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Sabah RCI: A royal pardon rather than an inquest? -Dr S.Ramakrishnan
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- Created on Wednesday, 10 December 2014 07:00
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- Written by Dr S.Ramakrishnan
- Category: Columnist
So,
the Royal Commission of Inquiry has absolved the culprits responsible
for the organised free inflow of about 69,000 illegal immigrants and
their later inclusion in the electoral list.
The RCI did not probe into the motive
behind project IC or project Mahathir. Instead, it shifted the blame to
corrupt civil servants.
Even the ordinary man in the street and
the illegal immigrants themselves know who the culprits involved in this
fiasco are, but not the RCI. It seems unable to pinpoint them.
No civil servant would dare to openly
allow illegal immigrants into the country, if not for the powerful
political figures behind them.
Tun Mustapha of USNO lost the election
to PBS but could not accept the results. The federal government under
Mahathir Mohamad then colluded with Tun Mustapha to overthrow Pairin
Kitingan of PBS. To that end, Muslim illegal immigrants were allowed
into Sabah and registered as voters.
It is obvious who is responsible for
this treason, but the RCI does not have the moral courage and honesty to
name the culprits. Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak must have appointed the
RCI to whitewash their wrongs and absolve the wrongdoers.
On Aug 11, 2012, Datuk Seri Najib
announced the formation of the Royal Commission of Inquiry for illegal
immigrants in Sabah and its eight Terms of Reference. The announcement
was in response to the resignation of three members of parliament who
said that they were doing so due to the inaction of the federal
government over this matter.
Najib had led a parliamentary select committee in 2007 on illegal immigrants in Sabah.
Nothing came of it.
Former PM Tun Mahathir was also directly
involved and recently even justified project IC. To defend the issuance
of identity cards to Muslim illegal immigrants from the
Philippines and Indonesia, Mahathir had said: "On the basis of the
length of stay and mastering of the national language, they qualify to
be citizens of this country, and so they acquired citizenship."
He further questioned: “Why can’t the
migrants of Sabah who have all these qualifications be accepted as
citizens? The objections to them being accepted seem to be political."
In his blog posting, Mahathir claimed
that choosing not to naturalise migrants in Sabah was also racist, and
that Malaysians should accept that their fellow citizens may come from
different backgrounds.
This project IC was clearly done with
Umno’s blessing so that the political party of their choice would rule
Sabah. UMNO wanted to split and neutralise the Kadazandusun and Chinese
voters in Sabah so that they become politically weak, a game UMNO is
good at.
Project IC involved certain political
parties as well as various government agencies, including the Election
Commission of Malaysia, the National Registration Department, and the
Immigration Department which comes under the purview of the Ministry of
Home Affairs.
After six months of investigation, GE13
would be over and everything would be back to the way it was before.
Therefore, the PM should disclose the findings of the earlier PSC headed
by him, before initiating a new RCI with Terms of Reference that would
investigate who the culprits responsible for the fiasco were.
The RCI has clearly not done its job and
has let down Sabahans’ hopes of a cleaning up of their electoral
list. The RCI report is not worth the paper it is printed on; if it was,
the issue would be debated in parliament.
In West Malaysia, there are thousands of
Malaysian-born Indians and Chinese holding red ICs. After years of
attempting to obtain citizenship, they are still considered stateless.
For the slightest of reasons, they were
issued red ICs. But hundreds of thousands of Indonesian, Bangladeshi,
Pakistani and Filipino illegal immigrants are freely issued citizenship.
Unfortunately, these wicked designs jeopardise the rights and opportunities of Sabahans and all other Malaysians.
The ends cannot justify the means.
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