FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — The veil over the audacious theft of a state from under the noses of its citizens is slowly being lifted two decades after after the deed was done.

Confidential cables from the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur to Washington acknowledging the chicanery have thrown more light on how the proud, independent-minded people of Sabah were silenced through the ballot box by a slight of hand engineered by their own government. Read more in The Bamboo Desk.