COMMENT | Have you watched the “Men Against Fire” episode in “Black Mirror”, the British anthology television series set in near-future dystopias with sci-fi technology? If you haven’t, check it out and come back to this piece.

That episode tells the story of men in uniform who hunt "roaches" (pale, snarling, humanoid monsters), believing that they are saving their community from an evil threat.

Later it was revealed that these men had a type of implant which altered their senses to show people of other ethnic groups as inhuman "roaches" – all done so that the soldiers could kill without hesitation and commit genocide without remorse.

I’m bringing this up because of what’s happening in Sabah. On June 4, more than 200 houses belonging to the Bajau Laut community in seven islands were...