pix 1. Rentaps coffin .Salang and others at Rentaps tomb
SIBU: Sarawak nationalist Rentap’s sheer determination to survive and win in the numerous fights against the Brooke regime in the late 1850s should be emulated by the rural folk in their own fight, which is to have a better standard of living.
1Malaysia Sarawak Advisory Council chairman Datuk Joseph Salang said besides being an illiterate, Rentap had to fight the blazing guns and cannonballs of the Brooke force until he was finally defeated in 1861.
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