Kabang undergoes plastic surgery but can’t have snout replaced
By Julie Alipala
The adage “You reap what you sow” has been proven to be true once more even if the one committing the good deed was just a dog.
The adage “You reap what you sow” has been proven to be true once more even if the one committing the good deed was just a dog.
The Filipino wife of freed Australian kidnap victim Richard Warren Rodwell said the Abu Sayyaf only got P4 million and not P7 million as an unnamed official had earlier told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
he Malaysian immigration department on Thursday said it would stop issuing Seaman Identification Cards (SICs), particularly to Filipino barter traders, beginning April as part of tightened security measures following the intrusion into Sabah by armed followers of the sultan of Sulu.
Filipinos, who had fled Sabah in the aftermath of the armed intrusion there by the Sulu “royal army,” had learned to endure the pains of being violently beaten by Malaysian security forces during crackdowns on suspected Sabah-based supporters of the sultanate’s men just to stay alive, survivors had claimed.
More than 400 individuals from Sabah have been stranded on Taganak Island (Turtle Island) in Tawi-Tawi province since Saturday night, waiting to be rescued by the government, a Philippine Navy official said on Sunday.
“They dragged all the men outside the houses, kicked and hit them,” 32-year-old Amira Taradji said on Friday as she recounted her family’s ordeal in Sandakan, which started when Malaysian security forces launched a crackdown on suspected supporters of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III in Sabah.
Traveling for hours aboard two vessels, at least 100 Filipinos from Sandakan arrived in Bongao late Friday night as Malaysian authorities continued their purging operation against armed followers of the Sultanate of Sulu and their suspected supporters in Sabah.
At least 289 Filipinos arrived here from Sabah early Sunday after they were deported by Malaysian authorities.
Malaysian authorities have barred the humanitarian team sent by the Philippine government from entering Lahad Datu, stopping the group at Kota Kinabalu, a member of the team told the INQUIRER on Saturday.
Police and military forces in Western Mindanao went on high security alert on Friday after Malaysian police raided a village in Sabah and expelled armed followers of the sultan of Sulu from a village that the intruders had occupied for nearly three weeks.
Even President Aquino is unsure if Sultan Jamalul Kiram III is the rightful heir of the Sulu sultanate, whose dominion once encompassed the Sulu archipelago and North Borneo. He also doubted his capability to finance an operation involving at least 235 followers who went to Sabah.
Despite the potential threat to the peace process in Mindanao it supports, the United States is staying away from the Sabah crisis, saying it is a problem that only the leaders of the Philippines and Malaysia can deal with.
