Year 2013 will be remembered as the Aquino Govt's anti-Filipino and anti-Philippine sovereignty year

And the latest shocker: The incompetence and the corruption continue! Mr Aquino and his agents played and are playing partisan politics as Tacloban and the rest of the Visayas 'burned' and continue to burn in the post Yolanda-Haiyan catastrophe.

By Anne de Bretagne
12 December 2013
for the Philippine Sabah Claim Forum

On the Philippine front: Year 2013 has been for me a most disappointing year.

Firstly, because whatever one says, Mr Aquino and many in his Govt of merry men gave up Panatag Shoal without batting an eyelash. The Philippine Navy until the reign of Mr Aquino had always fought to keep Panatag Shoal despite their meagre assets. In the 90s, the PN did not allow poachers in it and kept intruders in check. Today, we can say goodbye to Panatag Shoal. Yes, the Philippines has raised the issue to the United Nations but I am under no illusion that even if the UN verdict is in our favour, Panatag will not be returned to PH. Let's face it: China has succeeded in stationing themselves right in our EEZ and there's nothing much we can do about it because the man who is supposed to lead this country does not possess the moral courage and the mental acumen to lead and do something about it.

Secondly, the Sabah stand off showed the true colours of the President of the Republic by overtly siding with Prime Minister Najib and the Malaysian murderers of Tausugs who had gone to Sabah to stake their claim. Mr Aquino, in his bid to honour the memory of his father and his so-called promise to the Malaysians, wittingly left out the Tausugs in his hurry to form the Malaysia-engineered Bangsamoro with the MILF rebels.

Thirdly: Filipinos then discovered the massive corruption industry that's been keeping Philippine politics alive and thriving which is also known as the Pork Barrel Corruption industry! The industry is still thriving last time I read the news but just renamed: DAP.

Fourthly: And while PH was still reeling from the incredibly corrupt Pork Barrel Corruption industry shock, Filipinos began killing each other in the South. The President led the charge in killing Filipinos. I am convinced that the Zamboanga "stand-off" was an offshoot of this Govt's pro-Malaysia stand that saw the unecessary killings of our own.

And the latest shocker: The incompetence and the corruption continue! Mr Aquino and his agents played and are playing politics as Tacloban and the rest of the Visayas 'burned' and continue to burn in the post Yolanda-Haiyan catastrophe.

These are the major issues that haunt Year 2013 for me. Understandably, there are hundreds more of sub-issues but to list them down is just depressing so I prefer to limit the list to the above five. However, the year is not over and there remains a big question: Will there be any more anti-Filipino and anti-Ph sovereignty events or issues in store from the Aquino Govt for 2013?

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Kick out Malaysia troops from Mindanao! Kick out Malaysia from so-called peace talks with the MILF

We have always said that we should not allow Malaysia to engineer peace talks. 

We don't have anything against wealth sharing with members of our country, individuals or groups but we take issue with the presence of Kuala Lumpur. We don't want Kuala Lumpur's people in Mindanao. We don't want their troops in Mindanao. And this entire GPH-MILF so-called peace framework agreement has sidelined groups in Mindanao notably the MNLF and the Sultanate of Sulu whose sons and daughters are languishing in jail and possibly will face the death penalty in Kuala Lumpur government prisons over the Tanduo, Sabah siege in February. 

Why did they do that? Why did President Aquino approve such Malaysia-engineered arrangement? Because we figure it is his way of annihilating the Philippine claim to Sabah. He is not a true patriot. We must be extremely careful that we are not actually "selling" off a piece of Mindanao to appease Malaysia through Kuala Lumpur-funded rebels MILF.

Kick out Malaysia troops from Mindanao! 


It smacks of great stupidity to allow Kuala Lumpur to engineer this so-called peace talks. President Aquino, ever the appeaser himself said that he has a personal debt of gratitude to Malaysia. What debt of gratitude? His father's debt of gratitude to the Malaysians, to Mahathir via the Sultan of Johor, is not the nation's debt. President Aquino's sister, Kris Aquino, who, by the way, has been cavorting with the Sultan of Johor if we believe her own show, could very well pay for that debt personally and there's no need to involve the nation's national integrity in that Aquino debt of gratitude.

It smacks of common sense that you do not allow one with whom you have an outstanding territorial dispute to engineer an important peace initiative with your country's secessionist rebels. And we have an outstanding territorial dispute over Sabah with Kuala Lumpur. 

Doesn't the Aquino Administration know that Malaysia, the engineers of the so-called peace framework, has been funding rebels against this govt for the last 40 years? Kuala Lumpur has been funding the MILF to sow terror in Muslim Mindanao. Kuala Lumpur has been able to stage manage this rebellion and then convinced the Philippine government to accept Malaysia boots in Mindanao. How stupid and idiotic can one get!

Malaysia has not even deigned honor the Manila Accord, a United Nations treaty no less, which was signed 50 years ago and you trust them not to be in cahoots with the MILF to push the 13 provinces to ultimately secede from the Philippines? 

Once more with feeling: You cannot and must not trust the MILF. They do not speak for all the Muslims in Mindanao. They do not represent the great Bangsamoro. There are at the very least 5 rebel factions in Mindanao among which is the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the enemies of the MILF, on top of which you have the Sultanate of Sulu which has been sidelined by this inept Aquino Administration.

The MILF has been funded by Kuala Lumpur since the early 70s to wage war against the Republic of the Philippines. They are the permanent boots of Kuala Lumpur in Mindanao. Wake up. Open your eyes. 

A Malaysia-engineered so-called peace framework cannot bring the ultimate peace that you desire.

Start all over again! Kick out Malaysia from "peace talks" and kick out "Malaysia troops" from Mindanao. Select another country to chair peace talks and assemble, include all the rebel groups in Mindanao in the drafting of a peace agreement. To achieve a minimum of just and lasting peace, the process must be inclusive otherwise pockets of war will be inevitable.

~~ By HM Sultana Matt Salleh
for the Philippine Sabah Claim Forum
15 July 2013

'If we don't pursue our claim to Sabah, we may be doing violence to our Constitution' ~ Ambassador Lauro Baja

The article "Don't play into Malaysia's hands" was written at the height of the Sabah stand-off by former Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Lauro Baja. It is a brief analysis of the Tanduo siege which President Aquino termed a "hopeless cause."

Ambassador Baja warned,"If we do not pursue, we may do violence to our own Constitution, to House Resolution No. 321 adopted on April 24, 1962 and to the Supreme Court decision upholding the validity of RA 5522 and declaring that the PH has title and dominion over Sabah."

FULL ARTICLE: 

‘Don’t play into Malaysia’s hand’
February 27, 2013
By LAURO L. BAJA JR.

THE President has gone on TV appealing and at the same time chastising the Sultan of Sulu over the standoff in Lahad Datu in Sabah.

The next few days will tell the wisdom of doing it in public. His statements and actions give the unintended consequence of leaning on our own nationals over a foreign power. We may be playing into Malaysia’s hands who has been adopting a studied but cavalier attitude over the standoff. They are exercising acts of “effectivités” over Sabah during this standoff by their actions and even by their silence over our naive pronouncements.

“Effectivités” in a territorial dispute between countries gives weight to actual and continued exercise of authority over a territory. This is the basis of the International Court of Justice ’s 2002 decision on the Ligatan Sipadan case where the court awarded the area to Malaysia over Indonesia. Also the same principle in the case between Chile and Peru and between Nicaragua and Guatemala.

The Sabah standoff should rouse the Philippine Rip van Winkle attitude towards our claim to the area. It provides the country with a unique but sensitive opportunity to revisit our claim. If the Philippines can deal with the situation with some diplomatic imagination and finesse it can correct some missteps of the past which led to the current state of helplessness insofar as the issue is concerned.

Those missteps include the abortive “peopling” of Sabah by Filipinos under the Marcos administration which resulted in the Jabidah mnassacre. Also advocating and/or agreeing to a United Nations referendum in Sabah in 1963 without adequate strategic preparations which resulted in adverse outcome for the Philippines.

The solid legal foundation of our claim still exists.

In the transfer of sovereignty document which the Sultan of Sulu signed with the Philippine government, it was expressly provided that the transfer shall be deemed voided if the Philippines shall fail to pursue the claim. The sultan understandably feels he is now free to pursue the claim himself.

The President should find an opportunity to convene the National Security Council to consider the matter. The ramifications of the standoff have far reaching consequences and both the legislative and judicial branches of the government have pronounced themselves on the issue.

As days pass, the confluence of events makes it imperative that the Philippines now define its policy on Sabah. To continue putting the claim in the backburner is not a policy. This is an illusion, a mirage.

Will it be in the national interest to pursue the claim to Sabah? Strong legal grounds still exist although eroded by our statements and actions and inactions. If we do not pursue, then we lay to waste previous international efforts in the UN, in the London and Bangkok talks, in the ICJ, in the Manila Accord of 1963.

If we do not pursue, we may do violence to our own Constitution, to House Resolution No. 321 adopted on April 24, 1962 and to the Supreme Court decision upholding the validity of RA 5522 and declaring that the PH has title and dominion over Sabah.

To study (again!) the legal merits of the claim is to consign it to the backburner for the next fifty years.

It is a sad commnetary on the Philippines if our own nationals should run to the UN because their government cannot protect their rights. This is not the spectacle our country wants to portray to the international community.

It is now urgent to cease to be “confused” and move and act decisively. Time to end the Kabuki play on Sabah.

(The author is a veteran Philippine diplomat. He was the Philippine Permament Representative to the United Nations from May 2003 to  February 2007. Prior to that, he was Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Policy.)

Link to original story here.

"Grow some dignity!" Philippine Sabah Claim Forum member tells President Aquino

In his speech at the commencement exercises of the Philippine Military Academy Pudang Kalis class of 2013 in Baguio City, President Aquino attempted to defend himself (and to whine about his hair loss ) from growing criticisms for his inaction or wooly* position at best overMalaysia siege against Filipinos in Tanduo, Sabah stand-off.

Lawrence Igana of the Philippine Sabah Claim Forum gives Aquino a strong tap in his 'backside' which we hope will rouse the Philippine chief executive from his - borrowing from Manila Standard Today's Linda Jimeno - 'un-involved observer stance'.

Here's what Lawrence said: 'GROW SOME DIGNITY, MR PRESIDENT'

"Consider your position you say? What about the position of those who were actually in Sabah? Those who took action; may it be drastic and crude. Those who actually have the conscience to say "enough"? Have you considered their position Mr. President?

"We are all looking for a diplomatic solution which will give finality to this issue. What happened in Lahad Datu should not have happened if YOU as our President took a stand to at least assert which avenue we will take to have our stake noticed (which basing in all historical facts is valid).

"You are blaming the Kirams for their actions which led to the displacement of thousands of Filipino in Sabah. Well I guess the same can be said for your lack of action. The only difference is, our Muslim brothers who took part in the Lahad Datu siege actually have the balls. They'd much rather face death and fight for what is right, than to stand in the sideline while they see the rape of Sabah.

"Did you even have the guts to talk about this issue when the Sultan of Brunei visited the Philippines? Was it a part of your agenda sir? Or your only agenda is to lure the Sultan towards your sister?

"Procrastinating will not get this issue solved sir. I think by now you would have seen that it's obvious. Grow some dignity. Your father once said that the Filipinos are worth dying for. What say you?"

~~

*'wooly' is a typical English expression to mean vague, intangible, unclear, etc...

NB: "GROW SOME DIGNITY, MR PRESIDENT!" is also posted on Defenders of the Philippine Sabah and Spratly Claims 

Link to Aquino speech: Speech of President Aquino during the commencement exercises of the Philippine Military Academy Pudang Kalis class, March 17, 2013 [English] 

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Aquino Government's un-involved observer stance on Sabah claim by Filipinos - beyond comprehension

In her article "Reclaiming Sabah", Manila Standard Today columnist Linda V. Jimeno, rightly points out: 

"Why the government is taking the stance of an un-involved observer is beyond comprehension. When the sovereignty and dominion over the territory was transferred to the Philippine government by the Sultanate in 1962–which the government accepted as shown in its many overt acts–the government took on the responsibility of reclaiming Sabah and protecting Filipinos who initiate non-violent actions to revive the Philippine claim." 

Full article: 

Reclaiming Sabah Posted on Apr. 15, 2013 Manila Standard Today

In my column last week entitled “Legal basis for the Sabah claim,” I discussed how the Sulu Sultanate came to acquire North Borneo (Sabah) and exercise dominion and sovereignty over it, and how Malaysia  came to possess the territory. 

In this article, questions on what the Philippines has done to make an official claim over Sabah and how Malaysia responded will be discussed, culling from the booklet written by Prof. Emmanuel Q. Yap, founder of the People’s Patriotic Movement. 

When the Sulu Sultanate transferred by a legal instrument its dominion and sovereignty over Sabah to the Philippine government in 1962, did the government do anything to assert its ownership over Sabah? Yes. Even before the Federation of Malaysia came into being, the Philippine government, in 1950, advised the British government that it had a claim over Sabah. Too, the Federation of Malaya (not yet Malaysia) recognized that there was an Aide Memoire dated August 2, 1962 from the Foreign Affairs Department of the Philippines which reminded the Federation of Malaya that “Britain occupies the territory by the terms of the lease which, in no way, entitles the British government to claim ownership or sovereignty over the territory or to transfer it to any entity whatsoever.” 

The Federation of Malaya acknowledged this Aide Memoire by also handing an Aide Memoire to the Philippine Ambassador in Kuala Lumpur on October 3, 1962 stating that the government of the Federation of Malaya and the British government agreed that they would work towards a formal agreement for the transfer of the North Borneo territory (and Singapore) to the Federation of Malaysia. No such formal agreement was ever reached. Yet, Britain proceeded to include Sabah among the territories it transferred to Malaysia. 

On December 29, 1962, the Philippines and the United Kingdom announced an agreement to hold talks on the Philippine claim. Thus, from January 28 to February 1, 1963 the first Ministerial Conference on the Claims was held in London with then Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez heading the RP panel. 

Did not the Philippines object to the formation of the Federation of Malaysia on September 16, 1963 which included Sabah? Yes, it did, together with Indonesia which, in turn, was claiming Sarawak. Thus, then Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, Indonesian President Soekarno and Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal met in Manila in August 1963.  The Manila Accord of 1963 was signed where Malaysia agreed that the inclusion of Sabah in its Federation would not prejudice the Philippine claim. Malaysia acknowledged the right of the Philippines to pursue its claim in accordance with international laws and the United Nations principles of pacific settlement of disputes. 

From February 5 to 10, 1964, the first round of talks between Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia (known as the Maphilindo talks) was held in Bangkok. Around the same time, President Macapagal and the Malaysian Prime Minister met in Phnom Penh. The Tunku agreed to elevate the claim to the International Court of Justice and encouraged the Philippines to submit a memorandum detailing the basis of its claims. The foreign affairs ministers of the Maphilindo states held a second round of talks from March 5 to 6, 1964. Then in June 1964 the Philippines gave to Malaysia its memorandum, “Philippine Claim to North Borneo Vol. 1” as suggested by the Malaysian Prime Minister. 

What happened in the Maphilindo talks in Bangkok? The talks failed because Malaysia unilaterally rejected the Philippine claim to Sabah and then terminated the talks. In so doing, it arrogated unto itself the power of a judge while being a contending party in the dispute. The talks were held supposedly to agree on what modes of settlement, as provided in the Manila Accord of 1963, were acceptable to both governments. 

How significant are the meetings in London and in Bangkok to the Philippine claim? The London foreign ministers’ meeting was significant in that it gave the Philippine claim the status of a legitimate international dispute. On the other hand, the Maphilindo agreement to meet in Bangkok pursuant to the Manila Accord was significant in that it contained a reservation agreed upon by the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia that the formation of Malaysia would not prejudice the unresolved Philippine claim over North Borneo (Sabah). All three countries also agreed to settle the dispute by peaceful means such as arbitration. In effect, therefore, Malaysia accepted the existence of the legitimacy of the Philippine claim to Sabah. 

What is the effect of Malaysia’s unilateral termination of the Maphilindo talks in Bangkok? Malaysia violated several solemn agreements. One of them is the Manila Accord. Another is the agreement between the Philippine President and the Malaysian Prime Minister in Phnom Penh that the two countries would discuss the “best way of settling the claim, not precluding reference to the International Court of Justice.” Still another was the exchange of Communique between the two countries where both essentially agreed to discuss the best way to settle the claim. 

Should the Sultanate of Sulu be blamed for taking proactive action in reclaiming Sabah? The manner the Sultanate asserted its claim may not have been the proper and legal way but this writer will not go as far as blaming the Sultanate. The historical records speak for themselves. Why the government is taking the stance of an un-involved observer is beyond comprehension. When the sovereignty and dominion over the territory was transferred to the Philippine government by the Sultanate in 1962–which the government accepted as shown in its many overt acts–the government took on the responsibility of reclaiming Sabah and protecting Filipinos who initiate non-violent actions to revive the Philippine claim. 

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Former UMNO Assemblyman views Najib with contempt and asks questions about the Sulu Sultanate 'excursion' in Lahad Datu

Former UMNO Assemblyman Mohd Ariff Sabri Azziz (in picture) wrote "Why’s Najib on a witch-hunt?" for Free Malaysia Today in which he treats Malaysia PM Najib in the most contemptible manner possible (and rightly so if I may say.)

Never have a I read an article published in the usually not-so-democratic Malaysia press albeit in Sabah as contemptible of an UMNO man in power as the one written by Ariff Sabri Aziz. Could it be that this former UMNO Assemblyman is expecting UMNO's defeat in the forthcoming Sabah elections and has no more qualms about attacking Malaysia's current strongman who, I should add, is also the man who ordered the wholescale murder of people from the Sulu Sultanate group in Sabah last month?

In his article, Ariff Sabri Aziz writes of Najib as "value less", "Fuhrer-minded", one "cavorting with questionable organisations, the underworld and other gangster-like groupings" no doubt alluding to Najib's connection with the murder of a Mongolian woman during his tenure as Malaysia defence minister for which his henchman, a Razak Baguinda, was jailed for a while and then freed when Najib became PM; that Najib's "tenure as Pahang menteri besar was lacklustre", and so forth and so on. (And to think that President Aquino looks up to the Malaysia prime minister so highly that he parroted every word Najib said during the initial days of the Sabah stand-off.)

In keeping with the saying that the 'enemy of my enemy is my friend,' I would have been contented with Ariff Sabri Aziz' piece as he thrashed Najib with one ad hominem after another had he not injected the following remark which, to my mind, served to rebuke the real owners of Sabah, i.e., the Sulu Sultanate and by extension, the Tausugs of Sulu:  "There is a breakdown in law and order. The Umno government has failed to protect its citizens from being set upon by other citizens, because the perpetrators are the brownshirts from Umno."

Other citizens? What 'other citizens'? The Sulu Sultanate are the proprietary right holders of Sabah while the Philippine Republic holds the sovereignty rights which is carved in Philippine law under Republic Act 5446. 

Perhaps, there is a need to remind Mr Aziz that following the transfer of sovereignty rights over Sabah to the Republic of the Philippines by Sultan Esmail Kiram on 12 September 1962, Suluks, Tausugs, citizens of Sulu, displaced Moros and even Filipinos of different ethnic origins became the natural citizens of Sabah. Fortunately, Arriff Sabri Aziz redeemed himself after he asks some questions which neutralised his otherwise slanted remark.

For example, he asks, "What exactly did Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak offer Jamalul Kiram III?"

Ariff Sabri Aziz, to his credit, also makes an eyebrow raising remark over which I think Jamallul Kiram III may be able to shed light: "I will not be surprised to learn eventually that Najib made some offers to the Sulu Sultan in exchange for political support." Does Aziz, a former UMNO man know something we don't?

And his other two questions if answered by any of the protagonists, i.e., Najib, Jamallul Kiram III or even his brother Esmail Kiram II, should help greatly in understanding where we are all at with regard to the Sabah claim: "Were these people promised land and the promises reneged? Did Najib turn down a request from the Sulu Sultan to meet up with him when Najib was in Manila recently?"

On the whole, it is rather 'refreshing' to read a straightforward anti-Najib and anti-UMNO piece from a Malaysian UMNO politician (because that's who Mr Aziz is in reality.)  It tells me that perhaps, not all Malaysians are devoid of sense of discernment after all.

~~ By Anne de Bretagne For the Defenders of Philippine Sovereignty 10 April 2013

ARTICLE:
Why’s Najib on a witch-hunt?  
Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz | April 9, 2013
Did Najib Tun Razak renege on a deal with Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and is now worried that the truth will see light?
 

Trust must be earned, Mr Prime Minister, and right now we don’t see a leader. What we see is a slumlord with wads of cash in hand, doling out moneyed kindness.

What exactly did Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak offer Jamalul Kiram III?

I will not be surprised to learn eventually that Najib made some offers to the Sulu Sultan in exchange for political support.

The government has not been forthcoming in its explanations to reveal what is the true story behind the Lahad Datu tragedy.

Were these people promised land and the promises reneged? Did Najib turn down a request from the Sulu Sultan to meet up with him when Najib was in Manila recently?

So Najib and his government go on a McCarthy-like witch-hunt victimising people like Tian Chua who was charged with politically motivated legal action.

And the spiritual adviser of Umno is up to his usual despicable, dirty and utterly unethical tactics of imputing the Sulu invasion was financed by some party.

Suddenly you hear the spiritual adviser of Umno – the man who made the edict “better to be friends with the devil you know than the angel you don’t” – dishing up homilies and simplistic advice meant, unfortunately, for Umno simpletons.

Are we surprised? No!

We are not surprised to see Umno cavorting with questionable organisations, the underworld and other gangster-like groupings. Why? Because befriending bad people is second-nature to Umno and its leaders.

Value-less Najib
Values and mind-set, people say, are formed before one is 40 years old.

From then on, one draws down from the reservoir of accumulated knowledge and value system that one has. 

What has Najib accumulated before his was 40?

Did he spend his young years burning the midnight oil to get through his MCE and HSC?

Did he go through years of deprivation that shaped the character of most of us?

His years as Pahang menteri besar were embroiled in the wholesale plunder of Pahang’s forest.

I can remember in the early 1980s, he appointed his cousin to head a state-owned timber company. At that time the fellow earned RM40,000 per month and was driving a Porsche or a Ferrari.

The regional manager of Shell, based in Kuantan at that time, an employee of the second biggest company in the world, was earning a salary of RM11,000 a month.

Najib’s tenure as Pahang menteri besar was lacklustre. His mediocrity was only exceeded by his pursuits of other nocturnal distractions.

Najib didn’t come into office with stellar academic achievements.

His first job was as personal assistant to then chairman of Petronas, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. He was more of a bag carrier for Tengku Razaleigh then.

‘Fuhrer’ Najib
Between then and now there’s been nothing exciting except plunder and pillage.

The main players in the economy remain a chosen few friends and cronies, making Najib’s boastful pledge of implementing a New Economic Model entirely hollow.

There is a breakdown in law and order. The Umno government has failed to protect its citizens from being set upon by other citizens, because the perpetrators are the brownshirts from Umno.

Umno is behaving almost Nazi-like and Najib, well, he’s the Fuhrer. Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Furhrer: One People, One Nation and One Leader! The Fuhrer looks the other way as his brownshirts intimidated and assaulted fellow citizens.

Nothing personal, it’s just business and I am asking what many more people are asking: What has Najib got in common with us, common people?

In terms of accumulated experience and formed values system, Najib is sorely wanting.

He has the least qualities that we can identify with and yet, people, unschooled and brainwashed want him to lead this nation?

Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz is a former Umno assemblyman and is now a DAP member. He is a FMT columnist.

Link to article: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/04/09/whys-najib-on-a-witch-hunt/

Kuala Lumpur to put Filipino Tausugs on trial for Sabah 'incursion'

Anwar Ibrahim, high profile victim of the 
so-called Kuala Lumpur justice system 
after he dared challenge Mahathir who accused 
him of sodomy in Kuala Lumpur's 
pathetic burlesque justice show

Court will try intrusion case fairly says Malaysia's Attorney General Gani from Kuala Lumpur.

Fair trial for Suluks in Kuala Lumpur? Pigs might fly! 

Kuala Lumpur officials have no business putting Suluks on trial under Kuala Lumpur justice system. 

Moreover, Kuala Lumpur has no business labelling them 'terrorists' because they are not. We must all remember that the Royal Sulu Army and their supporters went to Sabah which, by Philippine law, is Philippine territory. 

Under Republic Act 5446, the Philippines has title and dominion over Sabah. The Philippine Government and its leaders must not allow Kuala Lumpur to further inflict and heap abuse on Suluks and Filipino Tausugs.  

The Philippine Government and Filipinos worldwide must vigorously protest Kuala Lumpur's planned farce against Suluks in Sabah that they call justice system. Do not trust Malaysians! Their justice system is highly flawed and  is meant more to amuse the Malaysian gallery than to deliver justice.

A very good example: Just ask former Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (in picture) about how Kuala Lumpur's rocambolesque justice system dealt with his case when he dared opposed Mahathir! Human Rights Watch said Malaysia proceedings against Mahathir violated basic fair trial rights.

Our Suluks have absolutely no chance of getting a fair trial in the hands of the illegal occupants of Sabah as we shout loud and clear to the world that Kuala Lumpur has no business putting them on trial!

~~ By Defenders of the Philippine Sabah and Spratly Claims
27 March 2013

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REPORT: March, 26, 2013 - 9:09 pm
Court will try intrusion case fairly says Malaysia's Attorney General Gani from Kuala Lumpur  

KUALA LUMPUR: Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail is confident Malaysia’s courts will try the Sulu terrorists involved in the intrusion into Lahad Datu, Sabah in a fair and efficient manner. 

He said the case would not take too much time to complete. 

“Ever since Tun Zaki (former Chief Justice Tun Zaki Azmi) started the programme in court, I think they have been very efficient. 

“Mention date has been set on April 12, and then we will fix for trial, insya-Allah, I think within months we will have the trial. 

“But, we must also take into account the security circumstances, as the matter is not something straight-forward,” he told reporters after witnessing the signing of a renewal of agreement between the Malaysian Government and the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation (AALCO) here Tuesday. 

Abdul Gani said the case investigation officer would meet him Wednesday, to give a briefing on the terrorists who were still under detention. 

For more, read Borneo Insider report here.

In picture: Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (R), his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (C) and his daughter Nurul Nuha Anwar, leave the courtroom in Putrajaya on February 17, 2010. © 2010 Reuters

Kuala Lumpur, Peninsular Malaysia troops beat and forced civilian Suluk farmer in Sabah to eat feces

SABAH STAND-OFF: Kuala Lumpur, Peninsular Malaysia troops beat and beat and forced civilian Suluk farmer in Sabah to eat feces

Affidavit of a returning resident Suluk from Tawau, Sabah from Sabah stand-off: Beaten and forced to eat feces.

Kuala Lumpur armies and police forces kill a whole family in Sabah including children

LATEST FROM Borneo Insider (NOTICE THEIR HEADLINE: "MALAYSIA moves residents out of invasion, etc...")

UPDATED – DAY 21: OPs DAULAT Malaysia moves residents out of invasion zone as it tries to root out Filipino invaders

Najib says, "The existence of settlements are easily exposed to the danger of infiltration by illegal immigrants and stateless persons."

NOTE that Najib is carbon copying the tactics of General Templer when the latter rooted out Communist insurgents in Malaya during the Malaya Emergency and will have no qualms sacrificing the lives of children.

Troops in an armoured carrier race to Tanjung Batu
after a shoot-out between intruders and police
Sunday morning which saw the murder
of an entire family including children.

The armies and police forces of Kuala Lumpur have killed a family including children according to Borneo Insider

OUR QUESTIONS: What is President Aquino doing to protect the thousands and thousands of "stateless" Filipinos in Sabah who were born in the land which, by Philippine law, is Philippine territory. Will President Aquino continue to support the inhuman and illegal treatment being inflicted by Kuala Lumpur officials on Filipino Suluks and other Filipinos of various ethnic origins in Sabah? When will President Aquino be a patriot?

What will it take for this Republic to stand up for what is right? Where are its leaders?

If this government condones what the officials of Kuala Lumpur are doing, there is no chance for other countries, not even the United Nations, to help the citizens of the Republic in peril in Sabah.


~~ By Admin SMS
Philippine Sabah Claim Forum
25 March 2013

Latest Kuala Lumpur propaganda: Malaysia Deputy Inspector General of the Police says he has successfully crippled Suluk Army in Sabah

LATEST PROPAGANDA FROM MALAYSIA DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE POLICE March, 23, 2013 - 6:52 pm: "Sulu military commander captured; Kuala Lumpur security forces have successfully crippled the movements of the terrorists from Sulu" 

OUR VIEW: Do these Kuala Lumpur officials really believe that they've 'crippled' the Suluk Army movement with the arrest of one Suluk and his wife in Sabah? 

They must have been reading lots of fairy tales to cling to such fantasmagorical beliefs that they can cripple the Tausugs of Sulu just like that! Fantasmagorical declarations won't make a dent in the Suluk Army's great fighting prowess.

Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar merely is extending the stupidity of Kuala Lumpur officials when they propagate historical fantasies to their people whom they have been feeding during school years with some completely rubbish examples: 

(1) that Malaya fought for its independence from the Brits which is total hogwash! The Malayans did not want to be independent -- they were so fearful of being left with the Chinese in Malaya, they wanted the Brits to stay and play nanny to them. But the Brits said, "You are going to have your independence whether you like it or not in 1957." 

(2) Kuala Lumpur officials continue to spread the fallacy that MALAYSIA gained their independence from the British in 1963 which is total hogwash. MALAYSIA was created in 1963 by "federating" Malaya Federation (Peninsular Malaysia whose capital today is Kuala Lumpur), Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah so how could the Brits grant MALAYSIA Independence when it was only created in September 1963. Furthermore, the Brits had technically and very officially not ruled Malaya Federation since 1957!  

(3) that Malayans were responsible for the defeat of communists in Peninsular Malaysia which is an utter, total hogwash. It was the Brits led by General Gerald Templar along with the Aussies, the Indian recruits and the Gurkhas who fought and defeated Communist insurgents in Malaya! The bone-idle Malayans could not be trusted to fight with the Brits. Half the time, local Malayan intel was rubbish... Oh, yes, the Malayans carried the bags and drove for the fighting soldiers of the combined British Commonwealth but doing the fighting? No way. In fact, a senior British military officer said the Malayan SOB recruits were "a total waste of precious meagre rations."

(4) that Malayans fought the Indonesians in what has been known as the Konfrontasi, the low-intensity armed conflict over Sarawak which took place 1962-1966; complete, utter hogwash! The Malayans did not do bloody anything! It was the Brits, the Aussies, the New Zealanders, the Gurkhas, the Indian recruits who fought the Indonesians during the Konfrontasi years! Where were the Malayans? Twisting their bone idle bodies, doing nothing, incapable of lifting their backsides even if it meant their very own survival!

Kuala Lumpur spews lies, lies, lies, etc, etc., etc., ...The Malayans are the greatest propagandists of lies, much like their best friends today, China...

So, we say to Malaya's Deputy Director General of the Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar: Go tell what you say to your marines!

~~ Admins, Defenders of the Philippine Sabah and Spratly Claims 
23 March 2013

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In picture: Deputy Inspector General of Police, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar (right) briefing settlers of Felda Sahabat from Perumahan Kilang Sawit Nilam Permata Kembara Sakti at the Baithul Rahman Kembara Sakti Mosque in Tungku on Saturday. He gave the all clear to let them return to their homes.

REPORT FROM SABAH:

LAHAD DATU: The security forces have successfully crippled the movements of the terrorists from Sulu who intruded into Lahad Datu after capturing their military commander in Semporna, early this morning. 

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the man, in his 40s, was detained with his wife at a swampy area at 1.30am after a tip off.
He said the security forces also detained a local who provided all the needs of the terrorists from the early days of their landing in Kampung Tanduo on Feb 12 until today. 

Without going into further details on the man who is in his 40s, Khalid said he was caught at 10pm yesterday in Kampung Tanduo and was now being held under the Immigration Act. 

“The local coordinator has been identified as the individual who made arrangements for food and drinks, accommodation, transportation and medicine for the terrorists since the early part of the intrusion. 

“With the capture of the commander and a local stooge of the terrorists, I am confident the terrorist group is now crippled,” he told a media conference at the security forces operations heaquarters at Felda Sahabat 16 near here today.
Khalid said with the capture of the two individuals, he believed the movements of the remnants of the terrorists were now limited and weakened as they were directionless and no longer getting assistance from locals.

To President Aquino: It's never too late to show even a sliver of courage

A letter to the President of the Philippines (in picture)

Subject: The Kuala Lumpur sponsored soon-to-be circus trial of the eight Filipinos charged with terrorism, including two of them who were also charged with waging a war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia).

Mr President, 

You virtually went on bended knees crawling before China authorities to spare the lives of some convicted drug mules on the pretext that every Filipino life is important.

But sadly, that personal doctrine of yours (or was that perhaps just for show?) went straight into the rubbish bin when it came to Sabah and to your friendship with Najib. You implied that your peace deal with the MILF which Kuala Lumpur has been engineering for you - but which was, in reality, a Malaysian strategical ploy for you to bury the Sabah claim - took premium over the lives of the peaceful Suluks who went to Sabah to stake their claim.

Instead of reassuring the Suluks, you disowned and publicly humiliated them on nationwide television, parroting the lines of Najib who literally was crapping all over you, over your manhood, over your dignity - AND THIS NATION's DIGNITY, even as Malaysians themselves were surprised that you had become Najib's spokesman.

Incidentally, Mr President, you may not know it - or may have chosen to ignore it, your friend and bogus "peace" engineer Najib Razak is the son of former Malaysia prime minister Tunku Abdul Razak who hated PH so much after your own Daddy (RIP) denounced Operation Merdeka back in the late 60s that he (Najib's Daddy) began funding the MNLF and MILF rebellion in the South.

Mr President, lest you forget, it was a foreign military with seven battalions of troops armed to the teeth who, upon orders of a foreign government (never mind if the leader of that foreign government was your best friend), launched the attack on the Filipino Tausugs in Tanduo and not the other way around as you and your brilliant advisers would like the public to believe.

Today, you stand accused in the court of public opinion of betrayal of trust, of violating your oath as president of the Republic, of de facto burying the nation's Sabah claim, of inaction in time of crisis, and even of cowardice, but Mr President, you can still redeem some of the remaining shreds of dignity this nation has left by fighting for our people who are facing the wrath of a foreign government and its armies that are occupying Sabah which, as you have now been told, is Philippine territory by PH law by virtue of Republic Act 5446.

If you choose to continue ignoring the plight and the human rights abuses heaped against our fellowmen in Sabah by a foreign government and its armed component, heaven help you Mr President but you will go down in history as the most ignoble and morally corrupt leader this country has ever known. But if you turn around now and show a brave face against the officials of Kuala Lumpur in defence of your people, you just might end up a hero in public eyes.

Think about it Mr President! It's never too late to show even a sliver of courage.

Thank you, Mr President.

We remain,

~~ Defenders of the Philippine Sabah and Spratly Claims
21 March 2013

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REPORT: The eight accused Filipinos were among 107 suspected Sulu gunmen or suspected local supporters of the Kirams who were arrested by Malaysian security forces in sweeps in the districts of Lahad Datu, Tawau, Kunak, Sandakan and Semporna.
Radio 24 confirmed that as in Wednesday’s arraignment, none of the accused entered any plea.

Radio 24 said Malaysian Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail led prosecution.

Like the Sabah-based radio station, Radio 24 said no lawyer assisted the accused during both proceedings.

Radio 24 reported the judge as ordering the attrorney general to determine whether defense lawyers will be “appointed by the Bar Council of Malaysia, the Philippine government or the accused themselves.”

Read more: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/69799/seven-of-eight-filipinos-brought-to-sabah-court-in-straightjackets#ixzz2OAkpCkWJ 

HOW LOW WILL PRESIDENT AQUINO, PH GOVERNMENT GO TO APPEASE KUALA LUMPUR?

Philippine Army gives bronze medals to
Malaysian troops part of the outgoing
International Monitoring Team batch 7
in recognition of their efforts to monitor peace
between the Philippine government
and the MILF. (Photo by Ferdinand Cabrera) 

REPORT: Malaysian military peace monitors in PH despite standoff [the conflict is also known as Malaysia military's murder of Filipino citizens in Sabah] (Please see report below)

In Mindanao, outgoing Malaysian troops acting as "peacekeepers" for Malaysia-engineered GPH-MILF Bangsamoro homeland in the making are awarded Bronze medals by Philippine Army and are replaced by fresh Malaysian armed forces troops headed by a Malaysian general.

This is happening as Kuala Lumpur officials order Malaysia military to "wipe out" all Filipino Tausugs involved in the 'Sabah stand off.' 

JUST HOW LOW WILL THIS GOVERNMENT GO TO APPEASE kUALA LUMPUR? What is our Government doing while our fellow Filipinos are being chased by foreign troops in Sabah which, by Philippine law (Republic Act 5446), is a Philippine territory? Why does our Govt allow Malaysian military (disguised as Peacekeepers) to take control of Mindanao territory while PH citizens are being massacred in Sabah by the same Malaysian forces?

Govt should suspend permission for any and all Malaysian military (even under pretense of peacekeeping in Mindanao) missions and should not allow Kuala Lumpur troops to walk about in our territory while Malaysian forces are killing our people and are committing human rights abuses on Filipinos in Sabah.

It is absolutely insane to allow these Malaysian military troops on Mindanao while there is even the remotest conflict involving the citizens of the Republic on a mission to recoer their homeland and Malaysia troops. It is like allowing Kuala Lumpur military to build a beachhead into our territory with total impunity so they could prepare for a potential Malaysia armed forces invasion operation of our territory! INSANE!

Completely insane! PH even goes as far as to award outgoing "peacekeeping" Malaysian troops medals while Filipino Tausug fighting for Sabah homeland are getting murdered by Malaysia military forces! Does Govt not realise that these Malaysian 'Bronze Medalists' (courtesy of PH Army) just might be assigned to Sabah to kill our fellow Filipino Tasugs in Sabah?

HOW LOW WILL THIS GOVERNMENT GO TO APPEASE KUALA LUMPUR?

~~ Defenders of the Philippine Sabah and Spratly Claims 

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NEWS REPORT BY RAPPLER.COM POSTED ON 03/11/2013 6:51 PM | UPDATED 03/11/2013 6:50 PM

DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao – Despite tensions stemming from the month-long Sabah standoff, Malaysia sent a new set of troops to Mindanao as peace monitors. 

The troops arrived over the weekend to replace the outgoing batch of peace monitors whose one-year tour of duty under the International Monitoring Team (IMT) batch 7 expired. 

Malaysia is brokering a peace deal with the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The peace process is now in the fine-tuning phase, with the recent signing of one of the annexes on the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro. 

Four of the 19 contingents are from the combined Royal Army of Malaysia, Royal Navy, Royal Police and civilian components. They arrived as part of the advanced party of the Malaysian monitors. 

IMT batch 8 headed by Maj Gen Dato Fadzil Bin Mokhtar received a welcome during a farewell dinner for IMT batch 7. 

Mokhtar addressed questions on whether or not the Sabah standoff will affect his team’s mission. 

“I don’t think so. We arrived in wrong timing [but] we have no apprehension at all [that] this new tour of duty will be tarnished in relation to the Sabah issue. We are clear on our mission here: to continue to monitor the ceasefire,” said Mokhtar. 

Outgoing head-of-mission of IMT batch 7, MGen Dato Abdul Rahim Bin Mohd Yusuff echoed the view. 

“IMT is concerned only [with] the directive by the Philippine government and the MILF to monitor the ceasefire,” Yusuff said. 

The Malaysian troops arrived amid criticism from some sectors of Philippine society about the crackdown on Filipinos in Sabah. Refugees from Sabah have reported abuses and atrocities supposedly committed by Malaysian security forces. 

A total of 52 militants and 8 Malaysian police officers have been shot dead and 85 people have been arrested for possible links to the followers of the Sultanate of Sulu. 

The standoff began exactly one month ago when the followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III crossed over to Sabah to assert their historical claim over the territory. 

Full story in this link http://www.rappler.com/nation/23573-malaysian-peace-monitors-in-ph-despite-standoff