Five Malaysian Police Killed in Disputed Borneo Region
By Samira Arabi
Morocco News Tribune
Agadir, Morocco | Malaysian authorities said that five two attackers died in a late-night clash in the Malaysia’s Sabah state.
Attackers are believed to be members of a Filipino armed faction of the Sultan of Sulu on Borneo Island, a remote corner of they claim it is their territory.
Under British and Dutch colonization, Borneo Island was carved up in the nineteenth century to be taken by and Malaysia and Indonesia upon independence. Britain agreed to independence for the tiny oil-rich sultanate of Brunei on Borneo’s west coast.
But under a pre-colonial pact between sultans, Sulu, in what would later become the Philippines, was awarded control of the northern corner of Borneo, in what would later become Malaysia, according to Reuters.