Filipino hackers defaced the Philippines’ government telecommunications website yesterday, accusing Philippine President Benigno Aquino III of being “pro-Malaysian” amid the Sabah armed conflict with Sulu militants, Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN News reported.
Anonymous Philippines previously hacked the Philippine president’s official website last Tuesday, with the hacker group lambasting Aquino for doing nothing to stop the alleged human rights violations against Filipinos in Sabah.
“We do not know how you are able to relax while our Filipino brothers sacrifice their life to defend Sabah. It seems you are a Pro-Malaysian,” Anonymous Philippines was quoted by ABS-CBN News as writing on the Philippines National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) website, www.ntc.gov.ph.
“And now you are on the side of Malaysian Gov, many people knew that Sabah is part of the Philippines, We’re not encouraging the PH Gov to declare a war on Malaysia but Philippines must defend it’s (sic) sovereignty,” added the loose hacker group that pushes for internet freedom and free speech.
Philippines and Malaysia have, however, agreed that it was within Putrajaya’s rights to defend its borders after appeals for negotiations were met with stubborn refusal from the Kiram clan that is laying an ancestral claim on Sabah.
Anonymous Philippines also called the air strikesagainst Sulu militants holed-up in a Lahad Datu village last week a “provocative act”.
The NTC website was back to normal at press time.
Reports of abuse and alleged extrajudicial killings by Malaysia’s security forces hunting for Sulu invaders in Sabah have triggered Philippine’s concern of a brewing humanitarian emergency as Filipinos fled the state for fear of reprisals.
No evidence of the human rights violations reported in Philippine media has been produced to date, with Putrajaya calling the claims a “fabrication”.
The Ops Daulat operation to flush out the Sulu militants is nearing an end, but the southern Filipino militant group leader Agbimuddin Kiram has yet to be found, with the authorities saying that he was likely still holed-up in Lahad Datu.
Last Wednesday, Aquino reportedly ordered government officials to stock up on food supplies and step up humanitarian support to Filipinos including illegal emigrants seeking better jobs who have started to return to the republic by the hundreds since last week.
Philippine lawmakers are now pressuring the Aquino administration to file a formal complaint with Putrajaya as allegations of abuse of Filipinos flood the country in the wake of the Sabah armed conflict.
The Philippine senate has demanded its government to hold Malaysia accountable for possible human rights violations against the 800,000-strong Filipino migrant community in Sabah at the hands of local authorities, who are searching for a ragtag band of Sulu militants demanding ownership of the north Borneo state.
Bantilan Esmail II, a brother of Sulu “Sultan” Jamalul Kiram III, was quoted by the Philippine Daily Inquirer last Tuesday as saying that Malaysian authorities have allegedly been ill-treating Filipinos in Sabah long before the 200-strong Sulu incursion began last month.
A total of 67 people were reported killed in the Sulu incursion as of last Tuesday, including 56 Filipino militants, eight Malaysian policemen and two Malaysian soldiers, and an unidentified teenage boy.
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