Having entered Sabah 26 days ago, there is no indication that the armed Sulu terrorists wanted to surrender.
Instead, in an eight-hour firefight at Kampung Tanjung Batu in Lahad Datu last night, the intruders took on an aggressive stance, shooting and injuring two members of the General Operations Force (GOF).
Reacting to the defiance of the terrorists, Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib believes the terrorists have no desire to surrender or call for a truce, as reported by the Philippine media.
In a follow-up operation, the security forces, involving the police and armed forces, continued their joint operation to track down the terrorists, with the public again reminded not to approach the 'Red Zone' which was established since the offensive started on Tuesday.
A boy, aged between 12 and 15, was shot and killed this morning, when the security forces were aggressively detecting the enemy.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said, the shooting incident occurred when members of the security forces heard noises from nearby shrubs while questioning two men and three women in Kampung Sungai Bilis.
"The security forces spontaneously fired towards the shrubs," he told a media conference at 4.40pm today.
Ismail said, 96 individuals, suspected to be connected with the Sulu militant group which intruded into Lahad Datu on Feb 12, were also detained.
He said, 66 others were also apprehended for entering the forbidden zone in the 'Ops Daulat' area launched on Tuesday.
The offensive was also expanded to a new area in Kampung Tanjung Batu after the security forces had focused on a mopping-up operation in Kampung Tanduo, about five kilometres from the village.
Meanwhile, in the Semporna district, the police detained four individuals suspected to be intruders.
They were among 33 people detained during a two-hour operation at Kampung Pinggir Bakau as they were suspected to have protected, and directly involved with the Sulu terrorists and relaying security information to the enemy.
The sixth day of the operation to flush out the foreign terrorists also saw a group of journalists and photographers bumping into an armed militant during a survey at Kampung Labian, about 20km from the media centre, at Residental Felda Sahabat.
A man, clad in black and holding a firearm was spotted standing near an oil palm tree, about six metres from their position. However, the group was not harmed.
Villagers were also seen hurriedly leaving their homes, fearing for their lives, after hearing shots in the vicinity of the village.
In the conflict which started on Feb 12, eight policemen were killed while 53 terrorists were shot dead.
Bernama
FORMER UMNO BLOOD BROTHERS NOW "TERRORISTS"?
ReplyDeleteJust over a month before the outbreak violence, the Sulu people and illegals were still welcome with open arms by UMNO and its Sabahan followers as if they were brothers.
Indeed the invaders may all have relations in Sabah already and may be hiding them. That is why they have melted away into the crowd.
UMNO realising what a big blunder it has made by giving safe haven and training the insurgents in Sabah all these years and even kept alive the Sulu claim by paying cession money- now conveniently turned on the people they were relying to keep them in power.
Overnight the invaders became "terrorists". This is an overused word which mean that UMNO's occupation army can shoot to kill on sight anyone suspected of being a terrorists.
UMNO will claim credit for heroically defending Sabah and suppressing the terrorists.
But Sabahans don't be fooled again. All the danger Sabah is being exposed to is UMNO's doing and nothing it will do can change the fact that UMNO has been abusing Sabahan's rights and playing with the security and future.
Malaysia exists because UMNO army occupies Sabah and Sarawak illegally and until Sabahans and Sarawakians take back control of their countries, they will always be at their mercies of the UMNO terrorist regime.
Op Daulat yang memasuki hari keenam hari ini menyaksikan kumpulan pengganas dari selatan Filipina terus digempur kerana tiada tanda mereka mahu menyerah diri sejak menceroboh Sabah 26 hari lepas.
ReplyDeleteKumpulan penceroboh sebaliknya bertindak agresif sehingga menyebabkan dua anggota Pasukan Gerakan Am (PGA) cedera dalam insiden berbalas tembakan yang berlarutan selama lapan jam di Kampung Tanjung Batu, Lahad Datu malam semalam.
ReplyDeleteTindakan itu mendapat reaksi segera Pesuruhjaya Polis Sabah Datuk Hamza Taib yang menyifatkan kumpulan pengganas itu tidak berhasrat menyerah diri atau melakukan gencatan senjata seperti yang dilaporkan media Filipina.
ReplyDeleteSusulan itu, pasukan keselamatan membabitkan polis dan angkatan tentera yang membentuk Op Daulat meneruskan operasi menjejak pengganas, dengan orang ramai sekali lagi diingatkan supaya tidak menghampiri kawasan Zon Merah yang ditetapkan sejak gerakan ofensif dimulakan Selasa lepas.
ReplyDeleteA Muslim royal clan leader met a top Philippine government official to discuss possible ways of resolving a deadly crisis that started when his brother and 200 others invaded a village in Malaysia’s Sabah state to revive an old claim to the territory.
ReplyDeleteEsmail Kiram II told The Associated Press on Monday that he told Interior Secretary Mar Roxas that Malaysia needed to agree to a cease-fire to allow talks aimed at resolving the weekslong Sabah standoff that has sparked the worst security crisis in years for the neighboring Southeast Asian countries.
ReplyDeleteHe and Roxas declined to provide other details of their closed-door discussion, which included other members of Kiram’s clan from the southern Philippines.
ReplyDeleteMalaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak rejected an earlier call for a cease-fire and demanded Kiram’s younger brother, Agbimuddin, who led the invasion into Sabah last month, to lay down his arms unconditionally and surrender to his men. The Philippine government also called on him to give up.
ReplyDeleteMalaysia has run the resource-rich frontier region of timberlands and palm oil plantations in northern Borneo as its second-largest federal state since the 1960s.
ReplyDeleteA Malaysian crackdown to flush out Kiram and his followers on Sabah in northern Borneo island has sparked accusations of human rights violations and arbitrary arrests of Filipinos, who have long settled there in search of work and opportunities, and to escape from the poverty and a decades-long Muslim insurgency in the southern Philippines. Malaysian officials denied the accusations.
ReplyDeleteLahad Datu: Tanduo declared clean, 97 militants captured in Ops Daulat
ReplyDeleteLAHAD DATU: The police announced on Monday that Tanduo, the landing site of militant intruders a month ago, is free of the Sulu gunmen.
Security forces are now focusing on getting rid of the remaining militant intruders in the Tanjung Batu and Sungai Bilis areas.
On Sunday, a terrorist was shot dead in Kampung Tanjung Batu, making the total number of militant intruders killed 54
Lahad Datu: Tanduo declared clean, 97 militants captured in Ops Daulat
ReplyDeleteNinety-seven people were detained for suspected involvement with the gunmen, said Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib.
He said security forces also held 122 people for being in the prohibited zone of Ops Daulat.
On March 8, security forces launched an offensive against the terrorist group, followed by a search to hunt them down.
Lahad Datu: Tanduo declared clean, 97 militants captured in Ops Daulat
ReplyDeleteSpeaking at a press conference with Army Infantry Division Commander Mej-Gen Datuk Ahmad Zaki Mokhtar here, Hamza said the bodies of 22 terrorists were sent to the hospital for post-mortem.
He also allowed journalists to take pictures of the bodies to preempt allegations of certain groups questioning the number of terrorists killed.
Hamza rubbished the claim that the self-proclaimed Raja Muda Azzimuddie Kiram, who headed the intrusion, had escaped the security forces dragnet in Semporna.
Lahad Datu: Tanduo declared clean, 97 militants captured in Ops Daulat
ReplyDelete"If I knew he was in Semporna, I would have long captured him," he said, also denying reports that security forces subjected the Sulu community to brutality.
To date, no police report has been made against security forces that its members had used violence, he added.
Lahad Datu: More bodies of Sulu gunmen in Kg Tanduo, says Sabah CPO
ReplyDeleteLAHAD DATU: More bodies of Sulu gunmen are believed to be buried in Kampung Tanduo than previously discovered.
Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib said he had new information that there were up to 15 bodies buried there.
"We believe there are more bodies buried in the same grave and in other graves nearby.
"Our men will be going back to investigate," he told the morning press conference here Tuesday.
Nine bodies of the gunmen were initially discovered in a hole by security forces after a strike on the village on March 6 where the armed intruders had been holed up since Feb 9.
Hamza also confirmed that the body of Haji Musa, a general of the Sulu group led by Azzimudie Kiram, was recovered from Kampung Tanjung Batu.
"One more body was recovered from Kg Tanjung Batu today, bringing the total number of bodies recovered to 23," added Hamza.
The death toll for the gunmen remains at 54 and no shootings were reported since Monday.
Malaysian security forces launched an all-out offensive against the group last Tuesday after attempts to end the three-week stand-off peacefully failed.
Every cloud has a silver lining, and taxi drivers here can attest to that.
ReplyDeleteMany shops have been closed for business following the Sulu gunmen's appearance but taxi drivers and car rental operators are earning big bucks from the hoards of pressmen who have descended upon the district to cover the intrusion.
ReplyDeleteLahad Datu taxi and car rental association chairman Jalalkamis Raupong said the arrival of Malaysian and international journalists had been good for their business.
ReplyDeleteMalaysia should consider applying to have the self-proclaimed Sultan of Sulu charged at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for ordering the invasion on Sabah and murdering security personnel, a legal expert said.
ReplyDeleteDr Siva Ananthan, a former governing council member of the Asean Law Association (ALA), said Malaysia had a strong case as various news reports had quoted Sultan Jamalul Kiram III expressing support for the invasion and saying the intruders reported to him.
ReplyDeleteThis is well and great.
ReplyDeleteTembak saja siapa yang memberontak sana.
ReplyDeleteContinually attacking our forces.
ReplyDeleteMind you, don't play with the armed forces.
ReplyDeleteMessing up with Malaysian authorities, you will be dead.
ReplyDeleteYou surrendered or died.
ReplyDeleteThis case will prolong if they continually making fun of it.
ReplyDeletePrime Minister Najib Tun Razak said that the group or armed Filipino intruders in Kampung Tanduo, Lahad Datu, should accept the offer to surrender and leave the area as soon as possible.
ReplyDelete“We have been very courteous in tackling the intrusion issue in Lahad Datu. We are trying to prevent bloodshed and to solve the issue nicely, but those involved must realise that what they did was a big and serious mistake.
ReplyDelete“They should take our offer to withdraw from the area as soon as possible. The longer they stay, the more dangerous the situation will be for them,” he told reporters.
ReplyDelete“We will not let this issue to prolong. I would like to give the assurance that we view this issue very seriously and we will do what it takes to defend the sovereignty of our country.”-Najib
ReplyDeleteNajib also agreed with the recent remarks made by Philippine President Benigno Aquino calling the intruders not to test the patience of Malaysian authorities.
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