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MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court junked on Thursday, April 11 a petition asking the Court to compel the government to elevate the issue of the Sabah standoff to an international tribunal.
The SC dismissed the petition for mandamus filed by businessman Louis Biraogo, saying the High Court has no jurisdiction over foreign affairs. Mandamus is a writ ordering a lower court, an agency or a public official to perform a duty.
“[The] Biraogo petition regarding Sabah denied because it falls exclusively within foreign affairs and thus exclusively within executive branch and not subject to mandamus,” SC public information office chief Theodore Te said.
Biraogo said the Department of Foreign Affairs should ask the International Court of Justice to resolve the territorial dispute over Sabah, a Malaysian-controlled state.
In his petition, Biraogo said the British government “wrongly assumed” that North Borneo (now known as Sabah) belonged to them. The British government, he said, then handed over North Borneo or Sabah to Malaysia.
Biraogo’s petition was filed as tension between Malaysian authorities and followers of Sultanate Sulu Jamalul Kiram III escalated.
A total of 7,522 Filipinos have fled Sabah since hostilities erupted between the two forces. – Rappler.com
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