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Big words, Mr Zahid! Big words from the mouth of a little Malayan politician!
Come to think of it, is Mr Zahid threatening to invade Sulu with Kuala Lumpur's troops? His big words about the "strength of Malaysian security forces" is almost a declaration that he would and that he could if you read between the lines!
To be perfectly honest, if there is anyone in the Republic who should feel threatened, it is President Aquino; sadly we don't think Mr Aquino cares or if he does, he is tetanised by fear!
Which, incidentally, we must remind our great and benighted leader, President NoyNoy, that if he looks at things in Mindanao purely from a tactical perspective, he will realise that will not be a difficult task for Zahid to order his already stationed troops in Mindanao and his new pro-Malaya recruits, the MILF, to sow havoc in Mindanao and to kidnap or kill would-be Filipino Tausug officcers and warriors bound for Sabah in Mindanao itself. But that is Mr Zahid's -- and Mr Aquino's, problem and not ours.
(Just so everyone knows, we have consistently warned President NoyNoy that his allowing Kuala Lumpur troops to be stationed in Mindanao is giving Kuala Lumpur military the incredible right to establish a military beachhead in Mindanao. We guess that he did that to please his Daddy and his Mommy.)
In any case, the good but excitable Malaysia Defence Minister Zahid is out of his mind. Before anything else, we don't believe for one nano second that this grandstanding by Mr Zahid will make Nur Misuari cower in fear. Secondly, Zahid must put it in his tiny brain that not once did Nur Misuari threaten to invade Peninsular Malaysia of which Kuala Lumpur is capital, therefore there is no threat whatsoever against 'Malaysia.'
If Zahid thinks that he could bamboozle Nur Misuari, who has been imprisoned left, right and center by both the governments of Kuala Lumpur and Imperial Manila over the last few decades, into submission by stupid warnings, then he must go see a doctor for prescription pills to ease his nerves.
On Zahid's implying that Sabah is part of Kuala Lumpur's sovereignty, Mr Zahid is propagating Kuala Lumpur's tradition for distorting historical, legal and moral facts! Before he goes on one of his wild goose chases again, we advise him to read and re-read history so that he can be apprised of the very basic fact that Sabah was illegaly annexed to the Malaya Federation by the British colonial lords of Sabah after British finally let go of their colonial throttle over the land whose proprietary rights belong to the Sultanate of Sulu. Which, by any stretch of his wild imagination, does not mean Kuala Lumpur has suddenly become sovereign rights holders of Sabah.
Surely, Mr Zahid is aware that the illegal annexation was brought about when the lessees, Messrs Overbeck and Dent's British North Borneo Company, transferred its lease to the British Crown in 1946 something which violated a key provision in the contract of lease. The ensuing British Crown colonisation of Sabah did not give Kuala Lumpur the right to annex it - in fact, Kuala Lumpur had absolutely nothing to do with Sabah until the creation of the Malaysia Federation which sought to annex despite protestations from the Republic of the Philippines which had establised de jure sovereignty rights over it by virtue of the transfer made by the sultanate in 1962.
Furthermore, Mr Zahid must remember that there exists a 1963 Manila Accord which was co-signed no less than by one of the fathers of his own country, Malaya Federation's Tunku Abdul Rahman, of which Provision 12 clearly stipulates that the creation of the 1963 Malaysia Federation does not extinguish the Philippine sovereignty rights claim to Sabah.
In fine, it would do well for Mr Zahid to stop all his nonsense declaration that Nur Misuari has threatened his country's sovereignty. The boundaries of his country, Malaya Federation or Peninsular Malaysia today, do not extend to Sabah. His troops are illegaly fermenting chaos in Sabah. Nur Misuari, like any Tausug, like any warrior, like any man worthy to be called a man, like any Filipino patriot, has all the right to fight for Sabah and to kill -- if necessary -- its enemies of whom Malaysian troops on orders of Mr Zahid's Kuala Lumpur government are part.
For the umpteenth time, we repeat, Sabah's sovereignty rights do not belong to Malaya Federation-Peninsular Malaysia. No amount of threats or warnings in public by Zahid could change this one inalienable fact!
~~ By the Defenders of Philippine Sovereignty
for the Philippine Sabah Claim Forum
10 April 2013
Defence Minister Zahid has strong words for Misuari, warning him not to threaten the sovereignty of MalaysiaApril, 10, 2013 - 12:59 pmThe Borneo Insider
JOLO, Sulu: In a camp set up by the Moro National Liberation Front in this part of southern Philippines, recruits are being trained by veteran combat fighters “to rescue” thousands of Filipinos allegedly being abused by Malaysian security forces in Sabah.
MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari gave News5 an exclusive peek into the on-going training for members of “Operation Rescue”" as he claimed they were ready to “sustain a war for a hundred years” if necessary.
Misuari, founder of the original Moro insurgent force in the 1960s, claimed 1,000 of their men have already snuck into Sabah where a stand-off began February 12 between Malaysian forces and followers of the Sulu sultanate out to “reclaim” ancient territory.Misuari stressed that their troops are not allied with the Royal Sultanate Army but have as their main mission the “rescue” of Filipinos allegedly being “abused” by Malaysia. The report was carried by online portal InterAksyon.net.
Misuari claims recruits are being trained by veteran combat fighters “to rescue” thousands of FilipinosOver 60 Filipinos have died in the standoff, and thousands others are feared caught in the crackdown.Separate from Misuari’s statements, members of the self-styled “Royal Security Force of the Sulu Sultanate” who remain holed up in Lahad Datu, Sabah, claim to have received additional reinforcements from sympathizers in the Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi areas.
Abraham Idjirani, sultanate spokesman and secretary general, claimed in a phone interview that as of Tuesday, Raja Muda Agbimuddin Kiram and his Royal Security Force are 400-strong, after dwindling to just over 160 in the face of heavy Malaysian assault.
Idjirani said more Filipinos went to Sabah on March 29 and April 5 on board boats, able to slip past the naval blockade set up by both the Philippines and Malaysia. He said “70 to 80 per cent” of those who went there were reportedly armed. He said these Filipinos went there on their own due to “accumulated anger” after their loved ones in Sabah were either allegedly killed or harassed by Malaysians.
Idjirani’s claims could not be independently verified, and Philippine military officials have said that naval forces are in place to block any such attempts to reinforce the sultanate’s followers in Sabah.At the MNLF camp, trainees were being instructed on the use of machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Sulu Gov. Abdulsakur Tan cautioned Misuari against any rash actions, while a military spokesman warned that the supposed rescue plans, if carried out, would go against Philippine policies on the Sabah standoff.
In SANDAKAN, Defence Minister Dato’ Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had strong words for Misuari, warning him not to threaten the sovereignty of Malaysia.He said Misuari and his so-called MNLF fighters should not try and test the patience and strength of Malaysian security forces which included the army, police and Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency.
“We are ready from any external threat,” Zahid told reporters after visiting the Sandakan Prisons Department Tuesday.Zahid said Misuari had long been rejected and abandoned by his own people.
“Misuari should ask himself if he is still accepted by the Bangsamoro and if the Philippines recognise him anymore. (The Nur) Misuari era is long gone,” said Zahid.
According to Zahid it was Malaysia’s intention to find peace in the region as it was the responsibility of neighbours to ensure good relations with one another.
