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FAC News - Friday, October 25, 2002 8:29 AM More on
On Yesterday, Ali, a police officer, wrote a letter to Malaysiakini called “We were in Moroland” reinforcing the allegation. In his letter, Ali said: I read Eric Mudasi’s letter “No smoke without fire in terror links” (below) with some pungency. I am not sure what he actually knows, strangely it was somewhat close to reality. I need to be careful about what I say as I am still a serving officer with the Royal Malaysian Police. In the 1970s, I was part of a 15-man specially selected unit attached loosely with the police force then but reporting to Mindef directly. The unit members were mostly Muslims but a few were non-Muslims who were recruited because of their expertise. They came from the army, navy, police field force and a few from elsewhere. Our primary role was to assist Moro separatists by providing them training especially on how to use guns, make home-made bombs, set up ambush, fighting tactics and to organise and operate as a cohesive unit. We did supply weapons, money and shelter for the fighters when things got too hot ‘there’. We used to go across in the night in six-man teams by boats for a two-month ‘tour’. My unit was headed by a senior civil servant whose name I am not at liberty to disclose save to say that he is now a comfortable Umno politician. I understood
the operation to help these friends there have been ongoing since
the 1970s. However, we were faced with several problems. Our friends,
whose names I cannot disclose, were unprincipled and undisciplined,
took advice when it suited them, and were certainly very happy to
take money from us. There was genuine fear among us that this lot
would be a liability to The whole operation was toned down when Hussein Onn became prime minister in 1976 but was later stepped up again only to be shut down completely in 1985. I am not aware of any further operations since then. I am not sure
if the assistance was given, as Eric Mudasi said, to distract attention from claims over And this is
Eric Mudasi’s letter to Malaysiakini on
In response
to “Al-Qaeda has finances in When Indonesian forces which intruded into Malaysian territory were soundly dealt with by Malaysian and Commonwealth forces. An allegedly CIA-sponsored coup conducted by Suharto, which eventually brought down Sukarno, also played a pivotal role in ending the hostilities. Then when the
British Far East Land Forces withdrew, the Filipino regime at that
time was quite vocal in its demand for the state of For self-preservation
and in order to protect a very fragile economy, the Malaysian government
was believed to have encouraged the Moro separatists in the southern
The alleged front man for this exercise was none other then the ‘infamous’ Tun Datu Mustapha, then Sabah’s Chief Minister, who was a Muslim and had extended family in the southern Philippines. Similar incidents
have occurred the world over. More recently,
the Pakistani regime’s support for the Taliban through supply of
arms and training neutralised a very hostile
and porous border in the At that time
huge resource were being expended on military hardware and personnel
by components of the Malaysian Armed Forces. For instance, the Rajang
Area Security Command (Rascom) in Hence with
financing by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s Covert operations
were conducted and gun running was rife. Malaysian special
forces were alleged to have clandestinely conducted training
for the Moro separatists in established camps in In southern
As a direct
result, It was in fact much later that the Malaysian authorities realised that to help Pulo would be detrimental to the fight against communists. So, they ceased helping Pulo. Malaysian troops in the frontline areas were instructed not to engage the Pulo fighters, instead they were to direct them back into Thai territory. Those who say
there were no bombings in State-wide
elections were called for the second time, and it was during this
period that a lot of bombs were set off, especially in Kota Kinabalu. The hand of the Moro separatists was seen in this
as there were thousands of displaced Muslims from the southern This was reported by independent election observers who were monitoring the elections at the time. Disaster was averted by excellent crisis management by then deputy prime minister, Musa Hitam who ordered the deployment of a massive number of troops from the peninsular, in full battle order in a deliberate show of force, to deter those intent on intimidating the local electorate. That the Malaysian government had ties with these extremist organisations is well known. It helped nurture these organisations which, unfortunately, have now become a liability. Only when your
'rocks' are held over a fire, do you deny negating history. Unfortunately
for our political masters, the world knows. This is one taint that
will not come off hence Reference sites: http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/nations/0,8782,100233,00.html http://www.jcpa.org/jl/jl436.htm http://call.army.mil/fmso/FMSOPUBS/ISSUES/sword.htm http://mnlf.net/Speech%20OIC_28th_ICFM%20Bamako%20June%202001.htm http://army.mod.gov.my/darurat/
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