Continuation of prior Blog

ASG Acts in past:

(6) The May 27, 2001 kidnapping of 20 from Dos Palmas Resort on Palawan. This included three Americans. One was beheaded, one was killed in a gun battle and one survived a year of captivity by Terrorists. Gracia Burnham wrote In The Presence Of My Enemies about her captivity and currently heads up the Martin and Gracia Burnham Foundatiom....(see prior blog entry)


(7)The beheading of 10 civilian men and the shooting of the 11th who fought back in 2001. The beheadings on Basilan followed the kidnapping of men, women and children from their homes. The were marched through the jungle after the ASG burned down the school. The wives were raped , the men killed and after 3 days the living captives were released. Two wives and one child have testified in court against these terrorists.(in spite of many death threats). They have been very brave and are in need of school supplies and tuition costs.

(8)The Lamitan Seige in June 2001 where many were killed. The hospital and Catholic Church next door were attacked and one house was burned. (Eventually more will be written here about this based on written official statements in Lamitan of the Seige)

(9) The 2007 beheading of Philippine Marines after they were tortured.

(18)The 2004 (February) bombing of the Super Ferry leaving Manila and at sea. 63 were dead and 53 were missing.The ASG claimed that this bombing was completed by a suicide bomber. (I have successfully treated 2 adults and one youg child who lost everything in this tragedy, but they did survive. They all were suffering from PTSD.)

(11)The killing of a large group of Marines who were invited to a wedding and instead it was a murder plot.

(12) The kidnapping of many women,children and men in the area. There are currently 4 that are held...one male nursing student and three women. There are almost always brought to Basilan and Tipo Tipo or a camp in the mountains seem to be the hiding places.Many kidnappings of local girls lead to gang raping until they agree to become Muslim. Some are forced to marry one of the Muslim terrorists. Most of these go unreported because the family is ashamed or the women is "propety" or "legally" a marriesd adult.

(13)the shooting and hacking of civilians (some used as human shields to escape from the Military) in 2008. Civilians were hacked with bolo knives.Homes were burnend and there were bombings of markets, hotels, municipal buildings,,churches, buses, movie theatres etc. Attempts were made to bomb elementary schools but the bombs were discovered.

(14)THE FORCED EVACUATION OF 500,000 CIVILIAN CITIZENS OF CENTRAL MINDANAO.THIS WAS THE RESULT OF ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS BY COMMANDERS Bravo and Kato. They are MILF but many think there is no difference between the two groups.

(15) The 2008 kidnapping of two young children on Sulu, an island in the southern Philippines.

(16) The extortion of money and help from many local citizens. (See Extortion letter earlier in this Blog)

(17) The placing of one bomb on Basilan that was discovered and exploded by the Marines. One local was hurt.