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  • Kiram is dead

    Good riddance
    Sulu sultan who claimed Sabah dies
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    Sunday, October 20, 2013

    MANILA (Updated) -- Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, whose armed followers invaded a vast Malaysian region that left dozens of people dead earlier this year, died of multiple organ failure on Sunday at the age of 75.

    Jacel Kiram-Hasan, the sultan's daughter, said in a radio interview that her father had been battling kidney problems.

    She said Kiram was confined at the Philippine Heart Center on Thursday and died at 4 a.m. of Sunday due to "organ failure."

    Kiram's wife, Fatima Celia, said before her husband died, he ordered his family and followers to continue laying claim to Sabah state in Malaysia.

    The sultan, who is set to be buried in his hometown, Maimbung, in Sulu, had eight children with two wives and will likely be replaced by his younger brother, Esmail Kiram II, in a succession often marred in the past by clan infighting and claims by fake descendants of the once-powerful Muslim royalty.
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    In this February 26, 2013 file photo, Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III answers questions from reporters at his house in suburban Taguig, south of Manila. (AP Photo)


    Kiram’s Muslim sultanate, although largely forgotten and dismissed as a vestige from a bygone era, stirred up a security crisis in Malaysia in February this year when his younger brother and about 200 followers, some armed, barged in Lahud Datu, Sabah.

    Malaysia sent ground troops and launched airstrikes that resulted in a standoff that killed dozens of people. [Read: Sabah standoff over; 3 die in assault

    The Kirams claim Sabah has belonged to their sultanate for centuries and was only leased to Malaysia, which they say pays them a paltry annual rent.

    However, Malaysian officials contend that the payments are part of an arrangement under which the sultanate has ceded the 74,000 square kilometers (28,000 square miles) of Sabah territory to their country.

    The Kiram sultanate, which emerged in the 1400s, built a legend for its wide influence at the time and its feared Tausug warriors. Chinese and European leaders once sent vassals to pay homage to their powerful forebears, sultanate spokesman Abraham Idjirani said. The Sulu sultanate preceded both the Philippine republic and Malaysia by centuries.

    But overrun by history, the Kirams now carry royal titles and nothing much else. They, however, still have hundreds of followers in Sulu and nearby southern provinces.

    "I'm the poorest sultan in the world," an ailing Kiram said in an interview in March at his rundown residence in a Muslim village in Manila. (AP/PNA/Sunnex)
    To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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    Unfortunately, there is not shortage of other cranks to take up the crackpot.

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      Phl may ask higher compensation for Sabah from Malaysia
      (philstar.com) | Updated October 22, 2013 - 9:12am

      Photo from sabah.edu.my

      MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - The Philippines may seek additional compensation from Malaysia for Sabah, a Malaysian-controlled territory.

      President Benigno Aquino III said today that this was one of the "avenues" being studied in relation to the Sabah claim by the Philippine government.

      At least four options had been submitted by the Department of Justice, but no final decision had been made, Aquino said.

      Justice Secretary Leila de Lima was exploring on four potential avenues and one of them was higher compensation, he said.

      "Unfortunately, all three of them (potential avenues) are non- starters," Aquino said without elaborating.

      The President in March ordered the review of the territorial claim to Sabah after armed followers of self-proclaimed Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III went to Lahud Datu in Sabah in February that resulted in a deadly clash with Malaysian police and army.
      Headlines ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1

      Kiram died Sunday of multiple organ failure. He reportedly asked his family to reclaim Sabah before he passed away.
      Sabah claim alive? Its bones are in Noy closet
      POSTSCRIPT By Federico D. Pascual Jr. (The Philippine Star) | Updated October 22, 2013 - 12:00am
      http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2013...are-noy-closet

      SKELETONS: Behind the brave front of the Kiram family that the Philippine claim to Sabah is alive despite the death last Sunday of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III is the sad reality that the generations-old claim is dead, its skeleton locked in the closet of Malacañang.

      The usual Palace spokeswoman, not wanting to roil further the political waters around Sabah (North Borneo), said the claim was still alive despite the Sultan’s demise, and was being “studied” per order of President Noynoy Aquino.

      What she did not say was that the President could not have been pressing the claim because he has been cozying up to Malaysia, which in 1963 unilaterally annexed into its federation the resource-rich North Borneo that it has been leasing — until now — from the sultanate at a yearly rental of 5,300 ringgits (P73,000!).

      * * *

      MILF DEAL: How could President Aquino displease his Malaysian friends when Kuala Lumpur has been hosting the “peace” talks between Malacañang and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front claiming to represent the Filipino-Muslim population?

      Over the objections of conscientious groups, Malaysia has insisted on staying in its pivotal position of “facilitator” in the bargaining for the carving out for the MILF a Bangsamoro state in Muslim Mindanao.
      Opinion ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1

      The sealing of the MILF deal, assuming it can hurdle the political and constitutional obstacles, is expected to have the effect of the Sabah claim being dropped — or settled to the sovereign satisfaction of Malaysia and the proprietary satisfaction of the sultan’s heirs.

      * * *

      POOR KIRAM: And how could Aquino, hungry for foreign investments, ignore the growing presence of Malaysian business interests in the Philippines and their promised involvement in the economic development of Mindanao?

      In contrast, what can the family of the late Sultan Jamalul Kiram III — who had bemoaned his being the poorest sultan in the world — offer President Aquino by way of advancing peace and progress in Southern Philippines?

      Besides, how could Kiram III have won Aquino’s sympathy for the sultanate’s property claims to Sabah when he was associated with former President Gloria Arroyo, Aquino’s hate-object? The late sultan was Sabah affairs adviser to her and ran in her 2004 senatorial ticket.

      * * *

      NEW SULTAN: With the sultan’s death, a family problem looms on the matter of succession and forging a united front in addressing the Sabah claim.

      Although Esmail Kiram II, Kiram’s oldest surviving brother, is expected to be crowned next sultan, there are family members who prefer his other brother Raja Muda (crown prince) Agbimuddin Kiram who led followers in fighting Malaysian forces bombing them out of their ancestral home in the coastal village of Lahad Datu in Sabah.

      On contentious issues, the collective decision of the Ruma Bechara, a sort of council of elders/advisers, will be important. In the interim of mourning when no sultan is chosen yet, the council’s word will normally be controlling.

      * * *

      THE HEIRS: Some descendants of the nine recognized heirs of the original sultan might also come forward to protect their hereditary interests.

      The heirs — all members of Sulu royalty and nobility — were identified in the 1939 ruling of Chief Justice C. F. C. Macaskie of the High Court of North Borneo with then Dayang-Dayang (Princess) Hadji Piandao holding the major 3/8 share. (Dayang-Dayang, an only child, was childless.)

      The other heirs included Princess Tarhata Kiram and Princess Sakinur-In Kiram, 3/16 share each; Mora Napsa, Sultan Esmail Kiram, Datu Punjungan, Sitti Mariam, Sitti Jahara and Sitti Rada, 1/24 each.

      All the principal heirs have died, and there are now probably a thousand heirs of the heirs.

      Then there is the probability that Malaysian interests, with their superior resources, will attempt to muddle the succession question to weaken the sultanate’s case.

      * * *

      NOY’S LEANINGS?: In his decrees issued before he died last Sunday, the 75-year-old Kiram III expressed his desire to keep the family united and for the sultanate to continue what it had started.

      This was widely taken to mean pursuing its claim to Sabah, and impliedly fighting for the homeland if necessary.

      The Tausugs of the Sulu area, many of them warriors of the Moro National Liberation Front chaired by OIC-recognized Nur Misuari, may be a fierce force to contend with on the ground, but Malacañang’s cooperation is pivotal at the negotiating table.

      What President Aquino wants and for whom his heart throbs is crucial.

      * * *
      Brunei disputes ever granting Sulu anything in the first place
      Sulu Sultan waives what ever rights he thought he had to British
      Spain waives all claims
      America/UK set the borders - acknowledging the UK is in charge of Sabah
      Territory becomes crown colony
      UK holds commission finds area wishes to join Malaysia
      UN holds commission finds area wishes to join Malaysia
      World recognizes this
      ?????
      Last edited by troung; 25 Oct 13,, 00:31.
      To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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