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WORLD NEWS Saturday 1 June 2019

Dutch hostage held by Filipino militants killed in gunbattle

By JIM GOMEZ of authority to speak about
Associated Press military matters publicly.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Sahiron’s emissaries had
A long-held Dutch hostage recently expressed a will-
was fatally shot by his mili- ingness to hold talks about
tant captors Friday when Horn’s fate but demanded
he tried to escape during that all government forces
a gunbattle in the jungles withdraw from Patikul town
of the southern Philippines, before any negotiations,
military officials said. a demand that Philippine
Ewold Horn was killed when authorities could not grant
he made a dash to free- because of the security im-
dom during a fierce firefight plications, the official said,
between the Abu Sayyaf without elaborating.
militants and army troops in The Abu Sayyaf, an off-
Sulu province’s mountain- shoot of the decades-long
ous Patikul town, military Muslim separatist insurgen-
commander Brig. Gen. Di- cy in the south, has been
vino Pabayo Jr. said. blacklisted by Washington
At least six militants were and Manila as a terrorist or-
killed and 12 others were ganization for involvement
wounded in the nearly In this photo released by the Joint Task Force Sulu, Philippine soldiers carry bodies towards a in kidnappings, behead-
two-hour firefight, in which military helicopter as pursuit operations continue in Patikul, Sulu province, southern Philippines, ings and deadly bombings.
eight soldiers were also Friday, May 31, 2019. The group was founded in
wounded, the military said. Associated Press the early 1990s on Basilan
Among those killed was the a river about 100 meters Tawi, near Sulu, in 2012. him to join me, but he re- island, near Jolo. An un-
wife of Abu Sayyaf com- (330 feet) from the scene Sarenas escaped by jump- fused,” Vinciguerra said in wieldy collective of Islamic
mander Radulan Sahiron, of the battle, military offi- ing into the sea while they December 2014. preachers and outlaws, it
a militant long wanted by cials said. Troops stumbled were being taken by mo- Although the militants have vowed to wage jihad, or
the United States and the on the militants while hunt- torboat to Jolo shortly after demanded huge ransoms holy war, in the predomi-
Philippines for banditry and ing Abu Sayyaf fighters they were abducted. for hostages in the past, Sa- nantly Roman Catholic
assaults. who carried out an attack Vinciguerra escaped two hiron kept Horn close by him Philippines, but lost its key
Pabayo condemned that killed two children and years later when he hacked for years in the hope that leaders early in combat,
Horn’s killing and the mili- wounded seven other vil- a rebel commander and military aircraft would not sending it on a violent path
tants’ “utter disregard for lagers in a Patikul village then was shot and wound- drop bombs on his camps of extremism and criminal-
human rights.” about a week ago. ed by another militant as he and risk endangering the ity.
Government forces “tried Horn and a Swiss tourist, fled in a dramatic escape life of a European hostage, About 320 armed Abu
our very best to safely res- Lorenzo Vinciguerra, along as government forces were a military official who has Sayyaf fighters remain in
cue him from his captors” with Filipino guide Ivan firing artillery rounds toward helped monitor the mili- the south, some of them
and suffered injuries them- Sarenas were kidnapped the militants in Patikul. tants for years told The As- aligned with the Islamic
selves, Pabayo said. by gunmen during a bird- Vinciguerra said he asked sociated Press. The official State group, Sulu military
Horn’s body was recovered watching trip in the south- Horn to join his escape. “I spoke on condition of ano- spokesman Lt. Col. Gerard
by government forces near ernmost province of Tawi talked to him and asked nymity because of a lack Monfort said.q

Singapore PM: Global rules could change with China’s rise

By ANNABELLE LIANG tual property, cybersecurity barring U.S. companies
Associated Press and social media.” from selling it technology
SINGAPORE (AP) — Singa- Lee was the keynote without government ap-
pore Prime Minister Lee speaker at the Shangri-La proval.
Hsien Loong said Friday Dialogue, attended by U.S. Lee expects China to want
that countries including the Acting Secretary of De- a say in any new rules, be-
United States need to be fense Patrick Shanahan, cause it did not participate
willing to change interna- Chinese Defense Minister in the creation of current
tional rules in response to a Wei Fenghe and other de- ones. “And this is an entirely
stronger China. fense officials and aca- reasonable expectation,”
Speaking at an annual se- demics. he said.
curity conference in Sin- He noted that the U.S. “has In return, China should take
gapore, Lee said China the most difficult adjust- on more responsibilities and
must in turn play a greater ment to make” as the “pre- not expect to be treated in
role in supporting trade eminent power.” the same way as it was in
frameworks and upholding Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivers a keynote Earlier this month, the U.S. the past, he said.
address during the opening dinner of the 18th International
peace and stability in the Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue, an and China countries con- This extends to trade ar-
region and beyond. annual defense and security forum in Asia, in Singapore, Friday, cluded their 11th round of rangements and conces-
“Countries have to accept May 31, 2019. trade talks with no agree- sions that the country ne-
that China will continue to Associated Press ment and raised import tax- gotiated when it joined the
grow and strengthen, and “China will have its own infocomms and artificial es on each other’s goods. World Trade Organization
that it is neither possible nor legitimate interests and intelligence. New inter- The Commerce Depart- in 2001.
wise for them to prevent ambitions, including to national rules need to be ment has also placed Chi- At that time, China’s mer-
this from happening,” he develop indigenously ad- made in many areas, in- nese tech giant Huawei on chandise trade accounted
said. vanced technologies like cluding trade and intellec- its “Entity List,” effectively for 4% of the world’s total.q