use it to Government's advantage in trying to resolve the Sabah crisis which has now claimed several dozens dead in the hands of a foreign government's maniacal troops.
~~ Philippine Sabah Claim Forum
08 March 2013
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