Sulu ‘volunteers’ plan Sabah
incursions
The Sulu Sultanate on Sunday said it is sending
more “volunteer” fighters to Sabah from Mindanao
to reassert its territorial claim over it and to protect the Filipinos there
who are being rounded up by Malaysian police.
Abraham Idjirani, spokesman of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram
III, said groups of Bangsa Suluk volunteers were preparing to sail to Sabah and join the 1,600-strong Royal Security Forces of
the sultanate led by Kiram’s brother, Raja Muda Agbimuddin Kiram.
“They will be going to Sabah because of the un-Islamic
rounding up of innocent civilians by the Malaysian security forces,” Idjirani
said from Kiram’s residence in Taguig
City
“They feel it is their patriotic duty to protect their
countrymen there and to show the world that Sabah
is their homeland.”
Asked how many fighters were sailing to Sabah ,
Idjirani said they had no idea yet but the fighters would be going there
quietly in waves or groups to elude the Malaysian and Philippine naval cordons.
Once in Sabah, they would be consolidating forces and
communicating with Agbimuddin, who remains in Sabah
since sailing there with 200 men in February.
“They are now driven by their belief that Malaysia does not own Sabah ,”
Idjirani said.
He said the volunteers would come from Sulu, Tawi-Tawi,
Basilan and Zamboanga.
“Our leaders told us that these Bangsa Suluks have been
itching to go to Sabah because they are angry over the Malaysians’ treatment of
the Filipino residents of Sabah ,” Idjirani
said.
He said some of the Sabah-bound volunteers would be
armed, with many of them experienced in battle, although they would not be
going to Sabah to wage war.
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2013/07/29/sulu-volunteers-plan-sabah-incursions/
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