TANJUNG LABIAN (Lahad Datu): Police have been set to finish a stand-off with a Sulu organisation holed in Tandou village, about 165km from here, as a armed intruders ignored last-minute attempts by Malaysian as well as Philippines authorities to get them to leave Sabah peacefully.
The group, led by Raja Muda Azzimudie Kiram, a hermit of self-proclaimed Sulu Ruler Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, remained daring as well as had deserted a ultimate ask by PhilippinePresident Benigno Aquinoand Malaysia's emissaries nonetheless 3 deadlines since to them were extended, with a last finale yesterday.
In a telephone conversation withThe Star, Azzimudie pronounced his organisation was ready to face an attack.
"We have been fine. We design a Malaysian forces to attack today (Tuesday). We have been ready to urge ourselves, you have been not afraid," he said.
Asked why he suspicion a organisation would be attacked, he replied: "Because it is shown on TV as well as was in a radio that a deadline is over. We have been not fearful since you know you have been right. This is our land."
Asked if he was not fearful as he usually had about thirty armed men, Azzimudie said: "We have been prepared, you have been waiting. We will not attack (but) you will urge ourselves."
Azzimudie, who has also been in telephone contact with his brother, had stated that he would usually take orders from Jamalul Kiram.
In a meantime, a secretary-general of a supposed sultanate, Abraham Idjirani, pronounced tha! t a orga nisation deserted Aquino's appeal to return to a Philippines.
After gripping a Sulu patriots shut in for scarcely 3 weeks, Malaysian confidence forces, who had been waiting for an sequence to lame a group, done their participation at multiform vital locations in as well as outside a surrounding Felda plantations yesterday.
Government as well as armed forces healing teams have been on standby should a green light be since to deport a Sulu group.
Asked if a pierce opposite a Sulu intruders will be done inside of a subsequent twenty-four hours, Deputy Inspector-General of PoliceDatuk Khalid Abu Bakarsaid: "Maybe. We have been set to finish a stand-off."
In a nationally televised statement from Malacanang, Aquino appealed to a Sulu Sultan to finish a stand-off peacefully or face a full force of a law.
He said: "The point of no return has not been reached yet, though you have been coming that (time) fast."
Stating that there were 180 people in a Sulu group, with about twenty to thirty armed, Aquino warned that as adults of a Philippines, they were firm by its laws as well as a constitution that renounces fight as an instrument of national policy.
Presiden Filipina Beri Amaran Kepada Sultan Sulu
Sitti Krishna Idjirami (kiri), adik kepada Sultan Sulu Jamalul Kiram III (tengah) dan Putera Mahkota Bantillan Kiram (kanan) bercakap pada sidang media di Manila, Selasa.
MANILA:Presiden Filipina Benigno Aquino memberi amaran kepada Sultan Sulu pada Selasa bahawa beliau akan berdepan tindakan undang-undang sekiranya tidak menamatkan pencerobohan pengikutnya di Sabah.
Aquino memberitahu Sultan Jam! alul Kir am III untuk memanggil pulang 180 pengikutnya supaya meninggalkan sebuah perkampungan nelayan dekat Lahad Datu yang diceroboh masuk sejak 9 Februari lalu.
"Sekiranya anda memilih untuk tidak bekerjasama, tindakan undang-undang negara ini akan digunakan untuk mencapai keadilan bagi semua.
"Keadaan seperti ini tidak boleh berterusan. Jika anda seorang pemimpin sebenar pengikut anda, anda perlu bekerjasama dengan kami dalam mengarahkan mereka pulang secara aman," kata Aquino dalam satu kenyataan yang disiarkan sebuah stesen televisyen tempatan.
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