Kiram's camp made the claim at a press briefing in Taguig City, even as they insisted they did not order the followers to attack, radio dzBB's Divine Caraecle reported.
Quoting the Kiram camp, the report said the Sulu Sultanate had no order for its followers in Sabah to hold the officials hostage.
Instead, it instructed them to respect the captured Malaysians' rights.
A report on Malaysia's The Star said at least five policemen had been killed when they were ambushed at a village on stilts in Semporna, an east coast town, late Saturday.
It quoted police Inspector General Tan Sri Ismail Omar as saying two of the gunmen were killed in the shootout, while police had encircled the village to track the remaining gunmen.
He said security forces are hunting 10 men, three of whom were armed and seen wearing military fatigues.
Ismail also said police are trying to establish if the incidents in Semporna and Kunak were connected to the standoff at Kampung Tanduo in Lahad Datu that ended in a bloody clash Friday.
So far, he said police had arrested three men trying to slip through a security cordon around Kampung Tanduo late Saturday. He said the three were armed with a knife.
Security tightened at village
An earlier report on The Star online said two of the policemen slain in Kampunt Seri Jaya Siminul were a superintendent and a sergeant.
Police commissioner Datuk Hamza Atib said another policeman and a villager were injured in the incident.
Hamza said police are looking into whether the group had links to the armed intruders claiming to be from the royal army of the Sulu Sultanate in the Philippines.
Meanwhile, the report said some families in the affected village filled up on gas and prepared to leave the village following the overnight clash.
"We have been told to stay indoors or leave as security measures have been taken against the intruders," it quoted a villager as saying. — BM, GMA News
Sultan yang baik tidak akan menganjurkan rakyatnya menceroboh ke negara lain dengan membawa segala macam senjata. Sultan yang merdeka tidak akan tunduk kepada mana-mana pihak yang cuba berkompromi soal kedaulatan wilayah pemerintahannya dengan imbalan berguni-guni harta.
ReplyDeleteTiada Sultan yang mau rakyatnya menceroboh Nrgara lain untuk kepentingan sendiri.
Deletedia bukan Sultan yang baik
DeleteSultan yang prihatin sanggup merasai sendiri penderitaan dan kesempitan hidup rakyat jelatanya. Sultan yang bijaksana mengerti bahawa terdapat undang-undang serta kod etika antarabangsa dalam mengadakan hubungan luar dengan negara-negara lain. Saved
ReplyDeleteSultan yang benar akan mendapat pengiktirafan rakyat terbanyak yang memberi sepenuh taat setia kepada Sultan. Rakyat pula sanggup meninggalkan segala kemewahan semata-mata ingin berada dekat dengan Sultan.
ReplyDeleteEmpat ciri yang apabila dipenuhi oleh sesebuah entiti ianya layak diktiraf sebagai sebuah negara:
ReplyDelete1. Sultan
2. Wilayah pemerintahan
3. Rakyat yang menumpahkan taat setia kepada Sultan
4. Kedaulatan berteraskan undang-undang.
Di antara banyak-banyak Sultan yang mengaku sebagai Kesultanan Sulu, yang mana satukah yang memenuhi ciri-ciri ini?
Kiram bukan Sultan Sulu, dia tak ada daulat
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