Military Thread V8, Ops Daulat 
Feb 20 2013, 04:21 AM
LAHAD DATU: The group of armed intruders at a coastal village here are running out of food.
A resident who encountered the group when they arrived at Kampung Tanduo, here, a week ago said they had entered her house and used it as their quarters along with a few other premises in the vicinity.
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Siti Madinah Baharul, 33, said the group who called themselves the Royal Sulu Army had even taken food from her house as well as from other houses in the village.
"An elderly woman who stayed back in her house to look after her sick husband told me this when she walked out a few days earlier to get medicine supplies," she said when met at Tanjung Labian nearby.
All villagers have fled except for the elderly couple. None of them were harmed since they arrived there but the Malaysian security forces had surrounded the village and are gradually moving closer to where the houses are.
The security forces have set up two bases near Kampung Tanduo which is linked to the network of gravel routes connecting the Felda Sahabat oil palm plantation scheme. It is also within an area identified as Felda Sahabat 17.
Security forces are also stationed round the clock within a few hundred metres away from the village to maintain visual contact with the houses in the coastal area.
Siti said on their arrival in the early hours of Tuesday, the armed group had knocked on her front door to ask for directions.
"Some of them spoke in Malay and had also asked if there were any policemen around,” she said.
“The group stayed in the village, assuring villagers they would not be harmed. The villagers, however, started moving out slowly.”
Siti’s niece, Anisah Ben Hamid, 22, said the intruders even bought cigarettes from her small shop, paying with ringgit and pesos.
Anisah, who has since moved out of the village, said she was told that the group had used the kitchen at her house and even asked for the keys to her shop.
“I am worried they may force open my shop and take things there," Anisah said.
In a brief stop at Kampung Tanduo a few days earlier, the village looked deserted except for a few men who stood outside one of the houses and two more seen carrying water from a nearby well.
Some of the men wore army fatigues and had firearms.
There is also a wooden house in the village allegedly used by the group who had earlier held negotiations with the police and made the few demands including their desire to meet with one of their leaders from the Philippines.
The gravel route and footpaths leading to the village are now under close supervision by the security forces as they continue to monitor the movements of the group, including those who live in nearby villages such as Sinakut, Merah and Tanjung Labian.
"An elderly woman who stayed back in her house to look after her sick husband told me this when she walked out a few days earlier to get medicine supplies," she said when met at Tanjung Labian nearby.
All villagers have fled except for the elderly couple. None of them were harmed since they arrived there but the Malaysian security forces had surrounded the village and are gradually moving closer to where the houses are.
The security forces have set up two bases near Kampung Tanduo which is linked to the network of gravel routes connecting the Felda Sahabat oil palm plantation scheme. It is also within an area identified as Felda Sahabat 17.
Security forces are also stationed round the clock within a few hundred metres away from the village to maintain visual contact with the houses in the coastal area.
Siti said on their arrival in the early hours of Tuesday, the armed group had knocked on her front door to ask for directions.
"Some of them spoke in Malay and had also asked if there were any policemen around,” she said.
“The group stayed in the village, assuring villagers they would not be harmed. The villagers, however, started moving out slowly.”
Siti’s niece, Anisah Ben Hamid, 22, said the intruders even bought cigarettes from her small shop, paying with ringgit and pesos.
Anisah, who has since moved out of the village, said she was told that the group had used the kitchen at her house and even asked for the keys to her shop.
“I am worried they may force open my shop and take things there," Anisah said.
In a brief stop at Kampung Tanduo a few days earlier, the village looked deserted except for a few men who stood outside one of the houses and two more seen carrying water from a nearby well.
Some of the men wore army fatigues and had firearms.
There is also a wooden house in the village allegedly used by the group who had earlier held negotiations with the police and made the few demands including their desire to meet with one of their leaders from the Philippines.
The gravel route and footpaths leading to the village are now under close supervision by the security forces as they continue to monitor the movements of the group, including those who live in nearby villages such as Sinakut, Merah and Tanjung Labian.
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