February 25, 2013
The Lahad Datu Standoff: Give Malaysians a FACTs
by R. Nadeswaran (02-24-13) @http://www.thesundaily.com
AS THIS mainstay is being written, there have been scores of intruders in this 
country. No a single knows a expect number in Tanduo in Lahad Datu locale in Sabah, though it varies depending upon where it is entrance from. But a Inspector General of Police says a public should not be shabby by online reports upon a standoff, which he pronounced were being spread by amicable media networks.
From what has been reported, they have been subjects of a Sulu Sultan as well as a ultimate is which he has asked a United Nations Commission upon Human Rights (UNCHR) to help his supporters who have been running out of provisions.
According to The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sultan Jamalul Kiram III wrote
to a UNCHR in Manila upon February 20, asking for insurance for 250 members of a "Royal Security Forces of a Sultanate of Sulu as well as North Borneo" whose lives, he said, were in jeopardy by a food blockade thrown by Malaysia.
Jamalul has additionally created to Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei asking for help in solution a deadlock in Tanduao peacefully. The UNCHR was furnished with a duplicate of Jamalul's minute to a Sultan of Brunei, additionally dated February 20.
In a absence of central bulletins or announcements fr! om a Pol ice, what choices have a people got? Even a expect numbers have been misty as well as upon a Net, it varies from 100 to 400.
Since a authorities have no control over a press in a Philippines, it has left to locale with its stories as well as commentaries. The Philippine Daily Inquirer additionally says Malaysia is in a no-win situation as a result of a deadlock in Sabah.
"If it uses deadly force upon a tiny group of armed Filipino Muslims right away holed up in a village members of a fiercest of Philippine Moro tribe, a Tausogs of Sulu as well as Tawi-Tawi, will retaliate.
"If, upon a alternative hand, Malaysia compromises with a armed group purportedly belonging to a Sultanate of Sulu, it will be viewed as a baby by its neighbours."
But that's not all. A explanation by Ramon Tulfo in a same newspaper makes constrained celebration of a mass since you have been not articulate about just a group as well as women who arrived by boat three weeks ago, though something more sinister. He says which even prior to a alighting of 200 group in Lahad Datu, a Sulu Sultanate had sent armed group in tiny groups to Sabah to shun notice from authorities.
"The armed groups have been being coddled by Tausogs in a Malaysian state," he wrote.That explain should make every Malaysian lay up as well as ask: "What a ruin is function to a country." All you know is which a IGP has told us which a "situation is underneath control as well as you know what you have been doing."
And Tulfo adds insult to injury by saying: "When a (Philippines) supervision was fighting a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in a 1970s by a 1980s, Malaysia was personally supporting a rebellion in a South. Weapons entrance from Libya as well as alternative Middle East countries passed by Malaysia upon their approach to a MNLF. Now, it seems a shoe is upon a alternative foot. The law of kismet is being played out."
After all, a information on top of did not come from newly-set height by a little anti-national elements. It comes from The Daily Inquirer which is a single of a many at large read as well as respected newspapers in which country.
While Malaysians do understand a need to be secretive of confidence operations, what they have been asking for is daily updates upon a situation which threatens a nation as a whole. It cannot be discharged as a internal complaint as it involves a government as well as territorial firmness of this country.
No a single wants bloodshed. No a single wants to see dead bodies. No a single wants to discuss it a military how to deal with a complaint they know best as they have been trained for such purposes. No a single even knows their motives or what they want. No a single knows if they have taken hostages or have assigned strategic positions in a area. In short, you have been blanked by a silence of officialdom.
No a single is asking for operational details though it will be a service to all Malaysians if you have been told a truth, as well as nothing though a truth.
R. Nadeswaran is editor (special as well as inquisitive reporting) at theSun. Comments: citizen-nades@thesundaily.com
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