Girl kidnapped in Philippines

A six-year-old British girl has been kidnapped at gunpoint by Muslim extremists in the
Philippines who are believed to be seeking a ransom, the Philippines military said.

April Grant, the daughter of Philippines national Nina Rasul Grant and a Briton Frank Grant,
was snatched from her home in Lamitan town on Basilan island, which is 550 miles south of
the capital, Manila, at about 9.30pm local time yesterday.

The area is a notorious trouble spot for kidnappings by the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF) - the group police believe snatched the little girl. MILF is fighting to create a
separate Islamic state in the southern Philippines.

Mrs Grant has said the men demanded 100,000 pesos - £1,300 - from her but she only had
1,000 pesos (£13), so the men grabbed April, told Mrs Grant to raise the money, and fled
down the Bubawan River. Both mother and daughter had planned to join Mr Grant in
Scotland.

The Philippines National Police and armed forces, along with trained negotiators were
immediately despatched to the area. Sergeant Bong Ragasa of the Philippines armed forces
said: 'It is believed to be a kidnapping for ransom but the hostage-takers have not made any
demands yet.

The girl was taken from her residence by four unidentified men who entered the
premises. They left, taking the girl with them, in two motorised boats.

'The MILF is a Muslim group that has carried out a lot of terrorist action in the area. It is a
very poor area far from the city.'

Mrs Grant pleaded for her daughter's life on a local radio broadcast. 'Please don't hurt her,'
she told local radio station DXRC. 'Please, I beg you to free my daughter.'

The kidnappers had threatened to kill April if she told police or troops that her daughter had
been snatched, she said. Mrs Grant said she phoned her husband immediately after April's
abduction. The Foreign Office in London said officials were investigating.

Last April, the MILF splinter group Abu Sayyaf kidnapped 21 Western holidaymakers and
Asian workers from a Malaysian dive resort and took them to the Philippine island of Jolo,
near Tawi Tawi.

The same group later kidnapped several other people, including foreign journalists. All but
two of the captives, American Jeffrey Schilling and Filipino dive resort worker Roland Ullah,
were freed by the rebels, reportedly in exchange for huge ransoms.

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Philippines
With Indonesian and Malaysian sailors recently being taken hostage by the Abu Sayyaf
Group (ASG), a Philippine terrorist group with a long history of kidnap-for-ransom
operations, what is the risk posed by ASG for traders and tourists in the Southern
Philippines?

Recent events have again brought international attention to instability in the Philippines’
southern provinces. On March 10th, the jihadist Abu Sayyaf Group released a video
threatening to execute three foreign hostages – including a former Canadian mining executive
if the hostages’ governments did not pay a ransom.

Only a few weeks later, on March 26th, gunmen boarded two Indonesian vessels off the coast
of the Philippines and took ten sailors hostage. Shortly afterwards, on April 1st, armed men
seized a Malaysian cargo ship and detained four crewmen in Philippine waters. Analysts
suspect ASG may be linked to this latest incident as well.

So what do recent trends in ASG’s kidnapping operations mean? And what are the economic
consequences for tourism, investment, and development in the Southern Philippines?

Trends in ASG’s kidnapping operations

There have been three major spikes in ASG’s kidnap-for-ransom (KFR) over the last few
years: 2008-2009, when the Manila Times reported on over 24 cases of kidnappings with as
many as 50 victims; 2011 when the DOS reported as many as 20 individuals were
kidnapped by ASG; and the current from 2014-2016 which has seen at least 15
kidnappings by ASG, with as many as 40 victims.

The vast majority of ASG’s kidnappings take place in the Sulu Archipelago, particularly
Tawi-Tawi, Sulu, Basilan, Zamboanga City, and Zamboanga Sibugay. More recently, ASG
has even conducted raids along the Malaysian coast in Semporna (2013), Lahud Datu (2014),
and Sandakan (2015).

ASG is opportunistic and willing to target virtually anyone that appears vulnerable. Their
victims have included major executives and government officials, but also teachers, factory
workers, children, and aid workers. Kidnappings are conducted in groups that can range in
size from 4 to 20-man teams, depending on the target and available manpower.

In recent years, ASG has increasingly targeted foreign citizens. The vast majority of 2008-
2009 ASG kidnapping victims were Filipino citizens, but 2014-2016 has seen a marked
increase in foreign hostage-taking. In 2015 alone, ASG was linked to the kidnappings of a
Norwegian, a Korean, two Canadians, and two Malaysians. Presently, the Philippine
military is aware of at least 18 foreign citizens being held hostage throughout the
Southern Philippines by ASG and other KFR groups.

Sumber : http://globalriskinsights.com/2016/04/kidnapping-risk-philippines/
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