47 years in Malaysia – why Muruts feel strangers in their own land?


On Sunday, 2nd May 2010, DAP leaders including DAP Deputy Chairman Senator Tunku Aziz, DAP MP for Serdang, Teoh Nien Ching and DAP Sabah Assemblyman Jimmy Wong, DAP Sabah Publicity Secretary Dr. Edwin Bosie and I visited Kampong Murut, Ulu Kalabakan.

It was a long bumpy ride from Tawau to Kalabakan but worse is to come in the next stretch of the Trans-Borneo Highway, from Kalabakan to Sapulut which I have termed as the Highway Rip-off of Sabah – as a 179km permanent bitumunous road with sealed pavement turned out, after prolonged delays, into a gravel road!

The video clip is my speech asking why Muruts feel strangers in their own land while foreigners have come to regard themselves as owners of the Land Below the Wind.

  1. #1 by boh-liao on Monday, 3 May 2010 - 12:39 pm

    Yeah, sad, they hv been raped n sodomised again n again in their own land by BN, but sadly they kept voting 4 BN
    Plz EDUCATE them n empower them 2 b real bosses 2 plot their own destiny n d destiny of their children n grandchildren

  2. #2 by johnnypok on Monday, 3 May 2010 - 1:15 pm

    The state was destroyed by toon bak kut teh, and the rampage continues on until today by BN/UMNO.

    The raykat has been sold by pie ring, the so-called huguan siow, for a song.

  3. #3 by yhsiew on Monday, 3 May 2010 - 1:21 pm

    The Muruts need to be educated and informed of the true situation which they are in lest they are being marginalized again and again.

  4. #4 by lawrencejayaraj on Monday, 3 May 2010 - 1:24 pm

    visit …. http://www.kamagong.org

    A mother of 8 children received the worst medical treatment…. and she is Lun Bawang from Lawas Sarawak.

    The government had not improved the health care in Lawas infact the Government is building a HOTEL SERI MALAYSIA and not a badly needed Lawas District Hospital.

    Poor people have to borrow money from “along” to travel to Miri and Kota Kinabalu for treatment…

    YB Datuk Henry Sum Agong…. refuse to fight for the basic right for the Lun Bawang people and the people of Lawas…..

  5. #5 by dagen on Monday, 3 May 2010 - 1:26 pm

    No problem. Remember this umno will use its well known weapon:

    “W E C O M E. W E G O D. U M N O G O D. W E B R I N G H A P P I N E S S. W E B R I N G M A N Y M I L O. M A G G I. Y U M Y U M. Y O U G I V E V O T E. G O D U M N O H A P P Y. G O D W I L L G I V E M I L O. M A G G I. N O V O T E G O D G I V E N O T H I N G.”

  6. #6 by frankyapp on Monday, 3 May 2010 - 1:28 pm

    why Muruts feel strangers in their own land while foreigners have come to regard themselves as owners of the Land Below the Wind …YB Lim Kit Siang
    Well,the answer is simple.The Muruts are majority christians and ancestor/hill spirit worshippers and most of all are pretty humble and generous kind of people. Muruts are aslo great hunters and land culltivators.In view of these and their simplicity,the Umno led regime transfered most of the developed funds meant for them to so-called malays and muslims majority areas.This is where the vast majority illegals who are muslims benefited .Most important of all , these illegals through UMNO using dubious mean are now MYCARD holders and hence the core reason why they feel pretty much at home than our original ethnic muruts in the interior of Sabah. The most tragic thing is the Murut’s leaders or so-called leaders who worked hand in cheek together within UMNO/BN to cheat and swindled their own race for the past 47 years and is still continuing.

  7. #7 by k1980 on Monday, 3 May 2010 - 3:52 pm

    The Muruts did not pay attention to history. Else they would have learned how the early European settlers paid glass beads in exchange for the land of native Americans

  8. #8 by on cheng on Monday, 3 May 2010 - 9:01 pm

    Murut, Kadazan, Bajau, n other Sabahan. why complain when most of you keep giving your vote to BN?

  9. #9 by monsterball on Tuesday, 4 May 2010 - 1:06 am

    When you are a minority and UMNO B feels..Muruts are useless Malaysians…they will ignore them and treat them like wild useless animals that cannot be depended to vote for UMNO B….because the Muruts are Christians and not Muslims.
    The ever energetic Lim Kit Siang never ceased to keep educating and protecting the minorities…being side lined or bullied by UMNO B racists crooks.
    So far God has rewarded him with his son as CM in Penang.
    Lets hope God will grant all the Malaysians ……our wishes to get rid of UMNO B government soon.
    Lets see the signs from Sibu by election…where Najib cannot bribe racists and idiots…like he did in Hulu Selangor.
    Bribing will continue by Najib….and this time…to Chinese..and Chinese value educations more than money. Just watch Najib….the sly fox announces so much good news for parents..the Chinese voters….and say it again..not a election ply…but a promise long over due…this and that sh..t excuses.
    Chinese are smart voters.
    Can they be bought with money?
    Like Anwar said…take all the money and vote for DAP.
    Will they listen to good advises?
    Does the Muruts understand what LKS said to them?
    All will be revealed at Sibu’s by-election soon.

  10. #10 by chengho on Tuesday, 4 May 2010 - 9:38 pm

    uncle Monsterball,
    how are you sir?
    “So far God has rewarded him with his son as CM in Penang…” Dap is a father and son party not to mention betty the 1st lady of penang and malacca state assembly but live in penang
    “Does the Muruts understand what LKS said to them?
    All will be revealed at Sibu’s by-election soon..” so did uncle Kit speak in murut or foochow or in bahasa malaysia ?

  11. #11 by monsterball on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 - 12:25 am

    Chengho…I am well.Thank you.
    Yes…Chengho……God trully rewarded LKS. Remember…no bribes..to beat Tsu Koon and throw him out of Penang with voters supporting LGE.
    It is God’s reward…because Gerakan had 18 years management ..with UMNO B full backings….then suddenly…Malaysians throw Tsu Koon out.
    hi Chengho….once again….glad to see you back.
    Never listen to bad advises from anyone…telling you to stay away. Glad you have a mind of your own……and before 13th GE arrive……we hope to convince you to vote for CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT.
    So far….still the same…no progress. Why so….Chengho?
    Lim Kit Siang spoke in the National language…and not foochow.
    The video is there for you to hear and see.

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