thats where the naked man on the road last week was lying....maybe he is a decendant.......
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Terrorist trouble in Malaysia
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thats where the naked man on the road last week was lying....maybe he is a decendant.......
I beg to differ. A SIA plane is more likely to be targetted for hijacking in mid-air.
Sabah further away from Singapore?
[h=1]KL sends more troops to Sabah[/h]By Jaime Laude (The Philippine Star) | Updated March 5, 2013 - 12:00am
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Villagers leave their homes in Semporna, Sabah yesterday, a day after armed clashes between followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and Malaysian police. AP
MANILA, Philippines - As violence spread in Sabah, Malaysia yesterday deployed armored vehicles and hundreds of additional troops to neutralize armed followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III in the country’s bloodiest security emergency in years.
The two governments confirmed yesterday that 11 more Filipinos and six Malaysian security forces were killed over the weekend in the town of Semporna near Lahad Datu, where 12 of Kiram’s supporters were earlier slain.
Sabah villagers fled as the skirmishes shocked Malaysians unaccustomed to such violence in their country, which borders insurgency-plagued southern provinces in the Philippines and Thailand.
Kiram’s more than 200 supporters, some bearing rifles, slipped past naval patrols early last month, landed in the coastal village of Lahad Datu and insisted the territory was theirs.
Public attention focused yesterday on how to minimize casualties while apprehending the sultan’s men suspected to have encroached on two other districts within 300 kilometers of Lahad Datu.
“The situation is under control now,” Sabah police chief Hamza Taib said. “There will be cooperation” between the military and the police, he said.
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He declined to elaborate on specific strategies or on a call by former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad for lethal action.
“There is no way out other than launching a counter-attack to eliminate” the intruders, Malaysia’s national news agency Bernama quoted Mahathir as saying Sunday. “Although many of them will be killed, this cannot be avoided because they had attacked Sabah, and not the other way around.”
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak declared over the weekend that security forces were authorized to “take any action deemed necessary.” The Philippines requested Malaysia to exercise maximum tolerance.
“An additional two army battalions have been dispatched to Sabah,” Najib was quoted by Bernama as saying.
“We continue to ask them that life is a better option than death,” presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda told ABS-CBN TV. “These casualties, the wounded, the fatalities, are all the product of what we have been trying to avoid, the bloodshed.”
There were reports of increased activities by armed civilians in coastal and mountainous areas of Tawau, Semporna, Kunak, Lahad Datu and Sandakan.
“Residents from these areas are very restless and most of them are seen leaving for safer areas. Malaysian police and army troops are now deployed in these places,” a source said.
A cargo plane that landed in Lahad Datu was seen unloading armored vehicles.
A senior Malaysian Army commander has admitted they are facing highly skilled combatants.
The Malaysian army commander was referring to the group of Kiram’s brother Agbimuddin, who remains in his dugout in Lahad Datu despite last Friday’s assault by Malaysian forces.
Senior Filipino security officials said the problem might worsen if not properly handled by Malaysia.
In Semporna, dead gunmen lay in the streets as villagers fled rising violence.
A total of 27 people have been reported killed after two deadly shootouts in Sabah.
An AFP reporter in Semporna saw the corpses of three suspected gunmen with gunshots wounds, covered in flies and a foul stench as dozens of people were packing up their belongings and fleeing the town. Residents said the bodies were gunmen killed by police.
“Our peaceful town has become a nightmare to live in,” Julasri Yaakob, 38, said as he heaved a bag full of clothes onto a lorry, his young daughter next to him.
“We are moving out because these are uncertain times. We heard the gunshots. My children are afraid,” he said.
The armed intrusion has deeply embarrassed Najib – who must call elections by June – by exposing lax border security and fueling perceptions of lawlessness and huge illegal immigration in Sabah.
The exact identities of the gunmen remain a mystery, but Malaysian armed forces chief Zulkifeli Zin told a news conference in Sabah on Sunday that they appeared to have guerrilla combat experience.
Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have called for calm, saying the situation is under control, but have come under fire from the political opposition over the police deaths.
While schools, stores and government offices were closed in Semporna, there was little sign of a heavy security presence in the town despite the recent clashes and fleeing population.
Sabah has seen previous smaller-scale cross-border raids from Islamic militants and other bandits from the Philippines.
Semporna taken?
In Manila, supporters of Kiram said Semporna is now under the control of the Sultanate’s forces.
A Tausug gunman in Sabah relayed a message to the sultanate that the Filipinos had taken over police stations and begun rounding up policemen and local officials in the area.
“This report coming from Sabah is still unconfirmed but was sent by people who are now in the area,” a top official of the Moro National Liberation Front told The STAR.
“Moro supporters of Sultan Kiram take over control Semporna, killed 100 police and captured five Malaysian police officers... 100 police armaments were taken by Moro from KIA ( killed in action) Malaysian police.. Up to this time they took control of Semporna and manning the captured police station,” the message read.
Reports also said hundreds of detained Filipinos in Semporna had been freed and issued firearms seized from the Malaysian police.
In an interview with dzMM broadcaster Noli de Castro, Kiram said he has lost contact with his brother Agbimuddin because Malaysian authorities had shut down cell sites in the area.
Kiram’s supporters, mostly Tausugs, killed a group of policemen reportedly in retaliation for the killing of a Muslim religious leader and his children recently.
Abraham Idjirani, spokesman of the sultanate, told reporters in Taguig City Sunday that Malaysian police raided the house of Imam Maas and killed him and his sons after the imam refused to reveal the whereabouts of Sultan Alepiuya Kiram, a brother of Jamalul.
“When the police failed to locate the brother of Sultan Jumalul they fired at the house of Imam Maas, a respected priest in the village,” he said.
Idjirani said the killing enraged Filipinos who attacked the police and military headquarters in the area.
Jamalul’s daughter Princess Jacel Kiram said the hostilities in Semporna have spread to other areas in Sabah and that reinforcements from Tawi-Tawi, Basilan, Sulu and Zamboanga have already arrived.
Idjirani said they have been instructed by the Sultan to “take care of the captives as they will be presented to an international body to answer for the killing of innocent people.”
PNP on alert
Meanwhile, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said it is monitoring movements of followers and potential supporters of Kiram to prevent them from crossing over to Sabah and reinforcing the sultan’s armed groups.
PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima has instructed all regional directors and ground commanders to monitor the movement of Kiram’s backers, said PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Generoso Cerbo Jr.
Cerbo clarified that the monitoring is not only focused on the Muslim community.
“Let’s see if there will be developments in security issues and concerns in their areas with respect to the development in Sabah. As of now, there’s none,” Cerbo pointed out. “We see no untoward incidents related to the Sabah issue. We want this matter to be resolved peacefully.”
Cerbo said the PNP is optimistic the matter would eventually be resolved peacefully.
He noted that the PNP has put in place measures to prevent Kiram’s sympathizers from making moves that would aggravate the situation.
Cerbo said the PNP is closely coordinating with the Philippine Coast Guard and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to prevent Kiram’s sympathizers in Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and the Zamboanga peninsula from crossing the Sulu Sea.
“We have enough police forces and from all indications, there’s still no need for additional deployment of police forces,” he added.
He said even a simple mass action will be monitored.
“Although we don’t prevent them from expressing their sentiment, we have to attend to this. For example in Makati, we have to secure the embassy of Malaysia. There’s a possibility of conducting mass action and we owe it to the embassy to maintain peace and order in the area,” Cerbo noted.
On the possibility of filing charges against Kiram’s men, Cerbo maintained that the PNP has to enforce the law.
“We always say the task of the PNP is to maintain peace and order, enforce the law,” he said. – Cecille Suerte Felipe, Mike Frialde, Perseus Echeminada, AP
Villagers leave their homes in Semporna, Sabah yesterday, a day after armed clashes between followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and Malaysian police. AP
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The two governments confirmed yesterday that 11 more Filipinos and six Malaysian security forces were killed over the weekend in the town of Semporna near Lahad Datu, where 12 of Kiram’s supporters were earlier slain.
Sabah villagers fled as the skirmishes shocked Malaysians unaccustomed to such violence in their country, which borders insurgency-plagued southern provinces in the Philippines and Thailand.
Kiram’s more than 200 supporters, some bearing rifles, slipped past naval patrols early last month, landed in the coastal village of Lahad Datu and insisted the territory was theirs.
Public attention focused yesterday on how to minimize casualties while apprehending the sultan’s men suspected to have encroached on two other districts within 300 kilometers of Lahad Datu.
“The situation is under control now,” Sabah police chief Hamza Taib said. “There will be cooperation” between the military and the police, he said.
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He declined to elaborate on specific strategies or on a call by former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad for lethal action.
“There is no way out other than launching a counter-attack to eliminate” the intruders, Malaysia’s national news agency Bernama quoted Mahathir as saying Sunday. “Although many of them will be killed, this cannot be avoided because they had attacked Sabah, and not the other way around.”
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak declared over the weekend that security forces were authorized to “take any action deemed necessary.” The Philippines requested Malaysia to exercise maximum tolerance.
“An additional two army battalions have been dispatched to Sabah,” Najib was quoted by Bernama as saying.
“We continue to ask them that life is a better option than death,” presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda told ABS-CBN TV. “These casualties, the wounded, the fatalities, are all the product of what we have been trying to avoid, the bloodshed.”
There were reports of increased activities by armed civilians in coastal and mountainous areas of Tawau, Semporna, Kunak, Lahad Datu and Sandakan.
“Residents from these areas are very restless and most of them are seen leaving for safer areas. Malaysian police and army troops are now deployed in these places,” a source said.
A cargo plane that landed in Lahad Datu was seen unloading armored vehicles.
A senior Malaysian Army commander has admitted they are facing highly skilled combatants.
The Malaysian army commander was referring to the group of Kiram’s brother Agbimuddin, who remains in his dugout in Lahad Datu despite last Friday’s assault by Malaysian forces.
Senior Filipino security officials said the problem might worsen if not properly handled by Malaysia.
In Semporna, dead gunmen lay in the streets as villagers fled rising violence.
A total of 27 people have been reported killed after two deadly shootouts in Sabah.
An AFP reporter in Semporna saw the corpses of three suspected gunmen with gunshots wounds, covered in flies and a foul stench as dozens of people were packing up their belongings and fleeing the town. Residents said the bodies were gunmen killed by police.
“Our peaceful town has become a nightmare to live in,” Julasri Yaakob, 38, said as he heaved a bag full of clothes onto a lorry, his young daughter next to him.
“We are moving out because these are uncertain times. We heard the gunshots. My children are afraid,” he said.
The armed intrusion has deeply embarrassed Najib – who must call elections by June – by exposing lax border security and fueling perceptions of lawlessness and huge illegal immigration in Sabah.
The exact identities of the gunmen remain a mystery, but Malaysian armed forces chief Zulkifeli Zin told a news conference in Sabah on Sunday that they appeared to have guerrilla combat experience.
Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have called for calm, saying the situation is under control, but have come under fire from the political opposition over the police deaths.
While schools, stores and government offices were closed in Semporna, there was little sign of a heavy security presence in the town despite the recent clashes and fleeing population.
Sabah has seen previous smaller-scale cross-border raids from Islamic militants and other bandits from the Philippines.
Semporna taken?
In Manila, supporters of Kiram said Semporna is now under the control of the Sultanate’s forces.
A Tausug gunman in Sabah relayed a message to the sultanate that the Filipinos had taken over police stations and begun rounding up policemen and local officials in the area.
“This report coming from Sabah is still unconfirmed but was sent by people who are now in the area,” a top official of the Moro National Liberation Front told The STAR.
“Moro supporters of Sultan Kiram take over control Semporna, killed 100 police and captured five Malaysian police officers... 100 police armaments were taken by Moro from KIA ( killed in action) Malaysian police.. Up to this time they took control of Semporna and manning the captured police station,” the message read.
Reports also said hundreds of detained Filipinos in Semporna had been freed and issued firearms seized from the Malaysian police.
In an interview with dzMM broadcaster Noli de Castro, Kiram said he has lost contact with his brother Agbimuddin because Malaysian authorities had shut down cell sites in the area.
Kiram’s supporters, mostly Tausugs, killed a group of policemen reportedly in retaliation for the killing of a Muslim religious leader and his children recently.
Abraham Idjirani, spokesman of the sultanate, told reporters in Taguig City Sunday that Malaysian police raided the house of Imam Maas and killed him and his sons after the imam refused to reveal the whereabouts of Sultan Alepiuya Kiram, a brother of Jamalul.
“When the police failed to locate the brother of Sultan Jumalul they fired at the house of Imam Maas, a respected priest in the village,” he said.
Idjirani said the killing enraged Filipinos who attacked the police and military headquarters in the area.
Jamalul’s daughter Princess Jacel Kiram said the hostilities in Semporna have spread to other areas in Sabah and that reinforcements from Tawi-Tawi, Basilan, Sulu and Zamboanga have already arrived.
Idjirani said they have been instructed by the Sultan to “take care of the captives as they will be presented to an international body to answer for the killing of innocent people.”
PNP on alert
Meanwhile, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said it is monitoring movements of followers and potential supporters of Kiram to prevent them from crossing over to Sabah and reinforcing the sultan’s armed groups.
PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima has instructed all regional directors and ground commanders to monitor the movement of Kiram’s backers, said PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Generoso Cerbo Jr.
Cerbo clarified that the monitoring is not only focused on the Muslim community.
“Let’s see if there will be developments in security issues and concerns in their areas with respect to the development in Sabah. As of now, there’s none,” Cerbo pointed out. “We see no untoward incidents related to the Sabah issue. We want this matter to be resolved peacefully.”
Cerbo said the PNP is optimistic the matter would eventually be resolved peacefully.
He noted that the PNP has put in place measures to prevent Kiram’s sympathizers from making moves that would aggravate the situation.
Cerbo said the PNP is closely coordinating with the Philippine Coast Guard and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to prevent Kiram’s sympathizers in Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and the Zamboanga peninsula from crossing the Sulu Sea.
“We have enough police forces and from all indications, there’s still no need for additional deployment of police forces,” he added.
He said even a simple mass action will be monitored.
“Although we don’t prevent them from expressing their sentiment, we have to attend to this. For example in Makati, we have to secure the embassy of Malaysia. There’s a possibility of conducting mass action and we owe it to the embassy to maintain peace and order in the area,” Cerbo noted.
On the possibility of filing charges against Kiram’s men, Cerbo maintained that the PNP has to enforce the law.
“We always say the task of the PNP is to maintain peace and order, enforce the law,” he said. – Cecille Suerte Felipe, Mike Frialde, Perseus Echeminada, AP
[h=1]KL sends more troops to Sabah[/h]By Jaime Laude (The Philippine Star) | Updated March 5, 2013 - 12:00am
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Villagers leave their homes in Semporna, Sabah yesterday, a day after armed clashes between followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and Malaysian police. AP
MANILA, Philippines - As violence spread in Sabah, Malaysia yesterday deployed armored vehicles and hundreds of additional troops to neutralize armed followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III in the country’s bloodiest security emergency in years.
The two governments confirmed yesterday that 11 more Filipinos and six Malaysian security forces were killed over the weekend in the town of Semporna near Lahad Datu, where 12 of Kiram’s supporters were earlier slain.
Sabah villagers fled as the skirmishes shocked Malaysians unaccustomed to such violence in their country, which borders insurgency-plagued southern provinces in the Philippines and Thailand.
Kiram’s more than 200 supporters, some bearing rifles, slipped past naval patrols early last month, landed in the coastal village of Lahad Datu and insisted the territory was theirs.
Public attention focused yesterday on how to minimize casualties while apprehending the sultan’s men suspected to have encroached on two other districts within 300 kilometers of Lahad Datu.
“The situation is under control now,” Sabah police chief Hamza Taib said. “There will be cooperation” between the military and the police, he said.
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He declined to elaborate on specific strategies or on a call by former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad for lethal action.
“There is no way out other than launching a counter-attack to eliminate” the intruders, Malaysia’s national news agency Bernama quoted Mahathir as saying Sunday. “Although many of them will be killed, this cannot be avoided because they had attacked Sabah, and not the other way around.”
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak declared over the weekend that security forces were authorized to “take any action deemed necessary.” The Philippines requested Malaysia to exercise maximum tolerance.
“An additional two army battalions have been dispatched to Sabah,” Najib was quoted by Bernama as saying.
“We continue to ask them that life is a better option than death,” presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda told ABS-CBN TV. “These casualties, the wounded, the fatalities, are all the product of what we have been trying to avoid, the bloodshed.”
There were reports of increased activities by armed civilians in coastal and mountainous areas of Tawau, Semporna, Kunak, Lahad Datu and Sandakan.
“Residents from these areas are very restless and most of them are seen leaving for safer areas. Malaysian police and army troops are now deployed in these places,” a source said.
A cargo plane that landed in Lahad Datu was seen unloading armored vehicles.
A senior Malaysian Army commander has admitted they are facing highly skilled combatants.
The Malaysian army commander was referring to the group of Kiram’s brother Agbimuddin, who remains in his dugout in Lahad Datu despite last Friday’s assault by Malaysian forces.
Senior Filipino security officials said the problem might worsen if not properly handled by Malaysia.
In Semporna, dead gunmen lay in the streets as villagers fled rising violence.
A total of 27 people have been reported killed after two deadly shootouts in Sabah.
An AFP reporter in Semporna saw the corpses of three suspected gunmen with gunshots wounds, covered in flies and a foul stench as dozens of people were packing up their belongings and fleeing the town. Residents said the bodies were gunmen killed by police.
“Our peaceful town has become a nightmare to live in,” Julasri Yaakob, 38, said as he heaved a bag full of clothes onto a lorry, his young daughter next to him.
“We are moving out because these are uncertain times. We heard the gunshots. My children are afraid,” he said.
The armed intrusion has deeply embarrassed Najib – who must call elections by June – by exposing lax border security and fueling perceptions of lawlessness and huge illegal immigration in Sabah.
The exact identities of the gunmen remain a mystery, but Malaysian armed forces chief Zulkifeli Zin told a news conference in Sabah on Sunday that they appeared to have guerrilla combat experience.
Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have called for calm, saying the situation is under control, but have come under fire from the political opposition over the police deaths.
While schools, stores and government offices were closed in Semporna, there was little sign of a heavy security presence in the town despite the recent clashes and fleeing population.
Sabah has seen previous smaller-scale cross-border raids from Islamic militants and other bandits from the Philippines.
Semporna taken?
In Manila, supporters of Kiram said Semporna is now under the control of the Sultanate’s forces.
A Tausug gunman in Sabah relayed a message to the sultanate that the Filipinos had taken over police stations and begun rounding up policemen and local officials in the area.
“This report coming from Sabah is still unconfirmed but was sent by people who are now in the area,” a top official of the Moro National Liberation Front told The STAR.
“Moro supporters of Sultan Kiram take over control Semporna, killed 100 police and captured five Malaysian police officers... 100 police armaments were taken by Moro from KIA ( killed in action) Malaysian police.. Up to this time they took control of Semporna and manning the captured police station,” the message read.
Reports also said hundreds of detained Filipinos in Semporna had been freed and issued firearms seized from the Malaysian police.
In an interview with dzMM broadcaster Noli de Castro, Kiram said he has lost contact with his brother Agbimuddin because Malaysian authorities had shut down cell sites in the area.
Kiram’s supporters, mostly Tausugs, killed a group of policemen reportedly in retaliation for the killing of a Muslim religious leader and his children recently.
Abraham Idjirani, spokesman of the sultanate, told reporters in Taguig City Sunday that Malaysian police raided the house of Imam Maas and killed him and his sons after the imam refused to reveal the whereabouts of Sultan Alepiuya Kiram, a brother of Jamalul.
“When the police failed to locate the brother of Sultan Jumalul they fired at the house of Imam Maas, a respected priest in the village,” he said.
Idjirani said the killing enraged Filipinos who attacked the police and military headquarters in the area.
Jamalul’s daughter Princess Jacel Kiram said the hostilities in Semporna have spread to other areas in Sabah and that reinforcements from Tawi-Tawi, Basilan, Sulu and Zamboanga have already arrived.
Idjirani said they have been instructed by the Sultan to “take care of the captives as they will be presented to an international body to answer for the killing of innocent people.”
PNP on alert
Meanwhile, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said it is monitoring movements of followers and potential supporters of Kiram to prevent them from crossing over to Sabah and reinforcing the sultan’s armed groups.
PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima has instructed all regional directors and ground commanders to monitor the movement of Kiram’s backers, said PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Generoso Cerbo Jr.
Cerbo clarified that the monitoring is not only focused on the Muslim community.
“Let’s see if there will be developments in security issues and concerns in their areas with respect to the development in Sabah. As of now, there’s none,” Cerbo pointed out. “We see no untoward incidents related to the Sabah issue. We want this matter to be resolved peacefully.”
Cerbo said the PNP is optimistic the matter would eventually be resolved peacefully.
He noted that the PNP has put in place measures to prevent Kiram’s sympathizers from making moves that would aggravate the situation.
Cerbo said the PNP is closely coordinating with the Philippine Coast Guard and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to prevent Kiram’s sympathizers in Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and the Zamboanga peninsula from crossing the Sulu Sea.
“We have enough police forces and from all indications, there’s still no need for additional deployment of police forces,” he added.
He said even a simple mass action will be monitored.
“Although we don’t prevent them from expressing their sentiment, we have to attend to this. For example in Makati, we have to secure the embassy of Malaysia. There’s a possibility of conducting mass action and we owe it to the embassy to maintain peace and order in the area,” Cerbo noted.
On the possibility of filing charges against Kiram’s men, Cerbo maintained that the PNP has to enforce the law.
“We always say the task of the PNP is to maintain peace and order, enforce the law,” he said. – Cecille Suerte Felipe, Mike Frialde, Perseus Echeminada, AP
What sort of armoured vehicles? Their new Tanks?
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It's mine: Sultan Jamalul Kiram III explains his claim to reporters at his home in Manila. Photo: AP
The flotilla of motor boats arrived unnoticed on the remote eastern tip of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo on February 9, disgorging men in army fatigues, many of whom were heavily armed.
Next day a fisherman saw a large group of suspicious strangers holed up in a village near the timber exporting town of Lahad Datu. He called police, who had no idea what they were doing there.
Over several days more intruders are believed to have arrived by boat and spread out into other villages along the Sabah coast, triggering Malaysia's most serious security crisis in decades, which has left 25 people dead in two shootouts.
The man reportedly behind the surreal events is ailing 74-year-old Jamalul Kiram III, the Sultan of Sulu, who claims to reign over an archipelago at the remote southernmost tip of the Philippines, although the territory is not recognised by any state. Nor is Mr Kiram's family the only one that has claimed to be the rightful sultan.
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Mr Kiram greets reporters sitting on a dirty plastic chair at his two-storey house in a rundown district of Manila, telling them his followers have gone to Sabah to reclaim their land.
''If they have to die, then they will die,'' he said, though insisting ''the door of the sultanate for negotiation is open''.
The row over Sabah is old and convoluted. In 1658 the Sultan of Brunei ceded the area to the Sultan of Sulu for helping to quash a rebellion. The Sultan of Sulu later leased Sabah to the British North Borneo Company.
At the end of the colonial era the British folded the territory into what was then called the Federation of Malaya in 1963, instead of handing Sabah back to the Sulu sultanate, by then part of the Philippines.
Five years later then Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos hatched a plan to invade and annex Sabah but was forced to abort it after Muslim Philippine troops rebelled.
They were massacred, triggering an uprising in the Muslim-dominated southern Philippines.
For decades Malaysia has made modest ''cession'' payments of about $US1500 a year to the heirs of the sultanate, in apparent recognition of the territory's contested absorption.
Mr Kiram has repeatedly called on successive Philippine governments to support his historical claim to Sabah, saying he has documents from the 1800s to prove it.
On November 1, Mr Kiram issued a decree mandating his followers to travel to and settle peacefully in Sabah.
It seems he was unhappy at being excluded from a peace agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest Muslim rebel group in the southern Philippines, brokered by Malaysia and signed the previous month.
Few took notice of the decree until the men arrived on Sabah.
The subsequent standoff has the potential to strain ties between Malaysia and the Philippines, although Philippine President Benigno Aquino has repeatedly called on Mr Kiram's followers to withdraw and sent navy patrols to the area to try to prevent reinforcements joining them.
Sabah shares a long sea border with the Philippines that is difficult to patrol.
Mr Aquino has in the past described the Sabah claim as ''dormant'' but in the past few days Philippine officials have suggested the country could re-examine it.
Officials fear that if the sultan's group is martyred in an armed crackdown, his followers could emerge as a third armed group in the southern Philippines and undermine the MILF agreement.
More than 800,000 Philippine workers, many of them undocumented, live in Sabah, which has oil and gas fields. Chinese companies are investing in hydro-electricity and coalmines there.
Mr Kiram told reporters he was worried the violence might spread because many Filipinos, especially followers of his sultanate in the southern Philippines, are upset at the killing of 12 of their compatriots in a firefight last Friday.
His daughter, Jacel, who describes herself as a princess, has called on Filipinos to stay calm but stressed the sultanate would never back down from its struggle to reclaim Sabah.
''This concerns honour above life,'' she said.
''We will not retreat just like that, because we're fighting for something and our struggle is our right and truth.''
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The flotilla of motor boats arrived unnoticed on the remote eastern tip of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo on February 9, disgorging men in army fatigues, many of whom were heavily armed.
Next day a fisherman saw a large group of suspicious strangers holed up in a village near the timber exporting town of Lahad Datu. He called police, who had no idea what they were doing there.
Over several days more intruders are believed to have arrived by boat and spread out into other villages along the Sabah coast, triggering Malaysia's most serious security crisis in decades, which has left 25 people dead in two shootouts.
The man reportedly behind the surreal events is ailing 74-year-old Jamalul Kiram III, the Sultan of Sulu, who claims to reign over an archipelago at the remote southernmost tip of the Philippines, although the territory is not recognised by any state. Nor is Mr Kiram's family the only one that has claimed to be the rightful sultan.
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Mr Kiram greets reporters sitting on a dirty plastic chair at his two-storey house in a rundown district of Manila, telling them his followers have gone to Sabah to reclaim their land.
''If they have to die, then they will die,'' he said, though insisting ''the door of the sultanate for negotiation is open''.
The row over Sabah is old and convoluted. In 1658 the Sultan of Brunei ceded the area to the Sultan of Sulu for helping to quash a rebellion. The Sultan of Sulu later leased Sabah to the British North Borneo Company.
At the end of the colonial era the British folded the territory into what was then called the Federation of Malaya in 1963, instead of handing Sabah back to the Sulu sultanate, by then part of the Philippines.
Five years later then Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos hatched a plan to invade and annex Sabah but was forced to abort it after Muslim Philippine troops rebelled.
They were massacred, triggering an uprising in the Muslim-dominated southern Philippines.
For decades Malaysia has made modest ''cession'' payments of about $US1500 a year to the heirs of the sultanate, in apparent recognition of the territory's contested absorption.
Mr Kiram has repeatedly called on successive Philippine governments to support his historical claim to Sabah, saying he has documents from the 1800s to prove it.
On November 1, Mr Kiram issued a decree mandating his followers to travel to and settle peacefully in Sabah.
It seems he was unhappy at being excluded from a peace agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest Muslim rebel group in the southern Philippines, brokered by Malaysia and signed the previous month.
Few took notice of the decree until the men arrived on Sabah.
The subsequent standoff has the potential to strain ties between Malaysia and the Philippines, although Philippine President Benigno Aquino has repeatedly called on Mr Kiram's followers to withdraw and sent navy patrols to the area to try to prevent reinforcements joining them.
Sabah shares a long sea border with the Philippines that is difficult to patrol.
Mr Aquino has in the past described the Sabah claim as ''dormant'' but in the past few days Philippine officials have suggested the country could re-examine it.
Officials fear that if the sultan's group is martyred in an armed crackdown, his followers could emerge as a third armed group in the southern Philippines and undermine the MILF agreement.
More than 800,000 Philippine workers, many of them undocumented, live in Sabah, which has oil and gas fields. Chinese companies are investing in hydro-electricity and coalmines there.
Mr Kiram told reporters he was worried the violence might spread because many Filipinos, especially followers of his sultanate in the southern Philippines, are upset at the killing of 12 of their compatriots in a firefight last Friday.
His daughter, Jacel, who describes herself as a princess, has called on Filipinos to stay calm but stressed the sultanate would never back down from its struggle to reclaim Sabah.
''This concerns honour above life,'' she said.
''We will not retreat just like that, because we're fighting for something and our struggle is our right and truth.''
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By Jahabar Sadiq
Editor
March 04, 2013
Soldiers waiting to board an AirAsia flight in Kuala Lumpur to Sabah. — Picture courtesy of AirAsia chief Tan Sri Tony Fernandes’ Twitter account @tonyfernandesCOMMENTARY, March 4 — There comes a time when Malaysians must unite and fight a common enemy, not bicker and blame each other over what is going wrong. That time is now for Sabah.
We need to support our policemen and troops facing Filipino militants who wish to lay claim over a land whose people decided to form Malaysia 50 years ago with Malaya and Sarawak.
We need to make sure the sacrifice of eight fallen policemen was not in vain, that their widows and children know their husband or father’s death has helped keep Malaysia intact and free.
We need to see what our priorities are now, to end the bloodshed and standoff in Sabah with Filipino militants who have broken our territorial integrity and laws.
We need to get our peace and security back. We stand united or we fall divided. Pure and simple.
The time for investigating what went wrong with our defence of Sabah will come. The time for apportioning blame and reveal the traitors will come.
Right now, we need our politicians to stop blaming each other and accusing each other of instigating this incursion. Such talk is not constructive and will not help our security forces do their job.
This is not the time for politics, and the less we hear from people like Special Affairs Department (Jasa) director-general Datuk Fuad Hassan the better. We don’t need him to tell us what to do and be patriotic.
We are Malaysians, we are patriotic and 100 per cent in support of our security forces in facing the threat of these Filipino militants.
We need to listen to people like Jasica Ahmad who tweeted from her account @jasicaahmad, saying “sulu hashtag is scary... i prefer #prayforsabah more positivity and prayer than talking about politic and do nothing.”
Or for example, 12th Kopites1982® who said in his @ElHazizyKopites Twitter account: “It matter not by which flag you stand up for, what matter is ‘Ini Rumah Kita’ #PrayForSabah #UniteAndFight”.
Azrul Hafiz also made it clear in his @azrulhfiz Twitter account, saying “just stop wih political issues and keep pray for our nation #PrayForLahadDatu #PrayForSabah”.
Right now, the Ministry of Defence is sending two battalions of soldiers as fast as possible to double the strength of security forces in Sabah. Budget carrier AirAsia is helping to send the troops there.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has vowed to stay there with his top brass and policemen until the situation is resolved. And Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has said the time for talk is over, it is time for action.
Malaysia has been patient enough. Our policemen and soldiers are at the forefront of an unexpected war with Filipino militants and locals who appear to owe their allegiance to the Sulu sultan and not our Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
A squad of 25 policemen went to investigate suspicious activity in Kampung Simunul in Semporna but only 19 came back alive after being rescued from an ambush on Saturday while six others died.
Two other policemen had died in Lahad Datu on Friday. That is eight deaths too much for a peaceful country like Malaysia and a beautiful state like Sabah.
So let’s get with the programme. Take action first, expel the militants or capture them to face the wrath of Malaysian law.
Only then we can have a review and inquest over what went wrong in Sabah. Not now. Now is the time to unite and fight back our enemies.
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By Jahabar Sadiq
Editor
March 04, 2013
We need to support our policemen and troops facing Filipino militants who wish to lay claim over a land whose people decided to form Malaysia 50 years ago with Malaya and Sarawak.
We need to make sure the sacrifice of eight fallen policemen was not in vain, that their widows and children know their husband or father’s death has helped keep Malaysia intact and free.
We need to see what our priorities are now, to end the bloodshed and standoff in Sabah with Filipino militants who have broken our territorial integrity and laws.
We need to get our peace and security back. We stand united or we fall divided. Pure and simple.
The time for investigating what went wrong with our defence of Sabah will come. The time for apportioning blame and reveal the traitors will come.
Right now, we need our politicians to stop blaming each other and accusing each other of instigating this incursion. Such talk is not constructive and will not help our security forces do their job.
This is not the time for politics, and the less we hear from people like Special Affairs Department (Jasa) director-general Datuk Fuad Hassan the better. We don’t need him to tell us what to do and be patriotic.
We are Malaysians, we are patriotic and 100 per cent in support of our security forces in facing the threat of these Filipino militants.
We need to listen to people like Jasica Ahmad who tweeted from her account @jasicaahmad, saying “sulu hashtag is scary... i prefer #prayforsabah more positivity and prayer than talking about politic and do nothing.”
Or for example, 12th Kopites1982® who said in his @ElHazizyKopites Twitter account: “It matter not by which flag you stand up for, what matter is ‘Ini Rumah Kita’ #PrayForSabah #UniteAndFight”.
Azrul Hafiz also made it clear in his @azrulhfiz Twitter account, saying “just stop wih political issues and keep pray for our nation #PrayForLahadDatu #PrayForSabah”.
Right now, the Ministry of Defence is sending two battalions of soldiers as fast as possible to double the strength of security forces in Sabah. Budget carrier AirAsia is helping to send the troops there.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has vowed to stay there with his top brass and policemen until the situation is resolved. And Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has said the time for talk is over, it is time for action.
Malaysia has been patient enough. Our policemen and soldiers are at the forefront of an unexpected war with Filipino militants and locals who appear to owe their allegiance to the Sulu sultan and not our Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
A squad of 25 policemen went to investigate suspicious activity in Kampung Simunul in Semporna but only 19 came back alive after being rescued from an ambush on Saturday while six others died.
Two other policemen had died in Lahad Datu on Friday. That is eight deaths too much for a peaceful country like Malaysia and a beautiful state like Sabah.
So let’s get with the programme. Take action first, expel the militants or capture them to face the wrath of Malaysian law.
Only then we can have a review and inquest over what went wrong in Sabah. Not now. Now is the time to unite and fight back our enemies.
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