After 25 days Op Daulat, the enemy is now less than 10 people

Lahad Datu crisis is not over yet

After 25 days Daulat launched Operation, security forces validates the enemy is now less than 10 people.
   
Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib said the figure takes into account the amount of enemies shot down and captured over enemy number during Tanduo foothold in the village, on February 12 last year, about 200 people.
   
"I can not say that the enemy is not there or not ... we are confident that the enemy was there but the amount is very less, probably less than 10 people," he said at a press conference at the headquarters of Operations at Felda Sahabat 16, near here today.
   
During the invasion incident, security forces shot and killed 68 militants, while 121 individuals detained under the Security Offences (Special Measures) 2012 (Sosma) and 443 detained for various other offenses.
   
He said the offensive movement and the subsequent search operation and clean up now successfully cleared three of the five villages that became the location of the hiding and fighting between security forces and terrorist groups.

Hamza said after Tanduo village, Kampung Tanjung Batu and cleaned Labian village, security forces are now focusing on the area of ​​Cape Anchovy and Lok universal.
   
He said the people of the village of Tanjung Labian will be allowed to return after the family chiefs and heads of villages visited to their homes along the assessment team tomorrow.
   
For the residents of Kampung Tanjung Batu, Hamza said 20 to 25 residents of their homes not damaged will be allowed to return to their homes tomorrow, while the home owners are allowed to live destroyed in temporary evacuation centers.
   
He said that as a security measure, the security forces will continue to be stationed in the village to guard and dominate the area.
   
"In addition we will also perform other policing services to restore the confidence of the people when he was there," he said.