To my fellow Sarawakians who are celebrating Hari Gawai Dayak festival on 1st June, I wish you all a wonderful meaningful one – an abundance of blessing and prosperity be yours and family!
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SARAWAKIANS AS OPPOSED TO UMNO’S RACIST COLONIAL “BUMIPUTRA” DIVIDE & RULE POLICY
‘MALAYSIA” IS A FATE WORSE THAN JAPANESE OCCUPATION
Hey check out the 9 Cardinal Principles in our 1st Sarawak Constitution 1941. It was a fair constitution and everyone was promised a place in the sun.
Clause one says simply “Sarawak is our heritage” and we saw 47 of breach of trust by those who were entrusted with State power and stripping of our heritage of oil and timber wealth.
See Clause 3 of the 9 Cardinal Principles and how the “bumiputra” concept violates this Principle.
Now with so-called “Malaysian Constitution” we are treated as no more than colonial subjects and this is reality.
It is not just about whether we are treated as “bumiputras” – this is NOT the “Malaysia” deal. The 18 0r 20 Points do not specified that “bumiputras” are in anyway special than other races- just that their rights had to be safeguarded from the outrageous racist and fascist domination of one particular race over all others!
Our basic rights enshrined in the UN Charter of Human Rights have been abused to the limit by the UMNO colonial rulers.
Sarawakians have been lured with sweet promises and the natives are put in the middle of deciding what they want. The end result is 47 years of dead end social development of our society where we are confused as to our identity.
In 1941 we had a clear national identity AND AGENDA – everyone was a Sarawakian FIRST.
To quote a famous Sarawakian Brother Michael Jacques in his memoirs declared in the preface to his autobiography “The Man from Borneo”- “I have never lost the Spirit of being a Sarawakian and proud of it”. The title of his book says it all.
We must be Sarawakians first and anything else later. (That does not mean we should not continue to practice all our own culture). Being Sarawakians is to be united a sone nation under the banner of “Sarawak”
We should stop supporting the UMNO or PKR divide and rule “bumitputra” apartheid policies and stand up as Sarawakians and fight for Sarawak independence.
The comments made below is from a previous HU article (October 2010) on the 9 Cardinal Principles of the Sarawak Constitution.
We should closely examine these principles and see their value for us to re-build our national consciouness in place of the fake or arificial “Malaysian” identity.
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NINE CARDINAL PRINCIPLES
Vaguely remember this mentioned by a teacher at school.
The “principles” were the Brooke vision which never got a chance because of the Japanese Invasion and then British and Malayan colonial rules.
HU is a bit cynical about them but why not take them on face value and see how they apply today? Disregard the colonial patronisation…
The “Nine Cardinal Principles” from the Preamble to the 1941 Sarawak Constitution.
1. That Sarawak is the heritage of Our Subjects and is held in trust by Ourselves for them.
Comments: Sarawak is OUR inalienable heritage! But who grabbed our heritage? Our so-called “trustees” in the persons of UMNO PBB BN politicians and how they abused this trust!
2. That social and education services shall be developed and improved and the standard of living of the people of Sarawak shall steadily be raised.
Comments: Do the people in general have a higher standard of living than before 1963? We got steady backward development in social and education services in “Malaysia” because of UMNO PBB BN plunder of our country. If UMNO has its way Sarawak will soon be converted to be part of 1Melayu.
3. That never shall any person or persons be granted rights inconsistent with those of the people of this country or be in any way permitted to exploit Our Subjects or those who have sought Our protection and care.
Comments: This one is prophetic in the reverse. The Malaysian Constitution actually took away our fundamental human rights for a free and democratic life in favour of privileges for one race-the Malays from Malaya. They and their cronies exploited us to the limit and did not protect us the rampant plunder of resources for the last 47 years. They allowed Transmigration by the back door and freely give IDs to illegal migrants (400,000+ in Sabah. In Sarawak?) to boost their voting power. This is an abuse of our right to exercise our vote democratically.
How did they care for all of us…? We know- UMNO PBB BN & Taib took all the wealth and left us with crumbs- and an undeveloped economy.
4. That justice shall be freely obtainable and that the Rajah and every public servant shall be easily accessible to the public.
Comments: Justice in “Malaysia” is predictable – one for the rich & powerful policians (politician can get away with murder- Mongolian lady and poor Teoh Beng Hock) and one for the ordinary citizens- ISA detention and officially sanctioned murders in detention and unofficial ones. They are now going after the Malays themselves if these brothers/sisters are not of UMNO faith.
The accessibility of Malaysian officials to the public is notoriously non-existent.
5. That freedom of expression both in speech and in writing shall be permitted and encouraged and that everyone shall be entitled to worship as he pleases.
Comments: Ha! what a laugh! Their (Malayan colonial) laws ensure we have no real freedom of expression…. None permitted nor encouraged Religious freedom ? That may be gone soon…
6. That public servants shall ever remember that they are but the servants of the people on whose goodwill and co-operation they are entirely dependent.
Comments: Great ONE! Let us remind those public servants since they have a lost of memory who they serve!
7. That so far as may be Our Subjects of whatever race or creed shall be freely and impartially admitted to offices in Our Service, the duties of which they may be qualified by their education, ability and integrity duly to discharge.
Comments: You all know about the discrimination against entry of non-Malays in the Publilc services- even if they have 10 Phds and speak the “National Language” better than anyone.
8. That the goal of self-government shall always be kept in mind, that the people of Sarawak shall be entrusted in due course with the governance of themselves, and that continuous efforts shall be made to hasten the reaching of this goal by educating them in the obligations, the responsibilities, and the privileges of citizenship.
Comments: YES! YES! We have not forgotten “goal of self-government”. Well since Vyner bartered our independence to the British and the British re-sold us to Malaya!
Agreed we must all make continuous efforts to reach this goal. We heed your words! In the meantime we have no privileges of citizenship to economic opportunities and education or employment. So Sons & Daughters of Sarawak have become part of the brain drain….
9. That the general policy of Our predecessors and Ourselves whereby the various races of the State have been enabled to live in happiness and harmony together shall be adhered to by Our successors and Our servants and all who may follow them hereafter.
Comments: We are all still trying to live in happiness and harmony. However, this is increasingly hard when Nazis like Najib and UMNO want to impose their facist one race superiority (warped)ideology on everyone. They shamelessly threatened & terrorise the people with more “MAY 13s pogroms” “ethnic cleansing”, blood and crushing of bones, deportation of people born and bred in Malaya (and Sarawak?) and lived there for hundreds of years. Hitler’s Mein Kampf is their text book (not the Koran)! They act like terrorists.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE CARDINAL PRINCIPLES IF APPLIED IN A POSITIVE CAN BE GOOD.
HOW CAN WE ACHIEVE THIS?
Comment by Abang — October 22, 2010 @ 11:50 AM | Reply
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WE CAN ALL WORK ON A NEW NODEL OF THE 9 CARDINAL PRINCIPLES FOR A NEW AND FREE SARAWAK!
Comment by 1941Rights — June 3, 2011 @ 9:15 PM |
For TM, his family and cronies ….. everyday is gawai!! Everyone else is dispensable. They will keep on laughing to the bank, everyday.
Comment by foreigner — June 3, 2011 @ 11:22 AM |
Every deserving Malaysian should be given admission to university and/or scholarship regardless of ethnic/religious background if Malaysia is to become a progressive nation.
It is very sad that the Sarawak state constitution does not recognise someone of mixed parentage as a bumiputera if the father is non-native. This has been the practice since the days of the Brookes. Mixed marriages, though not unusual, are not that common. It is not an issue if the father is a native because the child will bear an indigenous name.
Sarawakians get the short end of the stick. For a Chinese father and native mother, their children are categorised as non-bumiputera.
But take the case of Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the ex-PM: his father is Indian, his mother is Malay, so he is bumiputera. He married a Malay girl, all his children are regarded as bumiputera.
Abdul Taib Mahmud, the Sarawak CM, is another example. He is a Melanau, his wife was Australian-Polish, all his children are bumiputera.
We have one rule for some people, another rule for others, while Muslims seem to get the best deal, as no matter what the mixture, they still become bumiputera. The worst deal is reserved for non-Muslim Sarawakians.
Comment by Bruno — June 2, 2011 @ 11:21 AM |
THOUGHTS FOR GAWAI DAY- SARAWAK’S FATE AS AN UMNO COLONY
In our 48th year of colonial bondage to the new colonialist Kuala Lumpur regime, we must express reservations on the sort of Gawai most poor Sarawak natives can look forward to celebrate.
A very large number of Sarawak sons and daughters of the soil have lost their land and means of survival thanks to the 48 years of UMNO PBB BN rule of pillage and plunder of native land and timber wealth.
Many thousands of ulu brothers and sisters have been driven off their traditional land and impoverished to make way for privatised timber logging, dam buildings and later the NCR lands laid bare were sold off for oil palm plantations.
A small single powerful family and ruling elite and their cronies and timber tycoon clique have been the main beneficiaries of this shameful organised theft of native wealth. This wealth is our national wealth. Most dispossessed landowners never recent one cent for this outrageous crime against the people by the “government” and if any payment was made it was not sufficient compensation and too late.
Life since 1963 has become a continued decline from the “good old days” to the “new bad times” of so-called “independence in Malaysia”. The land robbery coupled with the plunder of our country’s oil has turned Sarawak and also Sabah into the poorest “states of Malaysia”. The wealth has been drained to finance the “development” of Malaya and sadly to the overfilled pockets of the corrupt Kuala Lumpur ruling elite.
Many will remember on Gawai Day the promises made to entice Sarawakians to “join Malaysia”- They were these nice sounding words of “eradication of poverty” and “economic development”. The colonial rulers and their puppets are still making the same promises at every election but the majority of the people have yet to see these being “delivered”.
They have lived in hope for some 3 generations and it seems they will still have to wait as the ruling regime which re-installed itself through the latest crooked elections is now preparing to take the plunder of Sarawak to the next level with the “SCORE” project and more dams in the offing. This coupled with the announced mass transmigration of 80,000 “religious teachers” to Sarawak presents the danger of an imminent flood of Malayans disguised as “teachers”. What they will “teach” has caused alarms bells to ring.
The recent price hikes will make it even harder to celebrate Gawai as many rural households find it hard to make ends meet and to afford the most basic household necessities. The great irony is that Sarawak produces abundant oil which is used to benefit Malaya and not provided to Sarawakians as cheap fuel and generate cheap electricity to help alleviate the price hike and inflation. The KL colonial government has promised a 7% price hike.
Before 1963 life may have been hard but the people in general could rely on their forest as a backup for supplementary food supplies and the clean rivers for unpolluted drinking water and plentiful fish. Since the advent of unrestricted timber logging, Sarawak natives have suffered the destruction and pollution of their natural environment and food sources. Life has become harder tah before 1963. So perhaps the generous Gawais people used to celebrate have shrunk in size every year with less food on the table.
The landless people have now been made dependent on the money economy and this added to their worsening plight as they become exploited wages slaves in the oil palm plantations and other work places. Their life has become a vicious circle of making ends meet.
The sons and daughters of the soil have become urban toilers and they all have to make a berjalai not as pilgrimage of self discovery and adulthood but a journey of necessity for their families’ survival. Theirs has become journey of toil.
To all Sarawakians especially Dayaks who love their fair land Sarawak our berjalai as a nation began around 1841 with the advent of Brooke colonial territorial expansion and the evolution of Sarawak into a unique independent country with its own national government and national identity. In celebrating 100 years as sovereign state, the Brooke government drew up the Sarawak Constitution with a preamble called the “9 Cardinal Principles” which promised that the Sarawak people had the right to rule themselves.
However, in 1942 this promise was postponed by Japanese invasion and colonial occupation. Then in 1946 the last Rajah who betrayed and sold out right to this independence to the British in return for a large sum of money and retirement in England.
Then In 1963, the British promoted their idea of “Malaysia Plan” to place the territories of Malaya, Singapore Brunei Sabah and Sarawak under Malayan rule. The British Colonial Office had actually toyed with this idea in 1942 with a plan called the “Malayan Union”. It likely that the Sarawak resistance to direct British rule caused them to delay the plan till 1963.
In 1963 a new period of colonisation of Sarawak and its people with the imposition of Malaysia and Malayan UMNO rule on Sabah and Sarawak against the background of international and local opposition which saw the 1962 Brunei Uprising against Malaysia and thereafter a patriotic guerrilla war for Sarawak independence fought till 1990.
Why do we need to recite this history? While we celebrate Gawai let us not forget our country’s plight as a colony of UMNO Malaya. The threat of the 80,000 “religious teachers” is a strong reminder to all of us that we are all in greater danger of the ever tightening colonial grip of Kuala Lumpur as it now plans to indoctrinate us especially the school children with its colonial ideology disguised as “religious teachings”. This plan has already been implemented for many years and now they want to flood Sarawak with such teachers. This is a reflection of Kuala Lumpur’s failure to colonise and dominate us mentally in its attempt to make us believe we are an inseparable part of “Malaysia”. Sarawak may be occupied by the Malayan Army but that does not mean they can colonised us mentally.
We must see through this lie “independence in Malaysia”. Singapore broke away from Malayan rule in 1964 and Brunei chose not to “join”. Both of these states are faring better than Sabah and Sarawak as new colonies of Malaya.
Why should Sarawak with its vast resources and also 100 years of independence be ruled by a new colonial ruler which did not even exist as a country in 1841? Why should we be made subservient to Kuala Lumpur rule when we have the economic and educated force to run Sarawak as an independent sovereign state as it was in 1841? The worse part of it is that Sarawak has been impoverished to “develop” Malaya.
This new colonial arrangement has led to such observations as “No Oil, No Trees, No Land, No Harvest, No Food, NO Gawai”
For many Sarawakians this indeed neatly sums up their fate of “independence in Malaysia”.
Comment by Sarawakbaru — June 1, 2011 @ 11:18 PM |
“Most dispossessed landowners never RECEIVED one cent for this outrageous crime”
Comment by Sarawakbaru — June 1, 2011 @ 11:22 PM |