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A blog activist’s tale: video of RPK in Canberra

New Mandala - 04 Mar, 2011

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  1. Soo-Hay Khoo
    4 March 2011 at 4:01 pm

    On the question of the Opposition Pakatan Rakyat convincing the voters in East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak to vote for change, which according to R.P.K. is tough, because the Governments of those two states are under Barisan control, i.e. UMNO supporting all the corruption going on there, meaning distributing contracts to cronies and providing developments, minor to the longhouses and mega to urban areas, it would seem that the money and greed culture of the Sabahans and Sarawakians, will never be extinguished, more so, if the developed countries keep buying illegally or ‘legally’ logged timbers, and oil especially from Sarawak. What the Opposition should consider is to provoke and encourage independence for Sabah and Sarawak from Malaysia. The majority natives and pendatangs of Sabah and Sarawak do not need the minority so called Malays to rule them. Once Sabah and Sarawak are out of Malaysia, the Opposition with only Peninsular Malaysia states will have enough seats to run the Federal Government.
    Give them independence and Sabah and Sarawak will be forever grateful to Peninsular Malaysia. They will be sovereign countries and can run their own affairs, and should be with ASEAN grouping.

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