Sabah Experience – What a mockery?
USNO managed to capture 16 seats, PBS 25, Pasok 1 and Berjaya was left with 6. After the annulment of the late night swearing-in of Tun Mustapha at the Istana, PBS formed the government. Riots broke out soon after.
The reasons for the riots and subsequent curfews in Kota Kinabalu was simple and straight-forward, PBS and USNO had a joint undertaking to topple Berjaya. When PBS had sufficient seats to form a government, they left USNO out of the equation. This angered the USNO supporters who took to the streets. This started when someone painted 2 crucifixes in red at the state mosque in Sembulan.
A subsequent march from the mosque a few days later was stopped by the police at Karamunsing for several hours. This led to the burning of many of the Karamunsing warehouses.
