Sultanate of Sulu demand the return of Sabah from Malaysia?

[Zero_wing]

Well this people think they are higher than the law they never lessen to us their own government true i support the claims to sabah but it must be done accordingly and by the rules not by force this ending is obvious but they never learn i just they put that determination to good use. They just put other dirt mess on the Philippines at the time were things were getting better too. nakaka bad trip kasi hindi marunnog makinig matigas ang ulo. So sad but salute to the brave dead and my sympathy to lives lose again misplace determination.

 

[ManilaBoy45]

5 More Malaysian Forces killed in Firefight with Filipinos in Sabah

More Violence Erupts in Sabah Conflict | News | GMA News Online

(Updated 1:40 p.m.) Five members of the Malaysian security forces have been killed in a firefight in Sabah with an armed group believed to be among the Filipino followers of the Sulu Sultanate Saturday night, according to reports from Malaysia's state-run Bernama news agency and from Agence France-Presse.According to the report from Bernama, two of the armed intruders were also killed.

An earlier report from Bernama said the incident occurred at about 8 p.m. at Kampung Selamat, Semporna, some 150 km from Kampung Tanduo in Lahad Datu.Bernama cited information indicating the armed men "planned to attack Lahad Datu police station."

Dead Malaysian Security Forces are Offloaded from a C-130 Aircraft

 

[p3avi8tor69]

So its seems, at this moment, the Malaysians are getting their ***** whooped.

 

[nufix]

So its seems, at this moment, the Malaysians are getting their ***** whooped.

It is quite normal I think, Malaysian gendarme forces are not adequately experienced in REAL conflict against combatants like those Sulu's fighters who are trained in Mindanao Conflict, even some of them have some sort of connection to the MILF/MNLF.

 

[eddieInUK]

Muslims should rule what they used to rule before. United Muslim states will shake the world.

 

[Zero_wing]

Oh please read more

 

[WuMaoCleverbot]

LESSONS FROM THE PAST | Philippine claim over Sabah is solid - Salonga
By: Veronica C. Uy, InterAksyon.com
March 4, 2013 12:43 AM

MANILA – The Philippine claim over Sabah is solid. Thus said eminent statesman Jovito Salonga 50 years ago, in his speech as then congressman and chairman of the Legal Committtee of the Philippine Delegation to the Anglo-Philippine Talks held in London.

The speech, delivered on radio and television on March 30, 1963, was a point-by-point reply to the report of then Senator Lorenzo Sumulong on the Philippine claim to Sabah (also known as North Borneo).

Context

At the time, the Federation of Malaysia was scheduled to be formally created on August 31, 1963 from the states of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo. The plan was for the four states to have co-equal standing in the federation.

Singapore would become an independent state on August 9, 1965.

The speech was made to assert the Philippine claim during this time, and revive the claim after Britain claimed sovereign rights over Sabah shortly after Philippines' independence from the United States.

Salonga headed the team that went to London to pore over the documents related to the Philippines' Sabah claim.

Salonga would later become Senate President in the post-EDSA People Power Revolt and preside at the historic 1991 Senate vote that ended nearly a century of US bases presence in the Philippines.

In 1963, he cited the following proofs and arguments that Sabah remained under the dominion and sovereignty of the Sultan of Sulu:

1. In 1881, when the Spanish and Dutch governments protested the award of the Royal Charter to the British North Borneo Company, the British clarified that "sovereignty remains with the Sultan of Sulu" and that the company was merely an administrative authority.

Salonga recalled that Baron de Overbeck, the Austrian "adventurer" who persuaded the Sultan of Sulu in 1878 to lease Sabah to him for an annual rent of 5,000 Malaysian dollars, sold his rights to Alfred Dent, the English merchant who started the British North Borneo Co. Dent thus assumed all the rights and obligations under the 1878 contract.

2. In 1946, the company "transferred all its rights and obligations to the British Crown." To this, Salonga said the company - as well as the heirs of Overbeck and Dent - is not a sovereign entity and therefore could not acquire "dominion and sovereignty" over the island. He cited "authoritative British and Spanish documents" showing so.

The company's "rights were as those indicated in the basic contract... that of lessee and a mere delegate," he said.

3. North Borneo was never part of British territory and its people were never British subjects until July 10, 1946, or six days after Philippines independence, when Britain unlawfully "asserted full sovereign rights over" the island.

But "in accordance with established precedents in International Law, the assertion of sovereign rights by the British Crown in 1946, in complete disregard of the contract of 1878 and their solemn commitments did not and cannot produce legal results in the force of a new title," according to Salonga.

This even prompted former American Governor-General F.B. Harrison, then Special Adviser to the Philippine Government on Foreign Affairs, "to denounce the cession order as a unilateral set in violation of legal right."

Four years after, in 1950, then Congressman Diosdado Macapagal, along with Congressmen Arsenio Lacson and Arturo Tolentino, sponsored a resolution urging the formal institution of the claim to Sabah.

4. Sabah thus cannot be part of the Federation of Malaysia as "conceived, inspired, and sponsored" by the British.

At that time in 1962, then President Diosdado Macapagal filed a claim over Sabah after the House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging him to recover the island.

5. However, Salonga also noted that the Sultan of Sulu or his heirs cannot make a claim over Sabah before the International Court of Justice because "only States may be parties in cases before the Court," as per Chapter 2, Article 34, paragraph 1 of the Statute of ICJ, in relation Chapter 14 of the UN Charter.

Salonga's arguments concluded thus: "The claim for North Borneo is not of the President, the Liberal Party, nor of his Administration, but a claim of the entire Republic, based on respect for the rule of law, the sacredness of facts, and the relentless logic of our situation in this part of the world."

LESSONS FROM THE PAST | Philippine claim over Sabah is solid - Salonga - InterAksyon.com

 

[Fsjal]

So its seems, at this moment, the Malaysians are getting their ***** whooped.

I wouldn't really say that. The Malaysians are also trained for this type of situation.

LESSONS FROM THE PAST | Philippine claim over Sabah is solid - Salonga
By: Veronica C. Uy, InterAksyon.com
March 4, 2013 12:43 AM

MANILA – The Philippine claim over Sabah is solid. Thus said eminent statesman Jovito Salonga 50 years ago, in his speech as then congressman and chairman of the Legal Committtee of the Philippine Delegation to the Anglo-Philippine Talks held in London.

The speech, delivered on radio and television on March 30, 1963, was a point-by-point reply to the report of then Senator Lorenzo Sumulong on the Philippine claim to Sabah (also known as North Borneo).

Context

At the time, the Federation of Malaysia was scheduled to be formally created on August 31, 1963 from the states of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo. The plan was for the four states to have co-equal standing in the federation.

Singapore would become an independent state on August 9, 1965.

The speech was made to assert the Philippine claim during this time, and revive the claim after Britain claimed sovereign rights over Sabah shortly after Philippines' independence from the United States.

Salonga headed the team that went to London to pore over the documents related to the Philippines' Sabah claim.

Salonga would later become Senate President in the post-EDSA People Power Revolt and preside at the historic 1991 Senate vote that ended nearly a century of US bases presence in the Philippines.

In 1963, he cited the following proofs and arguments that Sabah remained under the dominion and sovereignty of the Sultan of Sulu:

1. In 1881, when the Spanish and Dutch governments protested the award of the Royal Charter to the British North Borneo Company, the British clarified that "sovereignty remains with the Sultan of Sulu" and that the company was merely an administrative authority.

Salonga recalled that Baron de Overbeck, the Austrian "adventurer" who persuaded the Sultan of Sulu in 1878 to lease Sabah to him for an annual rent of 5,000 Malaysian dollars, sold his rights to Alfred Dent, the English merchant who started the British North Borneo Co. Dent thus assumed all the rights and obligations under the 1878 contract.

2. In 1946, the company "transferred all its rights and obligations to the British Crown." To this, Salonga said the company - as well as the heirs of Overbeck and Dent - is not a sovereign entity and therefore could not acquire "dominion and sovereignty" over the island. He cited "authoritative British and Spanish documents" showing so.

The company's "rights were as those indicated in the basic contract... that of lessee and a mere delegate," he said.

3. North Borneo was never part of British territory and its people were never British subjects until July 10, 1946, or six days after Philippines independence, when Britain unlawfully "asserted full sovereign rights over" the island.

But "in accordance with established precedents in International Law, the assertion of sovereign rights by the British Crown in 1946, in complete disregard of the contract of 1878 and their solemn commitments did not and cannot produce legal results in the force of a new title," according to Salonga.

This even prompted former American Governor-General F.B. Harrison, then Special Adviser to the Philippine Government on Foreign Affairs, "to denounce the cession order as a unilateral set in violation of legal right."

Four years after, in 1950, then Congressman Diosdado Macapagal, along with Congressmen Arsenio Lacson and Arturo Tolentino, sponsored a resolution urging the formal institution of the claim to Sabah.

4. Sabah thus cannot be part of the Federation of Malaysia as "conceived, inspired, and sponsored" by the British.

At that time in 1962, then President Diosdado Macapagal filed a claim over Sabah after the House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging him to recover the island.

5. However, Salonga also noted that the Sultan of Sulu or his heirs cannot make a claim over Sabah before the International Court of Justice because "only States may be parties in cases before the Court," as per Chapter 2, Article 34, paragraph 1 of the Statute of ICJ, in relation Chapter 14 of the UN Charter.

Salonga's arguments concluded thus: "The claim for North Borneo is not of the President, the Liberal Party, nor of his Administration, but a claim of the entire Republic, based on respect for the rule of law, the sacredness of facts, and the relentless logic of our situation in this part of the world."

LESSONS FROM THE PAST | Philippine claim over Sabah is solid - Salonga - InterAksyon.com

Too late. Malaysia has control of Sabah.

 

[WuMaoCleverbot]

Imam, 4 sons killed in Semporna, Kirams say
ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 03/03/2013 2:37 PM | Updated as of 03/03/2013 2:37 PM

MANILA, Philippines – An imam (Islamic religious leader) and his four children were killed when Malaysian forces attacked a village in Semporna, Sabah, the Kiram family said in a press conference Sunday in their home in Taguig City.

According to a report received by Princess Jaycel Kiram, daughter of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, and spokesperson Abraham Idjirani, Malaysian police forcibly entered a civilian’s house in Semporna, leading to the death of an imam and his four children.

Another imam was reportedly wounded in the attack.

“The perpetrator of the conflict is the Malaysian authority,” Idjirani said. “It is not the sultanate of Sulu that’s leveling up the conflict, it is the Malaysian government.”

“Had the Malaysian police applied tolerance, sobriety... They should not have resorted to that kind of action,” he added.

Reports from Malaysian news websites made no mention of the deaths of the imam and his children, however.

According to reports from The Star Online and New Straits Times, five Malaysian policemen were killed when they were ambushed during a police raid on a village on stilts in Semporna.

Tan Sri Ismail Omar, Inspector-General of Police, said the five Malaysian policemen were conducting a “ground assessment” when they were ambushed.

Ismail said two Sulu armed men were killed in the exchange, but the report did not identify them.

Ismail added that Malaysian police have encircled the village, where they are hunting for 10 men, three of which were armed and seen wearing camouflage.

Princess Jaycel, meanwhile, said she had “no words” to describe the latest development in Sabah.

“I cannot find the right term to express what I feel now. For the Malaysian police to do this to a Muslim priest, dinamay pa ang mga anak... I have no words to express what I feel,” she said.

Princess Jaycel also revealed that Malaysian forces have been arresting Filipinos indiscriminately, even those who were not linked to the Royal Army of the Sulu Sultanate. – with a report from DZMM

Imam, 4 sons killed in Semporna, Kirams say | ABS-CBN News

 

[Bob Ong]

If Malaysia thinks they can immediately quell these Tausog warriors, then they should think twice because many more will follow with the support of MNLF, MILF and Abu Sayyaf. A unification of these 3 will mean destruction for Malaysia.

 

[Malaya]

No, I actually feel sad for those Sultan's followers that were killed.

(Sulu Heirs)

Well what I’m just saying is that the standoff may be over but this is just the BEGINNING. If you know what I mean.

The situation is really getting out of hand.

The Royal Sulu Army is taking the offensive. Guerilla warfare is now taking place.

 

[Malaya]

If Malaysia thinks they can immediately quell these Tausog warriors, then they should think twice because many more will follow with the support of MNLF, MILF and Abu Sayyaf. A unification of these 3 will mean destruction for Malaysia.

Looks like the war in Mindanao is rapidly moving to Sabah. Now the table is turned.

Let's see then in the coming days how Malaysia fights in battle. Just a precaution, these Muslim brothers were fighters and have seen combat since birth birth while the Malaysian Army became observers only during peace negotiations with the Muslim rebels.

 

[Malaya]

Filipinos support the Sultanate of Sulu

OUR page 1 to page 2 Special Report is again on Sabah, the former North Borneo, which is now a state of the Federation of Malaysia despite it being a “patrimony of the Filipino Nation.”

Those words were spoken over and over again in various forums by Sultan Jamalul Kiram 3rd, whose Royal Army of the sultanate of Sulu, sailed to Sabah and established themselves in the small village of Lahad Datu. The Malaysian police and military and the 300-plus Filipinos—Tausugs from Sulu— had a shootout on Friday. So far there have been 12 Filipino and two Malaysian casualties.

Thank God, rumors on Saturday proved to be untrue that there have been more deaths on the Malaysian side because the Filipino Muslims went out on a vengeance attack and killed 60 Malaysian paramilitary soldiers (people similar, we presume, to the Filipino Cafgus).

As far as we can make it out, the reason the Sultan and his Crown Prince, decided on what has been called “an incursion into Sabah,” is to dramatize the Sultanate’s and the Philippines ownership of Sabah. The Malaysian government continues to pay an annual rent of a little over P70,000 a year to the sultanate of Sulu. But the Malaysians have continued their former British colonial masters’ term for the annual payment as a “cession” fee—not a rent.

Unfortunately, the Aquino administration has decided not to bother about the Philippine Sabah claim and the sultanate of Sulu (and Sabah). The President himself has said that he has first to learn what it is all about before he can do anything about Sabah.

The Aquino admnistration has again mishandled these important matters, the Sabah claim and the leaders and people of the sultanate of Sulu and Sabah and their aspirations. It has incompetently handled the Sultanate Army’s incursion into Sabah (which should not be called an incursion because the Tausugs consider both Sulu and Sabah their home grounds).

And the Aquino administration failed to assure the other Filipino Muslims that the future Government-Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace deal will not mean their subjugation under an MILF yoke. For a key provision of the Framework Agreement is the abolition the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and putting all the provinces (including those of the Sultanate of Sulu) under the control of MILF leaders.

Not only has the Aquino administration given no value to the fact that, as the Sultan says: “Sabah is the patrimony of the Filipino Nation.” It has also not given much value to the interests and the aspirations of Moros—Filipinos of Mindanao whether Muslim, Lumad, Christian or atheists—who are not under the sway of the MILF.

Sultan Jamalul Kiram 3rd has been appealing to “all“ brother Filipinos of all creeds, to help us in this historic fight, because sovereignty is indivisible, it cannot be partitioned, it is a God-given right for all of us Filipinos. Thank you. Insha’Allah.”

No doubts about Philippine ownership of Sabah

Our report includes a statement made by former Senate president Jovito Salonga at an international meeting of ministers. That statement by one of our country’s eminent lawyers clearly expounds why there is no doubt that the sultanate of Sulu and the Philippines own Sabah.

Columnist Alan F. Paguia, in one of his Force of Law columns, neatly sums up the argument.

“History says Sabah is owned by the sultanate of Sulu.

“Malaysia, which pays the latter rentals for Sabah, claims that land— which is bigger than Luzon—is part of Malaysian territory.

“That is the problem.

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“1. Under the rules of evidence:
“ ‘The tenant is not permitted to deny the title of his landlord at the time of the commencement of the relation of landlord and tenant between them” (Section 2b, Rule 131, Rules of Court).

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“2. The lease of Sabah is centuries old.

“3. The sultanate of Sulu leased it originally to a private British company.

“4. At that time, the Malayan Union, the former name of Malaysia, was a colony under the United Kingdom (UK).

“5. On August 31, 1957, the UK granted independence to Malaysia which, on the same date, inaugurated its own Constitution. Such grant of independence, unfortunately, included the turn-over of Sabah to Malaysia.

“6. Malaysia continued paying rent to the sultanate of Sulu.

“7. Did Malaysia acquire ownership over Sabah from the UK? NO. The UK cannot give away what it does not own. When it took over the aforecited British company, it stepped into the shoes of a mere LESSEE. It follows that when it turned-over its interests over Sabah to Malaysia, it turned over nothing more than a LESSEE’s interests.

“8. In a real contract of LEASE, one of the parties (LESSOR) binds himself to give to another (LESSEE) the enjoyment or use of a parcel of land for a certain price, and for a period which may be definite or indefinite.

9. By legal definition, what is given to the lessee is the enjoyment or use—NOT ownership—of the land.

10. In the case at bar, the sultanate of Sulu is the landlord or LESSOR, while Malaysia is the tenant or LESSEE.

11. Under the law, the ownership of the landlord at the start of the lease relation is CONCLUSIVELY PRESUMED as against the LESSEE and the latter is not permitted to dispute such fact. Stated in another way, the Sultanate’s ownership at the start of the lease relation is CONCLUSIVELY PRESUMED as against Malaysia and the latter is not permitted to dispute such fact.

12. May Malaysia properly claim to be the owner of Sabah? It is respectfully submitted the answer is NO. Malaysia, as a LESSEE, is ESTOPPED from denying the LESSOR’s title.

That is why the Filipino people stand with the sultans of Sulu.

Sadly, the President of the Philippines doesn’t.

Filipinos support the Sultanate of Sulu

 

[Malaya]

Manila papers slam Aquino for being a Malaysian mouthpiece
BY CLARA CHOOI
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
MARCH 04, 2013

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 — The Philippines government’s hardline approach against the Sulu militants in Sabah had likely worsened the ongoing bloodshed, the Philippine Daily Inquirer said today, heaping criticism against the Aquino administration for allegedly mishandling the crisis.

In a hard-hitting editorial, the country’s most widely-read broadsheet took a swipe at Philippines President Benigno Aquino III (picture) for taking the same tone as his Malaysian counterpart Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak when demanding that the Sulu Sultanate’s followers lay down arms.

The paper reminded the president that the group of Sulu gunmen, who have set up camp in Sabah since February 9, are Filipino citizens who sincerely believe the east Malaysian state is their home.

“When he (Aquino) appealed to the followers to ‘[c]ome back home and we will talk’, he inadvertently confirmed their suspicion that he did not understand what they saw as the core issue: Sabah as home,” the Inquirer said.

The paper also pointed to talk that the Sulu Sultanate had been neglected in peace talks between the Philippines government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to end decades of armed conflict in Mindanao, which involves Malaysia as facilitator.

This could have led to Sultan Jamalul Kiram III’s reason for deploying his men to Sabah, it said, leading to the past few days of violent clashes between the Filipino militants and Malaysia’s security forces.

As at Day 22 since the incursion, eight Malaysian policemen and 20 militants have reportedly died during skirmishes in three districts in the eastern coast of Sabah.

The Inquirer said, however, that the “real problem” with the Philippine government’s approach to the Sulu claim on Sabah was in its lack of sympathy to the Sultan’s followers and purpose.

“We do not mean that the Philippine government should encourage its citizens to break international law or provoke a regional crisis,” the paper stressed, noting that the country’s Constitution binds the government to a general policy of peace and amity when dealing with other countries.

“But no government can ignore the sentiments of its people either,” the Inquirer said.

The paper said Jamalul’s band of rebels in Sabah have already clearly committed themselves to staking their claim over Sabah, pointing to how it is only being leased to Malaysia, as proof of its ownership over the land.

“Was it really out of the question for the administration to condemn the sin but look compassionately on the sinner?” the Inquirer asked, saying a distinction could be made between the incursion and the Sultanate’s desires.

“They are, after all, Filipino citizens.”

The Inquirer said Aquino, in backing the Malaysian government’s warning to the Filipino militants, had failed to offer Jamalul and his men a way out of the conflict.

It said there were no attempts to assuage the Sultan and his followers that the Philippines government would continue to honour its claim over Sabah.

This had likely only reinforced the Sultan’s decision to order his troops to stay put in Sabah, regardless of the lives lost and would likely soon be lost.

“Granted, perhaps the whole idea behind the excursion into Sabah was to create an impasse, requiring international intervention.

“But the image of the chief executive employing the same language as the Malaysian prime minister was unsettling,” the Inquirer said.

Aquino earned the same criticism in The Manila Times today, where columnist Rigoberto D. Tiglao sarcastically said in an article that given the president’s approach in handling the standoff, Malaysia should confer one of its honorific titles that can be given to foreigners like a Datukship.

Tiglao similarly reminded that when Najib told the militants that there would be “no compromise; either they surrender or face the consequences”, Aquino, on his part, announced “surrender now, without conditions.”

“Check out everything Aquino said since the crisis broke out in February 13 — and you can easily do this in this day and age through the Internet — and you will realise that he never made even the vaguest reference that the Philippines claims Sabah as its territory and that is the root of the crisis.

“He never even mentioned that the Sulu sultan’s and his people firmly believe that Malaysia has land-grabbed his clans’ century old homeland. His spokesmen even in effect dismissed the Sabah claim as passé,” Tiglao wrote.

Jamalul’s rebels in Sabah have continued to defy warnings from both the Malaysian and Philippine authorities to leave Sabah, resulting in violent clashes over the past few days which have left casualties on both sides.


THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER




Del Rosario flies to Malaysia in bid to stop violence in Sabah
By Jovan Cerda (philstar.com) | Updated March 4, 2013

MANILA, Philippines - Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario flew to Malaysia on Monday afternoon to meet Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman in an effort to stop further violence in Lahad Datu, Sabah.

Del Rosario's mission comes after the standoff between Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III's royal army and the Malaysian security forces erupted into a firefight which left several people dead.

“The loss of lives in Sabah is deeply regrettable. We offer our profound condolences to the families of the victims of this unfortunate incident,” Department of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Raul Hernandez said.

The Cabinet secretary is also on a mission to personally convey the request of the Philippine government for a full briefing by the Malaysian authorities on the situation, a report published by the DFA noted.

It added that Del Rosario will also request "for the Philippine Navy ship AT-296 Tagbanua to proceed to Lahad Datu to enable the Philippine medical personnel aboard to provide humanitarian and consular assistance and provide medical care to the wounded and ferry them and the remaining members of the group back to their respective homes and families."

Del Rosario has been in touch with the Malaysian authorities on a daily basis to discuss possible resolutions to the ongoing standoff, the state agency added.

 

[Malaya]

Sabah crisis sparks 'cyberwar'
By Camille Diola (philstar.com) | Updated March 4, 2013

MANILA, Philippines - A hacker war between "cyber armies" from the Philippines and Malaysia has set off alongside the escalating tension in Sabah due to the clashes between the royal army of the Sultanate of Sulu and Malaysian security forces.

On Monday, the "Philippine Cyber Army" continued with its onslaught claiming to have attacked 175 Malaysia-based sites including state-owned pages.

Individual Malaysian hackers appeared to have started the attacks on Philippine websites last Saturday, posting online threats and videos meaning to send a message to the Philippine government to keep away from the region of Sabah.

The Malaysian group first defaced the government-owned site of the municipality Moal Boal, Cebu.

"Bring your ship and take back your dogs. Stop killing Malaysian army and police. Otherwise, we will attack Philippine Government websites," said a message that took over moalboal.gov.ph's homepage on Saturday, signed by screen names of hackers supposedly from Malaysia.

Another message from hacking group "Anonymous Malaysia" was found over several government and private businesses' websites on Saturday, with a message addressed to "All Armed Forces Philippines" to drive Filipinos off Lahad Datu, Sabah, where the royal army of the Sultanate of Sulu marched last February to stake their claim on the area.

Almost instantly, the "Anonymous Philippine Cyber Army" and related hackers retaliated starting with a call to the Philippine government to secure its online properties from Malaysian hackers.

"Nalulungkot po ako. Hindi po talaga maganda ang nangyayari. Anonymous versus Anonymous ang kalalabasan," Filipino hackers posted on the same page, referring to 'Anonymous' as a supposedly "united" worldwide alliance of cyberpunks.

The Filipino group then posted a warning video to their Malaysian counterparts and went on to hack about 20 private websites under Malaysia's national domain (.my) on Sunday.

'Peace'

The official Facebook page of Anonymous Malaysia on Monday posted a graphic claiming that they have made "peace" with hackers from the Philippines and vowed not to push through with attacks.

"Let us help both The Philippines and Malaysia unite, not find a reason to fight," the hackers said.

The decision to cease the cyberwars appeared to have been called by the international Anonymous body, urging both groups to "stop" those who have joined the "petty cyber-war."

"The petty cyber-war will gain us nothing but wrong impressions from ordinary people. Our goal is to peacefully unite the collective consciousness of humanity," the letter read.

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/03/04/915721/sabah-crisis-sparks-cyberwar




Google gets hacked over Asian stand-off!

Supporters of an armed bid by Filipino intruders to lay claim to a Malaysian state took their campaign to cyberspace today, leading to Google search listings being hacked to show a message backing the incursion.

A Google search for the word 'Sabah', the state at the centre of Malaysia's biggest security crisis in years, came back with a search results page that quotes 'Wikipedia' calling Malaysian control of the state “illegitimate”.

“Sabah is illegitimately considered one of the 13 member states of Malaysia, and is said to be its easternmost state but in fact, it is part of the Sultanate of Sulu,” the passage read, shown in a box previewing the Wikipedia entry for Sabah.

Malaysians have been shocked by the militant incursion, which began when an estimated 100-300 people landed on the shores of Sabah on February 12, claiming the state for the heir to a former Philippine sultanate.

The website of Stamford College in Malaysia was apparently hacked at the weekend, its front page replaced by a message that said: “The time has come to reclaim what is truly ours.

“Sabah is owned by the Philippines, you illegally (sic) claiming it,” it said.

Philippine news portals have said a number of sites in the country were hit by pro-Malaysia hackers.

Google gets hacked over Asian stand-off!




Battle For Sabah Reaches Cyberspace
By: Carlos Dave B. Garcia and Krisselle Kate Q. Nery
Published: March 4, 2013

The battle between Malaysian police and Kiram followers for Sabah birthright has been extended and brought into cyberspace by two anonymous groups.

Malaysian and Filipino hackers exchanged cyber attacks over the weekend, echoing the actual combat in Sabah on Friday to Sunday.

Hackers claiming to be from Malaysian and Filipino chapters of the “hacktivist” group Anonymous, attacked websites of both countries.

It was said that Malaysians executed the first online attacks hours after the ground skirmish was reported between Malaysian police and Sulu gunmen on Friday.

On the Facebook page of Anonymous Malaysia, they posted a Tagalog message warning Filipinos to cease else they would strike.

“Warning for Philipine, Sa lahat ng mga residente Sa Filifina, Kami ba Anonymous Malaysia Aling May 14 Estado Fruit kabilang Sabah ay Mayroon pun mong lumaban!” goes part of the message.

According to “The Pinoy Tech News,” some Philippine government websites were hit by denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, and others were defaced including: the Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Tourism, Department of Health, and the Bureau of Immigration.

They also defaced the Cebu province’s official website of Moalboal, with a message that reads: ”Take some action about your dogs in our country. Bring your ship and take back your dogs, stop killing Malaysian army & police. Otherwise, we will attack Philippine goverment websites. No time to make some joke, terrorist are terrorist. Nothing’s changed!”

Hackers from the Philippines then struck back, attacking and defacing several Malaysian private and government-owned websites.

“Greetings Malaysia! Greetings Government! Stop attacking over our cyberspace or else we will attack your cyber world!” the Philippine hacktivist’s message read.

Shortly after, Anonymous Malaysia apologized for the attacks they’ve done and urged Anonymous Philippines to stop the cyber-war regarding Sabah. However, after the settled truce, another Philippine website, http://www.7-eleven.com.ph/files, was hacked, and was followed by a number of websites.

In revenge, the Philippine hackers hacked more than 170 Malaysian websites as of yesterday afternoon.

They also called for their followers to launch DoS attacks against local sites.

It was reported by “The Star Online” that a statement allegedly made by Anonymous has called for hackers of both countries to stand down.

“The petty cyber-war will gain us nothing but wrong impressions from ordinary people... Let us help both the Philippines and Malaysia unite, not find a reason to fight,” they were quoted.

Unfortunately, the alleged statement made by Anonymous did not dissuade hackers who are continuing their attacks.

Malaysia’s CyberSecurity chief executive officer Dr. Amirudin Abdul Wahab said that their government was “well aware of the matter but declined further comment.”

Just yesterday evening, both Anonymous groups from the Philippines and Malaysia posted on their Facebook accounts that the rift between them has already been resolved. (With reports from thestar.com, thepinoytechnews.com)

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