From Malaya Business Insight (Sep 17): 3 Indonesians freed by Abu Sayyaf in Sulu
THREE Indonesians were freed by the Abu Sayyaf group in Sulu on Saturday, almost 20 months since they were kidnapped in Tawi-Tawi.
Hamdam Salim, 34, Subandi Sattuh, 27, and Sudarlan Samansung, 41 were released around 4 p.m. and subsequently recovered by the military in Barangay Buanza in Indanan town, Lt. Col. Gerry Besana, spokesman of the AFP’s Western Mindanao Command, said yesterday.
The release brings to 11 the number of individuals still in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu.
The three were seized by the Abu Sayyaf off Taganak Island in Tawi-Tawi on January 18 last year, and later brought to Sulu, a known bailiwick of the group.
Besana said there is no information on whether ransom was paid. “What we know is they are pressured (by the military operations),” he said.
He said the release was made possible through the joint efforts of the military’s Joint Task Force Sulu under Brig. Gen. Divino Rey Pabayo, former Sulu Gov. Abdusakur Tan, and other stakeholders.
A report from the police in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said the three were released to the Moro National Liberation Front which brokered for their release.
They were then turned over to former Sulu Gov. Abdusakur Tan before they were brought to the Joint Task Force Sulu and Senior Supt. Pablo Larra II, chief of the Sulu police.
Besana said operations continue to secure the freedom of the remaining kidnap victims -- nine Filipinos, a Dutch, and a Vietnamese.
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