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The Sulu Sultanate Quarrel and Wider Implications

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Mar 06, 2013
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If it weren't for many so unnecessary deaths - and the apparent Malaysian need to act tough in advance of its pending national election - the confrontation in Sabah between Malaysian authorities and supporters of the pretender to the Sultanate of Sulu, Jamalul Kiram III, might have seemed comic.

It was hardly comic this morning when Malaysia fighter jet…

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