ByJulie Alipala and Karlos Manlupig
Inquirer Mindanao
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Interviewed by phone from Patikul, Sulu, shortly after she
arrived there Friday night with about 200 other refugees, Taradji, 32,
claimed that Malaysian policemen would order Filipino men to run as fast
as they could and would then gun them down.
Among those killed that way on Monday night during what she described as a zoning operation in a Filipino community in Sandakan was her brother, Jumadil, Taradji said.
Taradji, originally from Calinan in Davao City, is among some 400 people who have arrived in Sulu from such places in Sabah as Lahad Datu, Sempornah, Tawau and Kunak since the start of the week as violence triggered by a “homecoming” expedition to the east Malaysian state by followers of Kiram escalated.
Officials said there are now close to a thousand refugees from Sabah in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. Hundreds more have arrived in smaller Philippine island near Sabah and many more Filipinos are expected to make the sea crossing, officials said.
The Inquirer reached Taradji by phone through the help of a Sulu local official shortly after she arrived in Patikul on a commercial vessel from Sabah late Friday.
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Inquirer Mindanao
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines—“They dragged all the males
outside the house, kicked and hit them,” Amira Taradji said as she
recounted her family’s ordeal in Sandakan that started when Malaysian
security forces began cracking down on suspected supporters of Sultan
Jamalul Kiram III of Sulu.
Interviewed by phone from Patikul, Sulu, shortly after she
arrived there Friday night with about 200 other refugees, Taradji, 32,
claimed that Malaysian policemen would order Filipino men to run as fast
as they could and would then gun them down.Among those killed that way on Monday night during what she described as a zoning operation in a Filipino community in Sandakan was her brother, Jumadil, Taradji said.
Taradji, originally from Calinan in Davao City, is among some 400 people who have arrived in Sulu from such places in Sabah as Lahad Datu, Sempornah, Tawau and Kunak since the start of the week as violence triggered by a “homecoming” expedition to the east Malaysian state by followers of Kiram escalated.
Officials said there are now close to a thousand refugees from Sabah in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. Hundreds more have arrived in smaller Philippine island near Sabah and many more Filipinos are expected to make the sea crossing, officials said.
The Inquirer reached Taradji by phone through the help of a Sulu local official shortly after she arrived in Patikul on a commercial vessel from Sabah late Friday.
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