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Update 1 - March 6, 2013
The
attack launched by air strikes and grounds forces by our Malaysian Armed Forces
were not precise and strategic.In fact from Military intelligence,as reported
by ANC news in Manila,the bombs landed 1 kilometer away from the actual
target.How did that happen? Were the "Royal Sulu Army" informed of
the strikes well before it started or was the intention of the Malaysian Armed
Forces to scare them only?
“They are alive and kicking,” so claimed the spokesman of the Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III after Malaysia launched air strikes and mortar attacks on Tuesday against nearly 200 Filipinos occupying holed up in Lahad Datu.
Unconfirmed reports,which has yet to be verified indicated that none of the "Royal Sulu Army" soldiers were anywhere around within the area that they were holding up,when jet fighters pounded the area.
Spokesman for the Sulu Sultanate Abraham Idjirani said that Agbimuddin Kiram and his men were “alive and kicking” in Lahad Datu. “The bombs dropped fell on Malaysian forces.”
More than seven hours after fighter jets were deployed, Malaysian Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said no injuries occurred among Malaysian police and military personnel who went in to raid houses near palm oil plantations there.
“On the enemy’s side, we have to wait because the operation is ongoing. We have to be careful,” the minister said, refusing to elaborate on whether there were Filipino casualties or captives.
Update 1 - March 6, 2013
The
attack launched by air strikes and grounds forces by our Malaysian Armed Forces
were not precise and strategic.In fact from Military intelligence,as reported
by ANC news in Manila,the bombs landed 1 kilometer away from the actual
target.How did that happen? Were the "Royal Sulu Army" informed of
the strikes well before it started or was the intention of the Malaysian Armed
Forces to scare them only?“They are alive and kicking,” so claimed the spokesman of the Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III after Malaysia launched air strikes and mortar attacks on Tuesday against nearly 200 Filipinos occupying holed up in Lahad Datu.
Unconfirmed reports,which has yet to be verified indicated that none of the "Royal Sulu Army" soldiers were anywhere around within the area that they were holding up,when jet fighters pounded the area.
Spokesman for the Sulu Sultanate Abraham Idjirani said that Agbimuddin Kiram and his men were “alive and kicking” in Lahad Datu. “The bombs dropped fell on Malaysian forces.”
More than seven hours after fighter jets were deployed, Malaysian Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said no injuries occurred among Malaysian police and military personnel who went in to raid houses near palm oil plantations there.
“On the enemy’s side, we have to wait because the operation is ongoing. We have to be careful,” the minister said, refusing to elaborate on whether there were Filipino casualties or captives.
‘Missed’
targets, unpaid ‘settlements’
| March 5, 2013
While claims of today's airstrikes
in Lahad Datu were 'llegal', a Kiram family member spoke of a Malaysian
government approved 'settlement' stuck in a 'bank' in Malaysia.
LAHAD DATU: Even as the Philippine
media reported that this morning’s airstrikes “missed” their targets – which
was the forces of Raja Muda Agbimuddin Kiram – in Kampung Tandao and
neighbouring villages, a Manila senator urged his government to protect its
citizens in Sabah.
Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos
Jr said the legality of the Kirams’ claim on Sabah was second to the fact that
the people under attack were Filipinos.
“Whatever else the issue there [in
Sabah] may be, the Sultan of Sulu and his people are Filipino citizens and, by
virtue of that fact, they deserve protection from the government of the
Philippines.
“It’s the responsibility of the
government to protect its citizens,” he said, alluding to Manila’s stand seen
as “non-committal”.
Manila has urged the Sulu intruders
in Sabah – in a three-week standoff which ended in bloody clashes last Friday
and continued through the weekend – to surrender unconditionally but the call
was mocked by Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III.
Newsportal ABS-CBN reported that
hours before the Malaysian army began their assault on Kampung Tanduo, the site
of Friday’s bloody clashes which killed two Malaysian police commandos, the
Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario has tried to ask the
Malaysian government for “maximum tolerance”.
Strangely enough there have been no
official disclosures of body counts or casualties following the 7am airstrikes
and the ground assault against the armed intruders.
All that is known is that
Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar has declared that the police and army
had achieved their objectives.
Meanwhile, an international law
professor in the University of Philippines, Harry Roque, said in Manila that
the airstrikes by Malaysian security forces against the Kirams’ followers were
“illegal” and a “wrong act”.
He hinted that the Malaysian
government had used excessive force in dealing with the members of the
Sultanate royal army who are now holed up in Lahad Datu.
“Malaysian law enforcement officials
should, as far as possible, apply non-violent means before resorting to force,
and in particular, the resort to airstrikes,” the Philippines Star quoted him
as saying.
Conspiracy theory
Conspiracy theory
In a related issue, the Kirams have
urged President Benigno Aquino to prove his claims that there was a third party
backing their Sabah claim.
Jamalul’s daughter Jacel told the
Asian News Network that Aquino’s latest comments on the Lahad Datu crisis was
“speculative”.
“If Aquino thinks someone’s behind
this, we challenge him to prove it,” she said.
Aquino said yesterday there were
“definite signs” of a conspiracy in the Kirams’ move to press their Sabah
claims.
He pointed out that the Kirams would
have had to spend “a least” 100,000 pesos (RM7,611) to hire a large boat to
bring forces into Lahad Datu. And according to their (Manila’s) “intelligence”
reports, the Kirams had used two large boats and a speedboat to ferry their men
to Lahad Datu.
He said since Jamalul was already on
government aid through the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office for his
regular dialysis, it was unlikely that the sultan could have financed the
assault on his own.
Aquino also said that the Philippine
authorities were monitoring “persons of interest” who were pushing for Kirams’
claim on Sabah.
In Kuala Lumpur, Prime Minister
Najib Tun Razak had on Sunday said that Malaysia and the Philippines were
investigating reports linking the Sulu incursion to the opposition’s campaign
to give Sabah autonomy if it wins in the general election.
Najib said he was puzzled as to why
the armed men came to Sabah at a time when the country was about to hold the
polls and when the Sulu Sultanate had already laid claim to Sabah a long time
ago.
“All avenues must be investigated.
[Philippine] President [Benigno S] Aquino also wants to know the truth,” said
Najib, alluding to media reports in the Philippines that Opposition Leader
Anwar Ibrahim was linked to the Lahad Datu invasion.
‘Good settlement’
‘Good settlement’
Meanwhile, another Kiram family
member in Manila claimed that the whole incident was a “drama” but declined to
offer details.
Princess Maryam Kiram, however, said
that she has been talking with Malaysian officials and an agreement has already
been reached regarding the increase of the rent for Sabah.
“I am now negotiating some form of
compensation from the Malaysian government to help develop the ancestral lands
[of the Sulu families],” she reportedly told a press conference in Makati.
Quoting her, PhilStar.Com said that
the Malaysian government “was receptive” and was preparing “a good settlement”.
According to Maryam, she visited
Malaysia earlier this year for the release of the funds.
“The funds were to be in my hands on
Jan 11, but unfortunately it was delayed for unknown reason,” she said.
She added that the funds were supposed
to have been deposited in a designated bank with clearance from the Bank
Negara.
Meanwhile, the sultanate of Sulu
disputed the claims of Malaysian security forces that they had routed the group
led by Raja Muda Agbimuddin Kiram, which came under attack in Lahad Datu town
in Sabah.
Black propaganda
The assault by Malaysian security
forces, which included airstrikes and armour, began early today and, by noon,
police and military officials in Sabah were reported in Malaysian media as
saying the group of Agbimuddin, brother and crown prince of Sulu Sultan Jamalul
Kiram III, who had been holed up in the village of Tanduo since early last
month, had been defeated and that mopping-up operations were taking place.
But at a press briefing in the
sultan’s Maharlika Village home, Abraham Idjirani, the sultanate’s spokesman,
spoke to Agbimuddin by phone in front of reporters.
“Raja Muda called up. Now this will
put to rest the black propaganda being waged by the Malaysian government that
our brothers were obliterated by the Malaysian police and military. Raja Muda
and his followers are all alive and still kicking,” Idjirani said.
He described Agbimuddin as a “fox,”
constantly moving from one place to another to evade the Malaysian forces, the
InterAksyon.com news portal reported an hour ago.
Earlier, Idjarani also claimed
Agbimuddin had said the bombs dropped by the Malaysian air force had not hit
their positions but had, instead, fallen on security forces that had massed up
for the assault.
But Malaysian authorities claimed
their forces had not suffered a single casualty.
10,000 Tausugs to sail to Sabah
March 5, 2013
The Moro National Liberation Front
claims that many people, even non-combatants, are going to Sabah to help the
Sulu Sultanate.
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Thousands of Tausug
from Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi have sailed to Sabah to reinforce members of
the so-called royal army of the sultanate of Sulu who are fighting it out with
Malaysian security forces, a Moro National Liberation Front official said
Tuesday.
“We can no longer prevent our
people. We are hurt and many of our people, even the non-combatants, are going
to Sabah to help the sultanate,” Habib Hashim Mudjahab, chair of the MNLF’s
Islamic Council Committee, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer by phone.
Mudjahab said at least 10,000 Tausug
from Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and Zamboanga on Monday night started to
reinforce the followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III now holed up in a coastal
village in Sabah via the Philippines’ so-called “southern backdoor,” a route
regular traders are familiar with.
He said the reinforcements “sailed
in small numbers so they can easily penetrate Sabah unnoticed.”
‘It is about pride and honor, and
our people are ready to sacrifice.’
“The naval blockade is of no use;
our military should have known that. We did that before at the height of Marcos
regime. We can easily go to Sabah and blend with the people there,” he added.
He was referring to a naval blockade
thrown up by the Philippine Navy and Coast Guard to ensure armed sympathizers
do not joined the beleaguered men in Sabah as reinforcements.
Days ago, Mudjahab said, he advised
several MNLF commanders against going to Sabah to help a group of about 200 men
who landed in a coastal village in Lahad Datu on Feb 9 to assert the
sultanate’s claim to Sabah.
“I told them to hold on to their
ranks and avoid getting emotionally affected with the situation. But our
President Noynoy (President Benigno Aquino III) kept issuing statements
favoring the Malaysians, which made our people agitated. The President must
realize that for the Tausugs, being pushed to the wall, fighting for a cause,
is dying with victory,” he said.
He said with three old heirs of the
Sultanate, “who have no history of rebellion, living quietly on their own, now
leading the cause in Sabah, is something great for the Tausugs.”
“It is about pride and honor, and
our people are ready to sacrifice,” Mudjahab said.
Ajil Jaffar, 50, an oil palm
plantation worker in Kota Kinabalu and who was among those repatriated to the
country on Sunday, said he wanted to return to Sabah.
“I want to help them. It’s our honor
to be with the sultan so that this deportation and abuses will stop,” he said.
A retired educator in Tawi-Tawi, who
asked not to be identified by name, said the sultanate of Sulu represents an
extension of their rich heritage. “They are the first Filipinos. The sultanate
of Sulu was already there even before Philippines existed,” he said.
Amirah Lidasan of the non
governmental group Suara Bangsamoro said the status of the sultanate of Sulu
was unfinished business that “keeps on nagging us.”
“We have a bloody history of Moro
people getting killed while defending the homeland. It also speaks of the
Philippine government’s giving in to the interest of foreigners instead of its
citizens,” Lidasan said. - Agencies
