Likewise, the urban areas which voted for the opposition last time round are now being saturated with bribes and projects, as BN tries to win them back.īut, things are not reported in this way in Sarawak. One wonders how much more such people could be punished than they have already been for their obedience? In a less criminal environment such communities could take note that, to the contrary in Baram, for example, it has been the squeaky wheel which has received the oil.įollowing the Baram community’s tenacious campaign to fight off the planned dam, Satem chose a week before the election to announce its cancellation. They will be punished by neglect, whilst obedient neighbours will be rewarded with arbitrary ‘projects’. One might ask why does Satem bother with all this fuss and bother, since he and his party already have Sarawak so trussed up? On the ground local communities without running water are telling reporters that they have to vote for BN, because their headman (paid by the government) has told them that if they do not they will have no hope of any assistance at all over the next five years. It is occupying the RELA (state volunteer force) building in Kuching, Sarawak Report is informed. He has the entire apparatus of the state at his disposal, as well of course, including a fleet of helicopters and airplanes appropriated for party political use and also at Santubong, of course, a strong room with a huge stash of money, currently being distributed to buy votes.Īfter all, Sarawak is a criminal regime and it never occurs to criminals to play fair or by the rules, let alone election law.Īway from this ‘Bond villain’-style election headquarters, the rest of the BN party apparatus is housed in another public building at the expense of the state. This state election has long been regarded as a crucial opportunity to win back political capital by Najib and it has been closely planned for months, no expense spared.įor this reason a vast, modern election fighting machine has been transported into Santubong, say insiders, complete with computer banks, white boards, speaker systems, video screens and a dedicated staff, transforming the Chief Minister’s private home into the election HQ.Īdenan’s house in Santubong has been converted into an election HQ stronghold in the manner of a Bond villain Neither has he even changed any of the personnel. Operation SantubongĪt the centre of this particular well oiled and unbelievably well-funded election operation is Santubong, the private home of the new Chief Minister Adenan Satem, who was Taib’s college friend, brother in law and hand-picked successor and who has not changed a single fundamental in the running of the state. The fact that this ‘democratically elected’ Malaysian government is now by far the oldest ‘elected’ regime in the world, having achieved continuous rule since independence, is a clear indicator of just what a sham it all is. Malaysia goes through the parody of maintaining elections and a sham state parliament, which sits 8 days twice a year – mostly taken up in ceremony and the ritual throwing out of opposition members – and now, once again, it is repeating the parody of an election. With so much wealth and so few native people, all of whom have been kept deliberately poor and deliberately in ignorance of how they have missed out on their opportunity to become comfortably off, it has not been hard to keep an iron grip on the population. Taib then proceeded to strip out the Borneo Jungle and pocketed the proceeds, in collaboration with the same handful of timber cronies, who are now funding and supporting his handpicked successor Adenan Satem in this election – these same criminal timber tycoons are even standing in a good number of the seats for good measure. Taib and his uncle predecessor, who pretended that they were running an independent local party PBB, cut a significant deal, which was to allow the federal government to appropriate all of the state’s rich oil reserves, as long as they could control all the timber and other land resources of the state.
The Mahud family got their hands on the levers of power early after independence, thanks to a blatantly manufactured ‘state of emergency’ called by the Malaysian federal government, who saw the importance of getting a client leader into position in place of the Dayak majority representative of the time.
The reason? Sarawak is one of the richest corners of the globe in terms of resource extraction – a vast wilderness of wealth, with a weak population base of only two and a half million people. Sarawak Malaysia is an example of one of the world’s extreme criminal kleptocracies.
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