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TRAGEDI 1313:Pencerobohan di Lahad Datu <Semoga Tentera Malaysia Selamat>UPDATE Pg1

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Sulu sultan says followers won't leave Lahad Datu

MANILA (AFP): Followers of a Philippine sultan who crossed in to Sabah last week will not leave and are reclaiming the area as their ancestral territory, the sultan said Sunday amid a tense standoff.

Sultan Jamalul Kiram said his followers - some 400 people, including 20 gunmen - were resolute in staying despite being cornered by security forces, with the Kuala Lumpur government insisting the group return to the Philippines.

"Why should we leave our own home? In fact they (the Malaysians) are paying rent (to us)," he told reporters in Manila.

"Our followers will stay in (the Sabah town of) Lahad Datu. Nobody will be sent to the Philippines. Sabah is our home," he said.

The sultan did not directly threaten violence but said "there will be no turning back for us".

Malaysian officials have said that many of the group have weapons, but Kiram insisted his followers made the trip unarmed.

"If they have arms, they were already in Sabah," the sultan said.

The southern Philippine-based Islamic sultanate once controlled parts of Borneo, including the site of the stand-off, and its heirs have been receiving a nominal yearly compensation package from Malaysia under a long-standing agreement for possession of Sabah.

Kiram said he was prompted to send the group to Sabah after the sultanate was left out of a framework agreement sealed in October between Manila and Filipino Muslim rebels, which paves the way for an autonomous area in the southern Philippines that is home to the Muslim minority of the largely-Christian nation.

The sultanate's spokesman, Abraham Idjirani, later said the sultan's brother Raja Muda Abimuddin Kiram, who led the group to Sabah, had told him via telephone that the party was preparing to stay.

"The objective is to reside now in that place permanently, considering the sultanate owns Sabah by rights of sovereignty," he told AFP.

Idjirani said there were about 400 followers of the sultanate in the area, including about 20 who were armed.

On Thursday, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein put the number at between 80 to 100 gunmen.

Idjirani said the group would not instigate violence but would resist if provoked.

"We recognise the capability of Malaysia. We don't have the arms and capacity but we have the historical truth," he said, adding that the group's "fate is to see the recognition they are entitled to... or they die defending their ancestral rights".

Idjirani said President Benigno Aquino's senior aides had been in contact with the sultan and were willing to deliver a letter to the Malaysian government on his behalf for negotiations.

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Just info, tentera di semenanjung tidak dikerah ke Sabah,kerana kekuatan tentera di Sabah mampu menangani krisis disana, pihak kerajaan akan berunding dgn pihak sulu,untuk mengelak dari campurtangan pihak asing sekiranya berlaku pertempuran..memang benar lebih Dari 100 orang bersenjata yg masuk di lahad datu..
 
sekumpulan askar brsama sultan pergi belayar..
Stelah blayar lama, mereka khabisan bekalan shingga benar kehausan dan kelaparan..

Kebetulan sekumpulan lanun trjumpa dgn kapal sultan trsbut.

Lanun : kmu smua akan kami bunuh slepas kami rompak hrta kmu..

Sultan : kmi benar2 tdk brdaya mlawan, ambil la apa saja yg kmu mau, tp tlng bagi kmi air minum.

Lanun : kmi tdk ada air minum tp hanya ada bir dlm tin..

Sultan : dlm keadaan darurat, bir tdk haram, jd tlng la bg kmi...

Setelah pihak sultan mnum 1 tin, dia pun membuat pengakuan kpd lanun..

Sultan : sebenarnya saya adalah SULTAN...

Lanun : cis, potongan..bru 1 tin sdh mengaku sultan(ktawa trbahak2)

Rasanya ini la sultan yg mau ambil sabah.
 
Mat Zain: Isu di Lahad Datu tak ubah seperti kes al-maunah
Seorang bekas pegawai tinggi polis berkata rakyat sepatutnya menuntut agar kumpulan warga asing bersenjata yang dikepung pihak berkuasa di Lahad Datu, Sabah ditangani dengan keras seperti tindakan ke atas kumpulan al-Maunah dalam insiden tahun 2000 di Sauk, Perak.

Bekas Pengarah Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Kuala Lumpur Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim memberi alasan, situasi yang berlaku di Kampung Tandou, Lahad Datu itu tidak banyak berbeza dengan peristiwa di Bukit Jenalik itu.

"Jika kes Sauk boleh diklasifikasi sebagai 'melancarkan atau cuba melancarkan perang ke atas Yang Di-Pertuan Aong atau Yang Di-Pertua Negeri', yang merupakan kesalahan ke atas Negara, maka rakyat boleh menuntut agar undang-undang sama dikenakan ke atas penceroboh Sulu ini.

"Jika rakyat kita sendiri terlibat dalam insiden Sauk boleh dilucutkan senjata atau dibunuh oleh pasukan keselamatan dan kemudiannnya didakwa di mahkamah dan beberapa orang daripadanya dihukum gantung, maka rakyat berhak untuk menyuarakan kemarahan mereka sekiranya perdana menteri (Datuk Seri Najib Razak) yang menjadi menteri pertahanan semasa insiden Sauk, menangani penceroboh ini dengan tindakan ringan," katanya.

Katanya, peguam negara Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, yang bertindak sebagai ketua pendakwa dalam perbicaraan kes melibatkan kumpulan al-Maunah, seharusnya menasihati Yang Di-Pertuan Agong dan perdana menteri berhubung peruntukan undang-undang dalam menangangi kumpulan di Lahad Datu.

Tambahnnya, Abdul Gani "pasti dapat mengingati ramuan untuk membuktikan kes yang berlaku di kampung halamannya".

Beliau juga memberi amaran bahawa golongan yang cuba mengeksploitasi insiden Lahad Datu untuk memperbaiki profil politik Najib tidak akan berjaya berbuat demikian.

"Sekiranya tindakan yang diambil ke atas penceroboh bersenjata di Kampung Tanduo, Lahad Datuk kurang berat berbanding tindakan ke atas rakyat kita sendiri dalam insiden Sauk, maka tindakan berkenaan akan dianggap memalukan, khianat, dan pengecut oleh perdana menteri," katanya lagi dalam satu tulisan hari ini.
 
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