Menteri Pertahanan dan Menteri KDN telah buat sidang akhbar petang semalam(6hb Mar 2013). Pada sidang media tersebut, kedua-dua menteri tersebut telah menunjukkan beberapa keping gambar kesan daripada operasi pengeboman di tempat pendaratan tentera penceroboh. 13 mayat penceroboh telah ditemui dalam satu kubur, mengikut kenyataan pada siadang akhbar tersebut. Tidak dipastikan mayat-mayat tersebut kesan daripada operasi pengeboman atau pun seri tembak menembak sebelum ini.
Tidak lama selepas itu Panglima Angkatan Tentera kemudian mengesahkan mayat-mayat tersebut terbunuh sejak jumaat lagi. Iaitu ketika berlakunya seri berbalas tembak antara polis Malaysia dengan tentera penceroboh.
Versi Filipina.
MANILA, Philippines - The bodies of 13 slain Sulu sultanate army members were discovered from a mass grave in Lahad Datu, Sabah on Wednesday as Malaysian forces scoured the island state for the supporters of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III.
Reports by Malaysian news agencies The Star and Bernama quoted Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi as saying that Malaysian forces were still "in the process of collecting more bodies."
The reports said that photographs of the bodies and the mass grave were shown by the official during a press briefing..........................................................Baca selanjutnya berita ini
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian security forces scouring rugged terrain in Sabah on Wednesday briefly battled with members of the Sulu Sultanate's army who were on the run after being bombarded with airstrikes and mortar fire, police said. One member of the royal army was shot and believed killed.
The capture of nearly 200 members of the Sultanate of Sulu led by Agbimuddin Kiram, brother of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, would ease public nervousness in Malaysia's resource-rich eastern state of Sabah, which has been shaken in the past week by the killing of eight police officers and 19 Filipino gunmen who slipped into neighboring Malaysia.
Malaysian soldiers and police on Tuesday attacked the area that the royal army has occupied for three weeks in an extraordinary siege intended to highlight their territorial claim to the entire state of Sabah, which the Kiram clan insists is their ancestral birthright.Baca selanjutnya berita ini
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KUALA LUMPUR—“They are alive and kicking,” so claimed the spokesman of the Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III after Malaysia launched air strikes and mortar attacks on Tuesday against nearly 200 Filipinos occupying a Borneo coastal village.
Jets pounded the area in eastern Sabah state for more than 30 minutes before hundreds of ground troops moved in to search for the Filipino armed men believed to be hiding near a coastal palm oil plantation in Lahad Datu, according to Malaysian officials.
Abraham Idjirani, a spokesman for the Filipinos, said he spoke by phone with Kiram’s brother, Agbimuddin Kiram, who saw jets dropping two bombs on a nearby village that the group had abandoned.
“They could hear the sounds of bombs and the exchange of fire,” Idjirani said. “The truth is they are nervous. Who will not be nervous when you are against all odds?”
He said the sultan’s followers would “find a way to sneak to safety.”
“If this is the last stand that we can take to let the world know about our cause, then let it be,” Idjirani said, describing the assault as “overkill.”
Idjirani said that Agbimuddin and his men were “alive and kicking” in Lahad Datu. “The bombs dropped fell on Malaysian forces,” Idjirani said.
Earlier Malaysia’s national police chief Ismail Omar had also raised doubts about the success of the air and ground attack, saying “mopping up” operations had yet to find any bodies and suggesting at least some of the militants might have slipped away. The three-week-old standoff has killed eight Malaysian police officers and 19 Filipino armed men. Baca berita ini selanjutnya
Persoalannya sekarang(klik di sini)
Adakah benar operasi serangan udara itu berjaya membunuh sebahagian tentera penceroboh. Persoalan ini tak akan timbul sekiranya media tempatan telus dan bebas. Mesyarakat tak kan bergantung media luar untuk mencari versi yang berlainan, sekiranya media arus perdana tidak berselindung dalam memberikan laporan yang telus.
