Zahid lagi-lagi BOLOS! - Dua warga Jerman pula jadi mangsa culik di perairan Sabah - Palawan..

Khamis, 8 Mei 2014

Dah jadi macam kat perairan Somalia pulak perairan Sabah ni, lepas satu kes culik muncul satu lagi kes culik..

Dua warga Jerman di atas kapal layar didapati hilang di laut lepas di antara Palawan di Filipina dan Sabah, meningkatkan kebimbangan bahawa mereka mungkin telah diculik oleh kumpulan Abu Sayyaf.

Ketua Angkatan Tentera Filipina (AFP) Pemerintah Barat, Leftenan Jeneral Roy Deveraturda berkata yang hilang dikenal pasti sebagai Stefan Victor Okonek, 71, dan Herike Diesen, 55.

Deveraturda berkata berdasarkan laporan Pengawal Pantai Filipina, kedua-dua meninggalkan Palawan menuju ke Sabah pada 25 April setelah bersiar-siar di Mindanao.

Beliau berkata kapal layar itu telah ditemui tetapi warga Jerman masih tidak ditemui.

"Ianya disahkan. Mereka dalam perjalanan pulang ke Sabah selepas bersiar-siar di Mindanao.

"Kami mempunyai laporan dari Pengawal Pantai yang mengatakan bahawa mereka telah pergi ke Palawan, kemudian ke Sabah," lapor Manila Times hari ini..

TWO GERMANS MISSING IN PALAWAN

TWO Germans on board a yacht went missing in the high seas between Palawan and Sabah, raising fears that they were abducted by Abu Sayyaf members, a notorious kidnap-for-ransom group.

Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)-Western Command chief Lt. Gen. Roy Deveraturda on Tuesday identified the missing as Stefan Victor Okonek, 71, and Herike Diesen, 55.

Deveraturda said that based on the record of the Philippine Coast Guared, the victims left Palawan for Sabah on April 25 after going island-hopping in Mindanao.

Deveraturda said the yacht has been recovered but the Germans were nowhere to be found nor somebody claimed responsibility for their disappearance.

“It is confirmed. They were on their way back to Sabah after island hopping. We have a report from the Coast Guard that they went to Palawan, then to Sabah,” he said.

“It must be confirmed who are holding them, so everything is still open or possible. We don’t want to discount anything because our contacts have not yet confirmed [if they have been abducted],”

Deveraturda added. “So we are still exerting effort. In the meantime, we consider them as missing persons.”

Last month, Abu Sayyaf bandits kidnapped Gau Huayon, a 29-year old female tourist from Shanghai, China, and Mercelita Dayawan, 40, a Filipino hotel staff at the Singmata Reef Resort in Sabah.

The AFP confirmed that the victims were seized by seven fully-armed men belonging to the Abu Sayyaf Group.

Military spokesman Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala identified one of the abductors as Murphy Ambang Ladia alias Haji Gulam, who according to military records, was a former member of the rebel group Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) who later joined the ASG unit operating in the Tawi-Tawi area.

Gau and Dayawan have yet to be released by their captors. Based on intelligence reports, they are kept in Abu Sayyaf’s jungle stronghold in Sulu, where several other kidnap victims are held until they comply with the ransom demand of the group.

The ASG is notorious for beheading their victims who failed to come up with ransom money for their release.

The incident was similar to the April 23, 2000 Sipadan kidnapping wherein 21 tourists were also abducted by ASG members and brought to their hideout in Jolo, Sulu.

In 2001, the ASG also abducted 20 people at the Dos Palmas Resort in Honda Bay, Palawan that resulted in the deaths of at least five hostages, including two American nationals, Guillemo Sobero and Martin Burnham ~ Manila Times

Mereka telah disahkan diculik Kumpulan Abu Sayyaf oleh Inquirer.net

Missing Germans in the hands of Abu Sayyaf, says MSU prof

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The two German nationals who went missing near Palawan are now in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu, along with several other victims, including the Chinese national and a Filipina kidnapped from a Malaysian resort on April 2, a peace advocate with extensive sources in the region said Tuesday. A police source corroborated the claim.

However, there was no clear indication that two more people, who were snatched from Semporna, Malaysia, at dawn Tuesday were now inside Philippine territory.

Citing his “grassroots sources on the ground,” Prof. Octavio Dinampo of the Mindanao State University in Sulu said 72-year-old Dr. Stefan Viktor Okonek and Henrite Dielen, 42, were brought to Sulu in the last week of April.

“The two Germans are now with Radulan Sahiron,” he said.

Dinampo, who said locals who had grown tired of the Abu Sayyaf had relayed the information to him, said the two Germans were brought to Patikul by Ambrin Absara and Muammar Askali, using a speedboat owned by another suspected Abu Sayyaf leader identified as Idang Susukan.

“My informants told me they are now in Barangay Kabuntakas and are being kept there with the two European birdwatchers,” he said, referring to Dutchman Ewold Horn and Swiss national Lorenzo Vinciguerra.

The two birdwatchers were kidnapped in Panglima Sugala in Tawi-Tawi on February 1 last year.

Dinampo’s story was corroborated by a police source.

The police source said “Okonek and Dielen have been transferred to Sulu by the Abu Sayyaf Group.”

He said Chief Supt. Noel delos Reyes, the police chief in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, could possibly provide additional details, but the Inquirer failed to contact Delos Reyes as he did not answer text messages and would not answer his phone either.

Lt. Gen. Rustico Guerrero, chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command here, said there was no confirmation the two Germans had indeed been kidnapped and taken to Sulu.

The authorities gave the same line after MV Catherine, the yacht the Germans used, was found in waters off Bataraza, Palawan, on April 26.

Aside from the Germans, Dinampo said, Chinese national Gao Hua Yuan, 29, and Marcy “Mimi” Dayawan, a Filipino, were also brought to Sulu following their kidnapping at Singamata Reef Resort in Malaysia on April 2.

“The Chinese and Pinay are now in Bud Taran, Talipao, and they were taken by one of the original hostage takers during the Sipadan incident, Angad Adji,” Dinampo said.

He said his information should not be doubted but acted upon for the freedom of the victims.

“As a former kidnap victim, I vowed to seek justice for myself and others by going the extra mile if needed,” Dinampo said.

As this developed, police sources said they had no information yet if 35-year-old Yang Dai Lyn and Kenur Resowan, 54, had been transported to the Philippines following their abduction in the Semporna district of Sabah ~ Inquirer

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