Rights activist prods lawmaker to follow-up on referendum call
Rights activist and Star president Lina Soo says the Sarawak people are politically mature and ready to make decisions on sovereignty. – November 8, 2019.
SARAWAK rights activist Lina Soo has told Batu Kitang assemblyman Lo Khere Chiang “to put his words where his mouth is” by tabling a motion in the legislative assembly for a Sarawak Independence Referendum Ordinance. Soo, an advocate of secession from the Malaysian federation, said the people of Sarawak wanted to exercise their right to self-determination.
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