Word: sabah
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...government says it had a valid reason to arrest Kitingan, but the free Far East press and human rights groups such as Asia Watch believe he and possibly his brother, the chief minister of their native Sabah, to be political prisoners...
Kitingan was attempting to institute broad political and social reforms in his native Malaysian state of Sabah, according to Asia Watch...
...State of Sabah...
...Sabah, once a British colony, joined with mainland Malaysia in 1963 to form a coalition government known as the National Front...
...Sabah joined the coalition under a 20-point agreement that gave it some degree of autonomy over such areas as language, education, religion and finance, according the Far East Economic Review, a magazine which focuses on economic and related issues of that region...