Why the name change for Sarawak independence day, asks opposition party


Desmond Davidson

President of Sarawak People’s Aspiration Party Lina Soo questions the Sarawak government's motive in omitting the word "Independence" from the title of the July 22 state holiday. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 21, 2021.

THE leader of a Sarawak pro-independence political party wants the state government to explain why Sarawak Independence Day on July 22 is now just called Sarawak Day.

Lina Soo, president of Sarawak People’s Aspiration Party said the people deserve an explanation as to why the state’s independence, gained when the last colonial British governor Alexander Waddell left the state on that particular date in 1963, isn’t acknowledged.


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