[Gulf Today] A 12-year-old girl was killed and her mother seriously injured when a roadside bomb believed to have been planted by the Abu Sayyaf exploded in Mindanao. Police said the victims were gathering root crops in a village along the road in Lamitan City, Basilan when the bomb exploded on Sunday afternoon.
Police blamed the Abu Sayyaf for the blast, saying it was intended to divert the intensified search and destroy operation launched against them in the mountains in Lamitan's neighboring town of Sumisip.
Meanwhile, President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed the arrest in Malaysia of the son of a Maguindanao lawmaker for his alleged involvement in the bombing of a popular night market in Davao City, Duterte's hometown last September. He identified the suspect as Datu Mohammad Abduljabbar Sema, who has been detained by Malaysian authorities since last November for his alleged link to the Davao City bombing that killed 15 people and injured more than 60 others.
Sema is the son of Muslimin Sema, the head of a faction of the divided Moro National Liberation Front as well as the former mayor of Cotabato City, and Congresswoman Bi Sandra Sema of Maguindanao.
With Sema's arrest, Duterte said all suspects have been accounted for in the bombing blamed on members of the Matute Group which has pledged allegiance to the Daesh.
Secretary Delfin Lorenzana of the Department of National Defense said the government has requested Malaysia to extradite Sema back to the Philippines so he could face trial.
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[Nikkei Asian Review] Muslims in southern Thailand are bidding farewell to a prominent Muslim leader accused by police of leading a separatist movement intent on creating a homeland for ethnic Malays in the region. Local media quoted Sapae-ing Basor's family members as saying he had passed away on January 10 while living in exile in Malaysia.
About 2,500 people gathered on Monday morning at the school in southern Yala province where Sapae-ing served as principal until he fled the country in December 2004. Sapae-ing had been charged with treason by police over his alleged involvement in a series of attacks on police and military facilities in the region.
Sapae-ing, who was educated in Saudi Arabia, commanded respect from Thai authorities as well as admiration from local Muslim communities. "He was the most selfless person we ever knew. He always placed the needs and dignity of his community before him," said one cadre from the Barisan Revolusi Nasional, a key southern insurgent group that surfaced in the early 1960s.
Since its inception, the BRN has looked to post-colonial Indonesia for inspiration, while relying on a network of traditional Islamic schools in the southern Thai region as its support base.
Thai police have maintained that Sapae-ing is the overall leader of the BRN, and at one time they placed a 10 million baht reward on his head. The reward system for the region was dropped by the military government that assumed power in 2006.
A senior BRN source said the movement would continue its fight against the Thai government, noting that Sapae-ing's death would not affect the group's military operations. Thai security officials and BRN rebels said that his death would not have a significant impact on stalled peace talks between the Thai government and Mara Patani, an umbrella organization of southern rebel groups.
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[Gulf Today] A 12-year-old girl was killed and her mother seriously injured when a roadside bomb believed to have been planted by the Abu Sayyaf exploded in Mindanao. Police said the victims were gathering root crops in a village along the road in Lamitan City, Basilan when the bomb exploded on Sunday afternoon.
[Nikkei Asian Review] Muslims in southern Thailand are bidding farewell to a prominent Muslim leader accused by police of leading a separatist movement intent on creating a homeland for ethnic Malays in the region. Local media quoted Sapae-ing Basor's family members as saying he had passed away on January 10 while living in exile in Malaysia.
