KOTA KINABALU: The intrusion in Lahad Datu had nothing to do
with the claim on Sabah by the self-proclaimed sultan of Sulu but was the work
of terrorists who tried to undermine the security of the country, particularly
in Sabah, stressed Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman.
He was
responding to a question by Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin (PKR-Klias) at the State
Assembly sitting here today.
Lajim
had asked whether it was true that the intrusion was related to a territorial
claim on Sabah by the so-called sultan, and who were the masterminds behind the
episode.
Musa,
referring to a book by the Federal Attorney-General entitled, 'Putting to rest
the claim to Sabah by self-proclaimed sultanate of Sulu', said Sabah became an
inherent part of Malaysia based on two premises.
Firstly,
that the Sulu sultan had completely and irrevocably ceded Sabah, save for the
right to receive an annual cession money.
Secondly,
that any claim or right to Sabah that might have carried some legal emphasis
prior to Sabah's independence from being a British colony in September 1963 had
been rendered null and void by the people's decision of self-determination
through a referendum carried out by the Cobbold Commission and another
referendum by the United Nations in 1962/1963, he said.
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