Friday, March 1, 2013


 BERITA NUSANTARA


Pertikaian Malaysia-Filipina berakhir dengan baku tembak

 Jangan menguji kesabaran kami. Kesabaran kami telah mencapai batas...
Manila (ANTARA News) - Pertikaian antara pasukan keamanan Malaysia dengan sekelompok warga Filipina bersenjata, Jumat, berakhir dengan baku tembak yang menewaskan setidaknya dua polisi.

Kantor berita resmi Malaysia Bernama mengatakan dua polisi tewas akibat satu serangan mortir dan dua lainnya cedera setelah pasukan keamanan berusaha menghalau sekitar 100 warga Filipina yang mengasingkan diri di negara bagian Sabah, Malaysia timur, selama lebih dari dua pekan terakhir.

Kelompok suku Filipina bersenjata yang mengklaim diri sebagai pengikut Kesultanan Sulu di Filipina selatan menuntut pengakuan serta uang ganti rugi dari Pemerintah Malaysia karena telah membunuh 10 anggota mereka.

Filipina hanya mengonfirmasi seorang di antara anggota kelompok itu tewas, dan mengatakan 10 orang lainnya menyerah sedangkan sisanya lari ke arah laut.

Kedua pemerintah mendesak kelompok itu pulang dan PM Najib, seperti dikutip Bernama, Jumat, mengatakan kesabarannya telah habis.

"Jangan menguji kesabaran kami. Kesabaran kami telah mencapai batas," katanya.

"Kita berencana mengusir mereka. Mereka harus menyerah dan pergi," kata Najib, yang harus menyelenggarakan pemilu pada April dan mendapat tekanan oposisi karena membiarkan konflik aneh itu berlarut-larut.

Raul Hernandez, juru bicara Departemen Luar Negeri Filipina, mengutip pernyataan duta besar Malaysia untuk Manila mengatakan konflik itu telah selesai.

Konfrontasi itu mengancam meningkatnya ketegangan antara Filipina dan Malaysia, karena hubungan dua negara secara periodik dilanda masalah-masalah keamanan dan migrasi di sepanjang perbatasan laut.

Surat kabar Malaysia The Star memberitakan setidaknya dua pria bersenjata tewas dan tiga polisi cedera.

Satu rumah sakit di Sandakan, sekitar 90 km dari lokasi pertikaian di Lahad Datu, menyatakan kepada Reuters pihaknya telah menerima tiga personel polisi yang cedera.

Pemimpin kelompok itu sebelumnya mengemukakan kepada radio Filipina mereka telah dikepung polisi Malaysia yang memperingatkan dalam beberapa hari belakangan ini bahwa batas waktu mereka untuk pergi telah habis.

Kelompok bersenjata itu menuntut pengakuan dari Malaysia dan merundingkan kembali ketentuan-ketentuan asli tentang Sabah yang disewakan oleh Kesultanan Sulu itu kepada satu perusahaan dagang Inggris pada abad ke-19.

Para pejabat Malaysia mengatakan tuntutan kelompok itu tidak akan dipenuhi.

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Lahad Datu stand-off: Two Sulu gunmen shot dead

FELDA SAHABAT (LAHAD DATU): At least two Sulu gunmen are believed killed and three policemen injured in an encounter in Tanduo village this morning.
According to first reports emerging from Tanduo village, the three injured cops were being airlifted to Sandakan.
As of 12.45pm, villagers say they were still hearing gunshots.
However, Malaysian security forces have yet to confirm the first reports emerging from gunfire heard at Tanduo village from about 11am Friday.
Police have also decline to comment if the gunfire was the start of a move against the gunmen led by Azzimudie Kiram, the younger brother of self proclaimed Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III.
The Star's attempt to contact Azzimudie went into answering mode but he has reportedly told a Philippines radio around 10.20am that they were being shot at and they had to defend themselves.
He claimed there were casualties on his side.
Azzimudie, who claimed that he was also involved in the shooting, said that the Malaysian security forces suddenly came in and the fire fight started.
He said he did not know if any of the Malaysian policemen were injured but he vowed not to retreat or call for a ceasefire.
Azzimudie said that his group will not retreat or call for a ceasefire but continue to defend themselves at Tanduo village which they have been occupied by about 180 followers including 30 gunmen since Feb 9.
As word of the shooting filtered out, parents in Lahad Datu and surrounding Felda Sahabat oil palm plantations and nearby Tungku, rushed to pick up their children, forcing schools to close.
Many shops in Lahad Datu town about 165kms away from Felda Sahabat 17 had also closed.
At the entrance to Felda Sahabat 17 where the Sulu group is holed up there heavy security presence with at least two ambulances of standby with a medical team.
- Dari The Star on line

 

Lahad Datu: Two police commandos dead, four others injured


LAHAD DATU: Two police commandos are killed after police started their operations on the Sulu gunmen following a stand-off which started on Feb 9.
Bernama reports that the commandos were killed in a mortar attack after police moved in at the Tanduo village here on Friday.
Four other policemen were injured in the operations.
 - dari: Star on line

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