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counted close to 6,000 members.

But on 5 October 2011 our group on Facebook was traitorously hijacked by two people
we had invited to join us as group admins but who, we learned later on, had been hired to
sabotage our patriotic group by a group of sinister individuals sporting fake European
sounding nobility titles and other spurious Tausug/Sulu titles ['bestowed' and
indiscriminately distributed on Facebook] and organized by a combined team of
charlatans namely a datu (sporting a fake sultan title) and the latter's handler who is
conveniently sporting an absolutely fake 'princely' title as well.

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to "claim" Sabah for "get rich quick" reasons and are not genuine Philippine patriots.
Their motive, we have discovered, is to be able to convince Malaysians that they are
genuine Sulu royalty and pro-Philippine Sabah claim supporters in order to extract from
Malaysia (which has control of Sabah today) a premium for letting go of the Sabah claim.

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Wednesday, 20 June 2012

1878 Sabah lease contract very clear: "...rights and powers hereby leased shall
not be transferred..."

By Anne de Bretagne

Philippine Sabah Claim Forum

When the Sabah lease was signed 134 years ago -- on the 22nd of January 1878,
between the Sultanate of Sulu & Sabah and two foreign businessmen, the Sultanate
ensured that their rights to Sabah ownership were protected with this all
encompassing moral and legal clause clearly spelled out in the lease contract, to wit
(lease shown, 2nd photo):

"...but the rights and powers hereby leased shall not

be transferred to any nation, or a company of other nationality, without the consent
of Their Majesties Government."

The whole Mindanao-Moro problem compounded by Malaysia's continuing support for

the MILF right in the heart of Philippine Moro 'homeland' is without a shadow of
doubt tied to the Philippine Sabah claim.

The Malaysians know it and the Filipinos know it but Kuala Lumpur will do
everything in their power to make sure that the Philippines will not have a
moment's respite to turn around and raise the Sabah claim. And the problem is
being compounded by the fact that successive Chinese communities in Sabah have
staged their own claim over Sabah and over the last couple of decades, they have
been at it, trying to muster political support from the population of Sabah to claim
"independence" from Malaysia.

As years go and while this problem is unsettled, there will be more problems --
political and military, that are bound to arise and could very well bring the Sabah
question to the inevitable: armed conflict which it almost did back in the 60s when
the Philippines attempted to take physical control of Sabah in a covert operation
code-named "Operation Merdeka."

After 134 years, it is time to examine the contents of the lease and to bring them
out in the open. The Republic of the Philippines -- and Malaysia, cannot continue to
be blind. Sabah is either the Philippines' or it is not -- only a minitious examination
of facts done in absolute good faith can determine final legal and moral ownership.

If the parties to the claim or to the counter claim refuse -- and that includes major
counter claimant Malaysia, to adhere to the principle of good faith, I'm afraid, the
peace and order problem in Mindano will continue as the rebel forces in Mindanao
are encouraged, maintained and funded by the current occupiers of Sabah. And
unless we face this extremely sensitive Sabah question head on, there is every
chance that we will be encouraging Malaysia to invade Mindanao by proxy.