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'Stop blaming my father for Sabah crisis. He's been dead for 23 years, ' Marcos Jr. says
By:
Veronica Uy, InterAksyon.com
March 22, 2013 2:54 PM
InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5
The son and namesake of Ferdinand E. Marcos said the Aquino administration has failed to handle the Sabah dispute properly, especially after officials blamed his father for the crisis.
“They have laid the blame at my father’s door. My father has been dead for 23 years. Yan naman ang gawain nila (That’s what they are used to doing),” Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. told reporters at the sidelines of the closing ceremony of a German government-sponsored decentralization program.
His father planned a secret military mission called Jabidah (beautiful woman) to retake Sabah but it ended in a 1968 massacre on Corregidor island, where they were being trained for the operation.
“The government has forgotten its fundamental function to serve and protect its citizens. It has failed to protect its citizens (in this case). Whatever the reason for the uprising, Filipinos have been killed,” Marcos said.
“They should’ve immediately negotiated with the Malaysian government to stop the shooting. They haven’t done that. Instead, they are investigating a conspiracy that has not been proven to exist,” he said.
‘Sultan was correct’
Marcos approved of the Sultan of Sulu sending his relatives and followers to reclaim the state from Malaysia.
“The Sultan’s method to make the claim is the basis of our claim to Sabah. To say that the Sultan was wrong in its action is to go contrary to the claim,” he said.
Marcos also scored the government for its belated decision to examine this claim and the issues that complicate it.
“The actions undertaken were too little, too late. They missed the opportunity to push forward the claim, and protest the actions against our nationals,” he said.
“There has been an absence of policy for the first month. They do not understand the issue. They have no policy,” he said.
And the government’s inaction has “most decidedly weakened” the Philippine claim. “It undermined the very reason that we have to put forward on the claim,” he said.
'Stop blaming my father for Sabah crisis. He's been dead for 23 years, ' Marcos Jr. says - InterAksyon.com