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BETWEEN 1881 and 1941, Sabah, then known as North Borneo, was under the London-based British North Borneo Chartered Company's administration.
The locals were unhappy due to alleged exploitation and one man that stood up and led a rebellion against British rule was Datu Paduka Muhammad Salleh better known as Mat Salleh. To the British, he was a rebel but to locals, he was a warrior. He was killed in a gun battle with the British police on Feb 1, 1900.
But in the local lingo mat sallehs means whites they don't refer to the malays. Malays or more specifically the ah beng malays are called mat rempits.
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