HOW TO HELP OUR SULUK FAMILIES, VICTIMS OF KUALA LUMPUR GOVT ATROCITIES

A photo report posted by Philippine Sabah Claim Forum member PManalo; caption reads: "repost from REACT Phil. June 25, 2013 @ 8:05 pm 116 deportees arrived @ Bongao Port, karamihan sa kanila ay menor de edad pa kasama na rin isang 2 kalahating taong gulang na bata at dalawa sa menor de edad na deportees nagkakaroon na ng deperensya sa pagiisip dahil ikunulong daw sila ng 100 days sa tawau sabah malaysia." Also posted on Sabah Claim Society community page. 

Muslim families in Sulu are in dire need of your help for the Tausugs and the Suluks who have gone and continue to go through the most horrendous experience following the Tanduo siege in Sabah. 

While our government is showing sympathy to our kababayans who are convicted of a crime in a foreign country and is taking drastic action to help save their lives, our Muslim families in Sabah are still suffering from the atrocities of Malaysian troops and police authorities without overt sympathy from the tenants of Malacanang.  

Many had been incarcerated and starved before deportation; many have died or been killed and will never see the shores of Sulu; others have left Sabah on their own to escape death. There is a vast number of Suluk "deportees" from their own Sabah homeland who need help. The forced and unjust "deportation" in the most inhuman circumastances has not stopped. Those who have luckily reached the shores of Sulu are in need of food and medicine. The sick, the wounded, the hungry need help. 

Raayat Bangsa Suluk, a charity group by the Kiram family of Sulu, has set up a group on Facebook. The group has just put up a Paypal account through which someone - especially located overseas, who wishes to help can send donation online. If you wish to donate in kind or in person, you can also go to their physical office address. 

Here's their PayPal Account: kiramn@yahoo.com

To donate locally and in person, here's a "how to do it" list from Fatima Shehan Kiram Idjirani of the Raayat Bangsa Suluk:

"If someone asks for our Org's address so they can send donations in kind, please refer them to 1) Address: Suite 2306 Cityland 10 Tower 2, H.V. Dela Costa Street corner Street Makati City 1226; and 2) please go to the Files Tab of this group page and forward to them the Donation Form. The form is much needed for auditing purposes. Thank you :)"

Anyone interested may also download a form from the group by clicking on the following Facebook link: Raayat Bangsa Suluk

Another organisation through which help to our Suluks families may be coursed is One World Institute, Inc., a non-profit organisation, headed by one of our compatriots, Yolanda Ortega Stern, who has been doing this silently for years now. This organization has provided livelihood programs for our people. If you have a Facebook account, please visit their Facebook page and "LIKE" it to know more. You can get more information from the page how to help. Link: One World Institute

Please visit their Facebook link to view page and "LIKE" it. There's some information about the organization and how it provides a livelihood program for the people there. Our compatriot, Yolanda Ortega Stern heads this organization and has been doing charitable projects silently without fanfare. But the organisation deserves to be noticed and those who can help may do so. 

Here's something we have copied and pasted from One World Institute:

One World Institute will be initiating a new pilot project in Sulu in Coconut Processing to help our OWI community earn money for their daily bread. They will grate and press the coconuts to sell the "sapal" and the cold squeezed virgin coconut oil. Filipino innovative technology for low cost production in an area that suffers lack of electricity, will be utilized. 

We will also be helping TechnoteBambooPhil promote their Bamboo project by encouraging growing bamboo wherever we can. They now have a nursery in Kidapawan, Cotabato. Rimmon Paren has trained and is ready. The OWI community will initially join in providing the bamboo to them. Seedlings are now for sale. 

To our partners, you can be an investor/partner or donate Php 55 K for a coconut processing machine. Or you can donate bamboo seedlings purchased in Kidapawan. 

OWI will provide the logistics and market for all the products, using our Seaweed Farm Associations as the model. The community owns the project, OWI manages, markets, and they get all the income. 

OWI does not charge administrative fees from any donations. What you give is what they get. 

Our Seaweed Farms continue to thrive. Hundreds of families are subsisting today on the income they derive from selling their dried seaweeds. More could be done for them if we had a processing plant for secondary processing. We will be experimenting with using the same machine to chop seaweed as well. 

OWI, AAI, and IPI will join again in the sharing of hypertensive medicines and books to hard hit areas where libraries perished during Pablo. Dengue is on the rise again. 

So join our Coconut Army, the Seaweed Navy and the Bamboo Brigade. Plant bamboo. 

Thank you to all our volunteers and partners as we change gears from wheelchair distribution to concentrate our scarce resources on old and new projects that help our communities put food on the table. We have listened to the OWI communities. "We cannot eat books" is a desperate commentary on the hard times. 

Join us one and all, in the projects that fill the heart. The difference is YOU. 

For more, click here.

NOTE BENE: We, the Admins of the Philippine Sabah Claim Forum, its Defenders community page and its sister sites on FB and on the worldwide web, would like to emphasize, that we are not in any manner connected to the above organisations and are in no way responsible for these organizations. We have posted the above sites on the Philippine Sabah Claim Forum and its sister sites on Facebook and in the Group's blogs in response to enquiries by some members on how they could help. The posts on how to help Suluks in dire need following their forced and unjustified deportation from Sabah are a PUBLIC SERVICE. Thank you.

~~ Administrators

• Philippine Sabah Claim Forum
• Defenders of the Philippine Sabah & Spratly Claims
• Sabah Claim Society

28 June 2013

AFP Modernization: Are there only amateurs in the PH Department of National Defence?

A member of the Defender of Philippine Sabah & Spratly Claims community wrote: on why PH Department of Defence officials changed their mind about buying the Maestrale-class frigates of the Italian Navy,:

"I was reading on a different Phil. military forum that the DND analysts decided not to buy the Maestrales because the long-term maintenance costs was going to be too high so the thinking now is to purchase 2 new frigates from SK with a budget of P18-B (or P9-B each)"

Defenders of the Philippine Sabah & Spratly Claims: We say, good on the DND! However, the DND must perform due diligence on each and every major item in the AFP short list BEFORE issuing tons of press releases irresponsibly, eg., that they are buying this or that equipment only to change their mind after a 3-year relentless press campaign saying that they were eyeing, are going to buy, and about to sign contract for the said military hardware. This seems to be a pattern that DND officials past and present have adopted these last TWO decades. 

No wonder, very very few world-class defence conglomerates take PH planners seriously: PH officials take the first defence proponent at their word to the detriment of other, perhaps, equally serious proponents, announce to the world that they've found their dream equipment, assure the Filipino people that they are about to sign the contract and then someone (perhaps a local influence peddler or a politician who has been approached by another proponent) meddles, says something or promises "better" things and BINGO, decision makers change their minds for the umpteenth time!

With that kind of modus operandi which, we must say, began in earnest 20 years ago, the AFP will never be able to upgrade let alone "modernize."

Plain amateurs!

Meanwhile, military planners are left holding an empty bag again.

By Admins
Defenders of Philippine Sabah & Spratly Claims
and of the Philippine Sabah Claim Forum

On national integrity and sovereignty: If President Aquino turned from being a generally perceived weakling and moral coward into a fighting leader, would you give him your all out support?

ON THE ISSUE OF NATIONAL INTEGRITY AND SOVEREIGNTY, a question to Philippine patriots and to the community of the Defenders of the Philippine Sabah & Spratly Claims: 

President NoyNoy Aquino will soon be delivering his State of the Nation Address... If President Noynoy Aquino decides to turned around from being a generally perceived weakling and moral coward in order to face the nation's foreign bullies, and as one member says, 'pounds his fist on the table', and announced that...

"NO nation will succeed in stealing Philippine territory! I am ordering the Philippine Navy and the Philippine Coast Guard to deploy all available ships to patrol our EEZ, guard our territories, protect and defend them against would-be foreign intruders at all cost... Furthermore, let this be known that I will not tolerate foreign state-sanctioned human rights violations on my people in Sabah..."

Would you let 'bygones be bygones' and give your ALL OUT support to NoyNoy Aquino, i.e., without reservation?

Please answer with either Yes or No... Thank you.

NB: If your answer is "NO" or "NOT SURE", please explain why not? Thank you very much.

NNB: Please feel free to share this post.

By Admins, Defenders of the Philippine Sabah & Spratly Claims: 

06 June 2013

Philippine 'peacenickers': "None is so blind as them that will not see"

A repost from Defenders of Philippine Sabah & Spratly Claims community:

PH HAS RECEIVED PRAISE FROM FOREIGN AND LOCAL INSTITUTIONS FOR SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCE OF THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY IN 2012 -- EXCEPT, TA DA DA>>>>>> FROM MALAYSIA... IN FACT MALAYSIA RATING SERVICES RATED PHILIPPINES AS LAGGARD IN THE REGION!

Typical batty peacenickers from PH panel: "None is so blind as them that will not see!" aptly describes the typical bat-eyed peacenickers from Ph panel in the ongoing "Framework Agreement" engineered by Malaysia.

WAKE UP PHILIPPINES!!! MALAYSIA IS NOT A FRIEND!!! 

OUR VIEW: Malaysia DOES NOT WANT the Philippines to be anything -- BECAUSE it threatens them! HAVEN'T THE PHILIPPINE PEACENICKERS REALISED THAT? 

MALAYSIA IS NOT A FRIEND! Once and for all, PH must accept that! PH must not allow them to engineer the whole Malysia-MILF-PH Framework or whatever because it's bound to dismantle the Republic! 

Really, "None is so blind as them that will not see!" -- aptly describes PH.

~ Admins, Defenders of the Philippine Sabah & Spratly Claims

28 January 2013

STORY: Pragmatic rating

Philippine Daily Inquirer

9:39 pm | Monday, January 28th, 2013

The Aquino administration has received much praise from foreign and local institutions for the “spectacular” performance of the Philippine economy in 2012. The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and private think-tanks have all been bullish on the Philippines. 

Thus, many were surprised by the release last week by Malaysian credit-watcher RAM Rating Services of its inaugural sovereign ratings for five leading Southeast Asian countries. In brief, it showed the Philippines as the laggard among the region’s major economies.  

In an 80-page report titled “Leading Asean Sovereigns,” RAM gave the Philippines a rating of “BBB” on its long-term borrowings, meaning that it had only “moderate capacity to meet its obligations.” 

The Philippines was also given a short-term rating of P2, also the lowest in this category, meaning that it had “adequate capacity to meet its short-term financial obligations.” 

Malaysia and Singapore got the highest ratings of “AAA” and P1, respectively, meaning “superior capacity” to pay long-term debt and “strong capacity” to settle short-term obligations. Indonesia and Thailand got “AA” and P1, the former indicating “strong capacity” to meet long-term obligations.  

RAM was incorporated in 1990 and listed among its shareholders Fitch Ratings, McGraw-Hill Asian Holdings (Singapore), and the Malaysian subsidiaries of Bank of America, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Deutsche Bank, Citibank, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase and Standard Chartered.  

Link to full article: http://opinion.inquirer.net/45841/pragmatic-rating

No 'ifs', no 'buts': China PLA Navy must invoke Right to Innocent Passage if cruising through PH seas, PH western seaboard

For info of members of the Defenders of the Philippine Sabah and Spratly Claims  with regard to maritime issues, i.e., freedom of navigation, maritime trade, etc.: 

We must remember that our EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) is ours to exploit exclusively for economic purposes but is NOT forbidden to China, Taiwan, Malaysia or to any other foreign ships, not even to armed warships, but THERE ARE CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS FOR ANY FOREIGN SHIP TO USE OUR territorial seas or to pass through our EEZ. Ships entering our territorial seas must invoke RIGHT OF INNOCENT PASSAGE. In doing so, they are recognising our sovereignty rights and our right to the our seas.

International or foreign flag bearing ships are allowed to go through PH waters. However, foreign armed vessels MUST invoke right of innocent passage. Foreign ships, especially armed ships that do not invoke this basic international law of the sea may be considered to potentially cause us prejudice and can be considered "hostile."

If, for instance, China Navy refuses to do it, they are, in effect, telling our government that they do not recognise those waters as Philippine EEZ. In such a case, China PLA navy ships cruising through our waters are doing it without permission and may be considered hostile as in "armed and dangerous" and can be classified as enemy warships.

So, what is Right of Innocent Passage?

As summed up by the US Dept of Defense:

It is the right of all ships to engage in continuous and expeditious surface passage through the territorial sea and archipelagic waters of foreign coastal states in a manner not prejudicial to its peace, good order, or security. Passage includes stopping and anchoring, but only if incidental to ordinary navigation or necessary by force majeure or distress, or for the purpose of rendering assistance to persons, ships, or aircraft in danger or distress. ~~ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

A more comprehensive definition of Right of Innocent Passage: A term of international law referring to a ship or aircraft's right to enter and pass through another's territory so long as it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the other state.

The right to innocent passage has been codified in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of December 10, 1982, extracts from 17 and 19 follow:

"... ships of all States, whether coastal or land-locked, enjoy the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea. 

"Passage is innocent so long as it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State. Such passage shall take place in conformity with this Convention and with other rules of international law. 

"Passage of a foreign ship shall be considered to be prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State if in the territorial sea it engages in any of the following activities: 

• any threat or use of force against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of the coastal State, or in any other manner in violation of the principles of international law embodied in the Charter of the United Nations;
• any exercise or practice with weapons of any kind;
• any act aimed at collecting information to the prejudice of the defence or security of the coastal State;
• any act of propaganda aimed at affecting the defence or security of the coastal State;
• the launching, landing or taking on board of any aircraft;
• the launching, landing or taking on board of any military device;
• the loading or unloading of any commodity, currency or person contrary to the customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and regulations of the coastal State;
• any act of wilful and serious pollution contrary to this Convention;
• any fishing activities;
• the carrying out of research or survey activities;
• any act aimed at interfering with any systems of communication or any other facilities or installations of the coastal State;
• any other activity not having a direct bearing on passage." 

NB: Even United States Navy warships do not just cruise through our waters without "permission" - it is a courtesy required of all navies to perform as part of the International Law of the Sea on Right of Innocent Passage.

~~ Admins, Defenders of the Philippine Sabah & Spratly Claims
01 June 2013

Source: Duhaime Legal Dictionary 

Sound off the alarm: Pirates are coming! China invades Spratlys with so-called fishing flotilla

Folowing the imposition of a 15-nautical mile no entry zone around Scarborough Shoal which is located some 130 nautical miles from Zambales and is found well within the 200-nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Philippines, China launched an offensive yesterday to show virtual control of the Spratlys by sending one of its largest recorded fishing fleets to West Philippine Sea.

The waters in the Spratlys are known to be rich fishing grounds and are believed to contain a vast reservoir of oil and gas. But we are not confident that China is sending a Chinese fishing flotilla to the Spratlys merely to do a bit of fishing. We believe that some of these so-called 'fishing ships' include China PLA Navy elements which they have deployed "to plant" potential military communications or warfare paraphernalia which, in the future or in case of an armed conflict, will help serve as beachhead installations.

Mischief Reef stolen by China
from PH in 1994

We must not to forget that in 1994, while the Philippines was not looking, China invaded Mischief Reef and installed 'sheds' which China leadership pretexted were to be used as shelter for their fishermen.  Before the decade was over, China had transformed Mischief Reef into a sophisticated "listening" outpost and has turned it into a full-pledged military garrison.

Note that China has been aggressively pursuing a militarisation objective in the Spratlys and have been continuosly doing naval warfare exercises in the area that include underwater minelaying. It is a known principle that the country that controls the Spratlys and its waters will also control the sea lanes of communication (SLOCs) which could seriously imperil freedom of navigation for many countries that use those SLOCs.

It is imperative for the Philippine Navy and the Philippine Coast Guard to patrol the territorial waters of the Philippine Kalayaan Islands relentlessly to ensure that this latest naval maneuver by China will not go 'overboard' as in invade our inhabited Pag-Asa Island in the Spratlys and the other occupied PH Spratly territories. 

The Philippine Navy and the Coast Guard must put it in their heads that their presence in those waters is a deterrence in itself. 

Forewarned is forearmed! 

~~ By Anne de Bretagne

For the Defenders of the Philippine Sabah and Spratly Claims

07 May 2013

INQUIRER NEWS REPORT: China sends large fleet to disputed Spratlys 

BEIJING—China has sent one of its largest recorded fishing fleets to disputed islands in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), state-run media said on Tuesday, amid tensions over Beijing’s assertion of its claims in the region. 

A flotilla including 30 fishing vessels set sail on Monday for the Spratly Islands, an archipelago disputed between China and other countries including the Philippines and Vietnam, the China Daily reported. 

The fleet left China’s southern province of Hainan for a 40-day trip to the region, the report said, and includes two large transport and supply ships. 

Chinese fishing boats regularly travel to the Spratlys, parts of which are also claimed by Taiwan and Brunei, but the fleet dispatched Monday was as large as one described as the biggest ever launched from the province when it set off last year. 

China will make “every effort to guarantee the fleet’s safety,” the report quoted an official from the department of ocean and fisheries as saying. 

China and neighboring countries have long used fishing fleets and maritime patrols to assert their territorial claims, and have upgraded their naval forces in recent years as tensions over claims in the West Philippine Sea have risen. 

The Philippines and Vietnam have complained that China is becoming increasingly aggressive in its actions in the area — such as harassing fishermen — and also through bullying diplomatic tactics. 

The waters around the Spratlys are rich in fishing resources and it is believed they could hold large oil and gas reserves.

OTHER NOTES:

What are the Spratlys? 

According to Wikipedia, The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea. The archipelago lies off the coasts of thePhilippines and Malaysia (Sabah), about one third of the way from there to southern Vietnam. They comprise less than four square kilometers of land area spread over more than 425,000 square kilometers of sea. The Spratlys are one of three archipelagos of the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea which comprise more than 30,000 islands and reefs...

A BIT OF KALAYAAN ISLANDS/PHILIPPINE SPRATLY ISLANDS HISTORY (from Wikipedia):

The Philippines sent troops to the Spratly group for the first time in 1968. It prioritized large islands such as Pagasa (Thitu) Island, Likas (West York) Island, Parola Island (Northeast Cay), Kota (Loaita) Island, Lawak (Nanshan) Island, and Pugad Island (Southwest Cay). Two small islands, Patag (Flat) Island and Panata Island (Lankiam Cay), were also occupied. Both are less than a hectare in size. 

To further the claim of the Philippines on the island group, the late President Ferdinand Marcos, on June 11, 1978, formally annexed the Kalayaan Islands by virtue of Presidential Decree No.1596 to the Palawan.

December 2012 photo of China attack
submarine being fitted for warfare 

In very early February, we sounded the following alarm:  BEWARE OF YOUR BACKDOOR NEIGHBOORS KEEP UP THE DRUM BEAT FOR SCARBOROUGH SHOAL AND FOR ALL PH ISLANDS IN THE SPRATLYS!

DO NOT FORGET SCARBOROUGH SHOAL... KEEP UP THE DRUM BEAT FOR SCARBOROUGH SHOAL AND FOR ALL PH ISLANDS IN THE SPRATLYS. 

PH TECHNICALLY 'OCCUPIES' 10 FEATURES comprising seven islands and three reefs in the Spratlys but 'militarily occupies' only 7 of the 10 features*...
BUT IF YOU THINK, ONLY CHINA IS STEALING OUR ISLANDS (Mischief Reef, Scarborough, Half Moon Shoal, Sabina Shoal), WELL, YOU ARE MISTAKEN!

MALAYSIA HAS STOLEN FROM PH TWO ISLANDS THAT TECHNICALLY BELONG TO THE KALAYAAN ISLAND GROUP while PH was not looking... They occupied Erica Reef (Gabriela Silang Reef) which is part of the Philippine Kalayaan Island Group attached to the Municipality of Kalayaan, District of Palawan as well as Investigator Shoal (Pawikan Reef). Both are well within the 200 nautical mile EEZ of the Philippines.

NOTE: In 1999, Malaysia occupied Gabriela Silang Reef (Erica Reef) and Pawikan Reef (Investigator Shoal), causing the Philippines to protest but nothing came out of it. (Incidentally, Vietnam has also stolen one our islands when PH troops were away partying... But that is another story.)

Not only has Malaysia illegally annexed Sabah, they now use Sabah to lay claims and to occupy other islets, reefs, shoals that they say are within Sabah's 200 nautical mile EEZ. They occupied Swallow Reef (Celerio for the Philippines), which they now call Layang-Layang, on the basis that it is within Sabah's EEZ and have been maintaining a Malaysia Navy offshore security post called Uniform Station on the reef.

*CLAIM & OCCUPATION
The Philippines is now left with the following "features" in the Spratly (Wiki):
Pagasa Island (Thitu Island)
Likas Island (West York Island)
Parola Island (Northeast Cay)
Lawak Island (Nanshan Island)
Kota Island (Loaita Island)
Patag Island (Flat Island)
Panata Island (Lankiam Cay)
Rizal Reef (Commodore Reef)
Balagtas Reef (Irving Reef)
Ayungin Reef (Second Thomas Reef)

But only 7 of them are militarily occupied (Wiki):
Occupied by the Philippines
Thitu Island · Pagasa Island
West York Island · Likas Island
Northeast Cay · Parola Island
Nanshan Island · Lawak Island
Loaita Island · Kota Island
Flat Island · Patag Island
Lankiam Cay · Panata Island

BEWARE OF YOUR BACKDOOR NEIGHBOURS!

We also posted about so-called China PLA Navy's 'active coastal defence': First and second island chains:

A BETTER ILLUSTRATION OF THE "FIRST AND SECOND ISLAND CHAINS" WHICH ARE THE STRATEGIC FOCUS OF THE CHINA PLA NAVY's 'ACTIVE COASTAL DEFENCE'.  

This is why we will be seeing more of China PLA naval maneuvers from the Pacific Ocean into the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea -- just as we will be seeing more and more of US naval fleet maneuvers from the Pacific Ocean and the West PH Seas too! These "First and Second Island Chains" routes will be become the biggest naval "playground" in the world.

More and more, China will be strengthening their capability to obstruct those waters in the event of a war with the United States and they will do it by constantly doing maneuvers through those "ISLAND CHAINS". If you noticed, yesterday, China PLA Navy led by missile destroyer Qingdao triumphantly announced that their fleet that was deployed for patrol and other exercises had passed the "First Island Chain."

The United States knows that the 'First Island Chain' and the 'Second Island Chain' will be crucial in its strategy decision making process. In fact, the 'forecast' is that in "another 10-15 years, America’s qualitative military advantage will be eroded to the point that a conflict over Taiwan would jeopardize several large ships and aircraft carriers."

~~ Admin AdB, Defenders of the Philippine Sabah & Spratly Claims 

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• Philippines must not allow China to creep invade the Spratlys just like they did to Mischief Reef
• Mischief Reef and then Scarborough Shoal: "Never again?"
• The importance of the Spratlys and why it may be a "flash point" if China insists on blocking passage
• Cause of the Philippines-China stand off in Scarborough
• How can the Philippines reverse its Scarborough tactical blunder?
• China's Act of Piracy: Philippines must continue patrolling its Exclusive Economic Zone
• United Nation Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), West Philippine Sea and Scarborough Shoal
• China and Malaysia have hijacked PH territories in West Philippine Sea 
• China PLA Navy's 'active coastal defence': First and second island chains 
• China's ultimate weapons of mass destructions will be their inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) 
• China's minelaying technology

PH Election 2013: Senatorial candidates who spoke out for the Republic's and its people's Sabah claim

PHILIPPINE ELECTION 2013: These are the senatorial candidates who spoke - in varying degrees of eloquence - about the Philippine Sabah claim following the Sabah stand off in February. From what we understand, these candidates, if they win, will raise the country's claim so all may know that the Republic has not given up on its people's claim. 

We need as many voices as we can gather for the country's Sabah claim. The fight will be tough because the current dispensation is very much against Philppine sovereignty rights over Sabah and will do everything and anything to stifle the voices for Sabah.

On the strength of their courage to speak for the country's sovereignty rights claim to Sabah and for speaking out for the Filipinos who were massacred by Kuala Lumpur troops, the Philippine Sabah Claim Forum group is endorsing the following candidates as compiled by PSCF co-founder and Admin MGA.

~~ Administrators
Philippine Sabah Claim Forum (Group)
Philippine Sabah and Spratly Claims (Community) 
06 May 2013

NB: We promise to hold each and every single one of them to their Sabah claim promise when they are finally elected senators of the Republic.

LINKS TO CANDIDATES PROFILES:

# 28 - Koko Pimentel -  http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/aquilino-pimentel-iii-platforms-advocacy/

# 21 - Marwil Llasos -   http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/marwil-llasos-platforms-advocacy/

#27 - Ricardo Penson - http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/ricardo-penson-platforms-advocacy/

#31 - Eddie Villanueva -  http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/eddie-villanueva-platforms-advocacy/

#4 - Greco Belgica -  http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/greco-belgica-platforms-advocacy/

#16 - Edward Hagedorn -   http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/edward-hagedorn-platforms-advocacy/

#1 - Samson Alcantara -   http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/samson-alcantara-platforms-advocacy/

# 6 - Teddy Casino -  http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/teodoro-casino-platforms-advocacy/

#15 - Richard Gordon -  http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/dick-gordon-platforms-advocacy/

# 10 - Carlos de los Reyes -http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/john-carlos-de-los-reyes-platforms-advocacy/

#25 - Ramon Montano -  http://www.ivoteph.com/platforms/ramon-montano-and-his-platforms/

 #7 - Allan Cayetano - /www.ivoteph.com/platforms/alan-peter-cayetano-platforms-advocacy/