Friday, March 15, 2013

Malaysia to PHL: You have three days to claim your dead in Sabah

From GMA News (Mar 15): Malaysia to PHL: You have three days to claim your dead in Sabah

Malaysian officials said their government has officially written to and asked the Philippines to claim the remains of Filipinos killed in an offensive against armed elements from Sulu, the Bernama news agency reported Friday.

"If there is no response in three days, we will go ahead and bury the dead, Police commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib of Sabah said in a news conference in Lahad Datu.
 
"Security forces have crippled the movement of Sulu terrorists in Sabah, and its leader Agbimuddin Kiram has fled to the Philippines," Bernama also reported via its Twitter account.
 
Bernama also quoted Hamza as saying that the "security forces have so far detained 97 suspects and 233 people for trying to enter the operation zone of Ops Daulat."

Hamza said the three-day deadline has its basis in the Geneva Conventions.

The Sabah police chief said 61 Filipinos were dead after 11 days of the joint military-police operations in a plantation in Lahad Datu.

Hamza and Major General Datuk Ahmad Zaki of the Malaysian Army said that of of late Friday afternoon 27 of the remains have been taken out of the plantation and "10 more bodies have yet to be brought out of Kampung Tanjung Batu.

Hamza added that their personnel discovered 15 bodies and three gravesites in the operations zone.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/299540/news/nation/malaysia-to-phl-you-have-three-days-to-claim-your-dead-in-sabah

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