More Sabah horror stories surface, says CHR exec

This March 9, 2013, photo released by Malaysia’s Ministry of Defense, shows a beach area which is believed to be the area where a group of Filipino gunmen entered near Tanduo village in Lahad Datu, Borneo’s Sabah state, Malaysia. Malacañang on Monday, March 11, 2013, said it was holding on to the promise of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to protect the 800,000 Filipinos living and working in Sabah. AP PHOTO/MALAYSIA’S MINISTRY OF DEFENSE

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines— More stories about the alleged brutality of the Malaysian police have surfaced despite a denial by the Malaysian government of a Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) story detailing how Filipinos were being treated in Sabah.

Lawyer Laisa Alamia, director of the Commission on Human Rights in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told the PDI on Tuesday that the stories horrified and affected her emotionally.

She said her office was preparing a report based on the accounts of Filipinos who fled Sabah so that the national government could start a probe into the reported abuses.