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| Abu Sayyaf captives beg Canada, Norway to negotiate |
| 2016-03-12 |
| [Inquirer] The Abu Sayyaf has released a new video of the three foreigners and a Filipina woman who were kidnapped from the Island Garden City of Samal in Davao del Norte in September last year. In the video, the Canadian and Norwegian hostages pled for help to their governments. A hooded Abu Sayyaf militant warned that "something terrible" would be done to the four victims if ransom demands were not met by April 8. The video was posted on a Facebook page called Pamantasan ng Tawheed at Jihad Filibin. In the video, one of the six armed men forces three of the captives to ask for help. "For my wife, to my family and this is so much bigger than family, to the Canadian Prime Minister and to the Canadian people in the world, please, do as needed to meet their demand within one month or they will kill me, they will execute us," Canadian John Ridsdel said as a man wearing held a bolo on his neck. Robert Hall, seated next to his Filipina girlfriend Flor, is next. "I am a Canadian citizen being held by the Abu Sayyaf group for ransom, the amount is, I do not know what it is. But the Canadian government has got to get us out of here fast, to do what is necessary to get us out of here soon. We got one month before this happens," he said. Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad said it was his, "last message to my family, friends and authorities. Follow the negotiation, try to meet their demands within 30 days or we are all dead." |
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