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The southern Philippine-based Islamic sultanate once controlled parts of Borneo, including the site of the stand-off, and its heirs have been receiving a nominal yearly compensation package from Malaysia under a long-standing agreement for possession of Sabah.
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Misuari
supports Sulu's royal army
MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari |
MANILA – Moro National Liberation Front
(MNLF) founding chairman Nur Misuari has extended his support to the Filipinos
who crossed to the Malaysian state of Sabah to claim the land.
Misuari said the claimants, some 400 people
who have been holed up in the Malaysian territory since last week, are the
rightful heirs to the land.
"May karapatan yan. Ang sulu, iyung
Sultanate of Sulu ay may-ari ng North Borneo," said Misuari, also the
former governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
"Sila ang nagke-claim, ang legitimate
na claimants is my family, my clan from my father's side. Ang importante ay
somebody or a group representing the Bangsamoro people, the Tausugs, ay sila ay
mag-claim ng ownership."
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The southern Philippine-based Islamic sultanate once controlled parts of Borneo, including the site of the stand-off, and its heirs have been receiving a nominal yearly compensation package from Malaysia under a long-standing agreement for possession of Sabah.
Sultan Jamalul Kiram said he was prompted
to send the group to Sabah after the sultanate was left out of a framework
agreement sealed in October between Manila and Filipino Muslim rebels, which
paves the way for an autonomous area in the southern Philippines that is home
to the Muslim minority of the largely-Christian nation.
The sultanate's spokesman, Abraham
Idjirani, later said the sultan's brother Raja Muda Abimuddin Kiram, who led
the group to Sabah, had told him via telephone that the party was preparing to
stay.
Misuari said Jamalul Kiram, in a summit
held in Davao last October in response to the framework agreement, had declared
his support to pursue their Sabah claim.
The peace deal, which was brokered by
Malaysia, aims at establishing the "Bangsamoro" region. Misuari's
group believes Malaysia backed the peace deal to prevent a renewed claim on
Sabah.
Misuari explained that Sabah was given to
his great grandfather Panglima Mahabassal Elidji by the sultan of Brunei Darussalam,
which once owned the land.
The sultanate later leased Sabah to the
British North Borneo Company, which then transferred the territory to Malaysia.
– (with Agence
France-Presse)
click related article:
* PRINCESS KIRAM CALLS ANEW FOR SOBRIETY IN SULU
* Govt urged to use Bangsamoro peace deal to address Sabah claim
* http://www.malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/newscommentaries/54648-malaysia-invaded-the-sultans-sabah-swing
click related article:
* PRINCESS KIRAM CALLS ANEW FOR SOBRIETY IN SULU
* Govt urged to use Bangsamoro peace deal to address Sabah claim
* http://www.malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/newscommentaries/54648-malaysia-invaded-the-sultans-sabah-swing
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