Until 1930’s, the White Rajahs were still deploying their headhunting army in punitive expeditions. The existence of this army had forced the indigenous people to fight among themselves.
It was the Third Rajahs who curtailed the use of his headhunting troops. He must have felt the world’s civilized communities did not approve of Sarawak’s barbaric and shameful national policy. Suddenly, the headhunters had lost their jobs. By the 1950’s the warriors from the conflicting sides were dying of old age not in battles.
Here we have a headline to remind us of what took place during the reign of the barbarous tyrants. It is a newspaper report on the demise of a member of the Brooke militias. The guy had collected 26 skulls and he wanted all his war trophies be buried with him.
