Philippines Has Work to Prevent Clashes Sabah

MANILA, KOMPAS.com - A spokesman for President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday (5/3), said that the Philippines has been doing all it can to prevent violence dilalukan finally broke in Sabah.

Malaysia today launched an onslaught against the Philippine armed groups there. Earlier, as many as 27 people have reportedly been killed in clashes since the followers Jamalul Kiram III, heir to the Sulu Kesultan, landed in Sabah on February 12 with the ship.
"We have done everything we can to prevent it, but in the end, people Kiram choose this path," Aquino's spokesman, Ricky Carandang, about armed men, who claimed some parts of Sabah as part of the Filipino Muslim sultanate which now no longer exists.
Carandang said the Philippines Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario, still in Kuala Lumpur for talks with counterparts from Malaysia regarding the security crisis in Sabah it.
A spokesman for the government of Malaysia in Sabah on Tuesday, said a surgery done to clean up the remnants of armed men, who were hiding in the village Tanduo.
Meanwhile, a spokesman of the Manila Kiram, the self-proclaimed Sultan of Sulu, said the leader of the armed men were reported to him by telephone that fighting was taking place in Sabah. "Nothing can be done about it now," said Abraham Idjirani spokesman, noting that the men had earlier announcement that they will fight to the end remained unchanged.
"We are not intruders. They (Malaysia) are the people who occupy the land of our ancestors," he said.
The power of the Sultanate of Sulu faded about a century ago, but descendants continued to receive payments from Malaysia by the lease over Sabah. Pasa agreement came during British colonial rule.
Sources: http://internasional.kompas.com/read/2013/03/05/13292951/