Re: [sangkancil] Abang Yusof Puteh-Taib Mahmud fued worsens
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At 10:39 24/01/98 +0800, MGG Pillai wrote:
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> So, no one was surprised when the state government took over
>Dato' Amar Abang Yusof Puteh's choice residence and the lands
>surrounding it to be passed on to that great Bolehland entrepreneur
>and business man, Tan Sri Dato' Dr Ting Pek Khiing of the Bakun
>debacle, in whose flagship (not much of a flag in there at the
>moment) company, Ekran, two sons of the chief minister play prominent
>roles. Dato' Amar Abang Yusof is challenging this in the courts.
>Then, to put on the pressure, Tan Sri Taib removed the state awards
>conferred on Dato' Amar Abang Yusof, including the Dato' Amar title.
>This shocked not just the Malays, but several in his state cabinet as
>well.
Typical of the rubbish that Taib has subjected us all for the last 16 years.
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> Now the battle is enjoined not between the two, their enmity
>notwithstanding, but between their respective communities. Tan Sri
>Taib is a Melanau who wants to pass himself off as a Malay.
Much as I would disagree with many of the things Taib has done, I doubt if
he has ever tried to pass himself off as a Malay. It is rather simplistic to
see this as merely a Malay-Melanau conflict. There are Malays as well as
Melanaus who do not agree with what is going on in Sarawak.
>Abang Yusof is a Malay, which does not accept the Melanaus as one of them.
There is no necessity for the Malays to accept the Melanaus as one of them
or vice versa. They are two distinct communities that need to undersatnd
each other better. The politics of exploitation has divided not only the
Malays and the Melanaus, but even the Malays against themselves and the
Melanaus against themselves.
>The Malay community does not accept the Melanaus to be Malays, in
>much the same way as the Malays in the peninsula does not accept
>Indian Muslims as one of them unless one of their parents is a
>Malay, or is brought up as a Malay. The Sarawak Malays would want to
>align themselves with UMNO but the Melanaus and Tan Sri Taib want it
>in only on their terms.
I am a Melanau (and there are many like me) who believes that the sooner
UMNO (notwithstanding its many weaknesses) comes to Sarawak the better it
will be for Sarawakians as a whole.
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> The Sarawak Malays would like one of their own to be the next chief
>minister, something Tan Sri Taib would not even consider.
Those Malays who are pushing for one of their own to become Chief Minister
only want to control the State for their own selfish agenda. I don't see
anyone among them who can claim to have what it takes to run the State in
the interests of ALL Sarawakians. If we want to see more pillage, by all
means let them have their way. This applies to the Melanaus in both Rahman's
(largely neutralised) and Taib's camps as well. There has to be a new
initiative by people who genuinely have the interests of all Sarawakians at
heart. That initiative can only be spearheaded by UMNO's entry into the State.
>The last Dayak chief minister was the late Penghulu Tawi Sli 30 years ago,
>and
>this community would also like to stake a claim. There was an
>understanding at Malaysia Day that the Sarawak Malay would provide
>the Yang Dipertua Negeri and the Dayaks the Chief Minister. That has
>been neutralised over the years so that we now have a Melenau Yang
>Dipertua Negeri and a Melanau chief minister.
I don't care who is the Chief Minister of Sarawak as long as he is a person
of integrity and honesty. This is something we don't have right now among
the ranks of the PBB or any of the other Sarawak BN component parties
unfortunately. Only with the entrance of UMNO into Sarawak will the pool of
truly capable and moral leadership material be enlarged.
>The removal of the titles from Abang Yusof Puteh has worsened the concord
within the
>National Front coalition in the state, especially within PBB.
This is typical of Taib's vindictiveness and true measure of his
"leadership" qualities which have endeared the people of Sarawak to him. I
wonder where he learned this from - Mahathir perhaps? I personally do not
care much for Yusuf Puteh and his ideas but I don't think anyone should
stoop so low as to remove his titles. He has a right to dissent just as much
as anyone else.
>Tan Sri Taib's autocratic governance begins to grate, as it has in Sabah
>and even in the peninsula. The humiliation of Abang Yusof Puteh
>could set the tone. The denouement would come sooner than later.
>And not to Tan Sri Taib's liking either.
The sooner Taib goes the better. The sooner Mahathir goes as well the
better. That should put to an end to a whole generation of selfish,
nepotistic, megalomaniacal and vindictive politics and allow us to
restructure and rebuild our shattered nation on more humanistic terms.
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>M.G.G. Pillai
>pillai@mgg.pc.my
Regards,
J. Tugauw
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