Celebrating Mourning Day 916?

The Borneo Post   July 11,2020
 
KUCH­ING: Sarawak has been cho­sen to host the Malaysia Day cel­e­bra­tion for the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year.
     Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Mul­ti­me­dia Min­is­ter Datuk Sai­fud­din Ab­dul­lah an­nounced yes­ter­day that the na­tional-level cel­e­bra­tion would be held in Sibu on Sept 16.  He said the mat­ter was de­lib­er­ated at a meet­ing jointly chaired with Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Dato Sri Dr Stephen Rundi Utom, and was re­ported to Chief Min­is­ter Datuk Pat­inggi Abang Jo­hari Tun Openg dur­ing a cour­tesy call.

     “On be­half of the fed­eral cab­i­net, we thank the Chief Min­is­ter and the peo­ple of Sarawak for will­ing­ness to host this cel­e­bra­tion.  It is very sel­dom that a state gets to host such cel­e­bra­tion for two con­sec­u­tive years, so it can be con­sid­ered as a his­tory of sorts,” he told re­porters here.

         Dr Rundi said Sarawak had ac­tu­ally ap­plied to host this year's Malaysia Day af­ter host­ing it in Kuch­ing last year. Due to the on­go­ing Covid-19 pan­demic, he ex­plained the cel­e­bra­tion would be held in strict com­pli­ance with stan­dard op­er­at­ing pro­ce­dures (SOPs) for gath­er­ings, in­clud­ing so­cial dis­tanc­ing prac­tices to pre­vent the spread of Covid-19.
        “As long as there is so­cial dis­tanc­ing, that means it is not nec­es­sar­ily lim­ited to a crowd of 250 peo­ple. For ex­am­ple, if the hall has a seat­ing ca­pac­ity of 2,000 peo­ple, we are look­ing at three quar­ters or half of that ca­pac­ity,” he ex­plained.

         Dr Rundi said Sibu was cho­sen be­cause Kuch­ing had al­ready hosted last year's cel­e­bra­tion, while Miri would host this year's Sarawak Day.

“So that is why we chose Sibu. This year, we are the host for the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive time. Maybe it would third con­sec­u­tive time af­ter this – you never know,” he said.
       Malaysia Day is one of the four main ac­tiv­i­ties for Na­tional Month this year, which be­gan with the 50th an­niver­sary of the Rukun Ne­gara on Thurs­day (July 9). The Na­tional Month and Jalur Gemi­lang Cam­paign will be launched in Putrajaya this July 26, fol­lowed by Na­tional Day cel­e­bra­tions in Kuala Lumpur on Aug 31.

        This year's theme is ‘Malaysia Pri­hatin' (Malaysia Cares), in con­nec­tion with the car­ing Malaysian at­ti­tude ir­re­spec­tive of race and re­li­gion in man­ag­ing the Covid-19 out­break.

My comments:
       September 16 means Malayan Occupation Day of Sarawak.   What are we celebrating for?   We have been plundered, exploited, oppressed, suppressed, robbed and bullied since the very day.  Isn't it ridiculous to celebrate September 16 with these pirates?  I see the whole scenario sooooooooooo ridiculous and funny.  I think all these Sarawak high ranking officials have already lost their senses.  How can you allow yourselves to celebrate with the colonial masters and imperialists who plunder, exploit, oppress, suppress, rob and  bully Sarawakians.   They enjoy prosperity at our expense.
       I hope that this will the last one.  That's it.  With the full awareness of Sarawakians, we should be prepared to vote BN-GPS out.   I hope that Sarawakians will support Parti Bumi Keyalang in quest of Sarawak Independence and Freedom.