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Singapore gets Pulau Batu Puteh (Pedra Branca)

The International Court of Justice here today ruled Singapore has sovereignty over Pulau Batu Puteh while Malaysia owns Middle Rocks, and South Ledge belongs to the state in whose territorial waters it is located.

We loose, Singapore will extend her maritime boundary and probably control of the Johor Straits. Are they going to charge a toll? Send their new attack warships to patrol it? Setting radar defense and air to air missile? Incorporate this into their ‘Forward Defence’ strategy? Ah!!!… Let the Singaporeans eat that rock la!

Here’s some interesting trivia.

The person representing Malaysia at trial was Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, whose father, Sir Hersch, was a Jewish international lawyer, and heavily involved with the founding of Israel. Malaysia meanwhile does not even recognize the state of Israel! Malaysia now gets on their knees and turn to a Zionist professor’s son to win them land…. Malaysia Boleh!

A truly national embarrassment on the international stage by a bunch of incompetent, incredulous and half-baked Malaysian legal team-members. Go to Jeff Ooi’s Screenshot for the detailed analysis of our stupid Malaysian lawyers’ performance at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague.

Sovereignty over Middle Rocks and South Ledge
Press Release from ICJ

Malaysia claims that the two maritime features have always been under Johor/Malaysian sovereignty while Singapore’s position is that sovereignty over the features goes together with sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh.

With respect to Middle Rocks, the Court observes that the particular circumstances which led it to find that sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh rests with Singapore clearly do not apply to Middle Rocks. It therefore finds that original title to Middle Rocks should remain with Malaysia as the successor to the Sultanate of Johor.

As for South Ledge, the Court notes that this low-tide elevation falls within the apparently overlapping territorial waters generated by Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh and by Middle Rocks. Recalling that it has not been mandated by the Parties to draw the line of delimitation with respect to their territorial waters in the area, the Court concludes that sovereignty over South Ledge belongs to the State in the territorial waters of which it is located.

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