Qualla: Crown Colony of Sarawak https://qualla.com/crown-colony-of-sarawak en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/2/w/crown-colony-of-sarawak-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Crown Colony of Sarawak https://qualla.com/crown-colony-of-sarawak Crown Colony of Sarawak: Introduction https://qualla.com/crown-colony-of-sarawak/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. On December 3, 1949, a seventeen-year-old named Rosli Dhoby approached the second Governor of Sarawak during a public ceremony in Sibu. He was disguised as a student. He shook the governor's hand, then drew a kris dagger and stabbed him repeatedly. Sir Duncan Stewart died two days later in Singapore. The assassination was the most violent expression of a wound that had been open since 1946, when the last White Rajah of Sarawak ceded his private kingdom to the British Crown. That decision, passed by the Council Negri in a vote of 19 to 16, split the territory along lines of ethnicity, loyalty, and self-determination that would not heal for years.

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/2/w/crown-colony-of-sarawak-wp/w82w-crown-colony-of-sarawak-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Crown Colony of Sarawak: A Kingdom Signed Away https://qualla.com/crown-colony-of-sarawak/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Sarawak had been ruled by the Brooke family since 1841, one of history's stranger political arrangements: a British dynasty governing a Borneo territory as personal sovereigns. After the devastation of Japanese occupation during World War II, the third and last Rajah, Charles Vyn...

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