Manila set to court-martial mutineers

Manila set to court-martial mutineers

PHILIPPINES: Soldiers who allegedly took part in a mutiny last
month are set to stand trial in a military court, President
Gloria Arroyo said on Monday.

Arroyo, the commander-in-chief of the military, has accused
more than 300 junior officers and men of mounting a coup attempt
during their brief takeover of part of Manila's Makati financial
district.

The armed forces inspector-general has recommended that 108
officers and 45 enlisted men face court-martial, on top of
rebellion charges already filed against the entire group who
surrendered peacefully within 24 hours of seizing Makati.

Six of the junior officers accused of leading the rebellion
meanwhile showed up in court on Monday in a habeas corpus
hearing. --AFP

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Four Indonesians killed in shootout
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Four Indonesians killed in shootout

MALAYSIA: Four armed Indonesian robbers suspected of carrying out
more than 25 heists were shot dead in a clash with Malaysian
police in southern Johor state, reports said on Monday.

The four were believed to be en route to another robbery when
they were intercepted by police at a highway after a tip-off, The
Star said.

Police, who had been tracking the suspects for two weeks,
fired several warning shots and ordered them to surrender but the
four charged at the policemen with knives and machetes, prompting
them to shoot, it said. --AFP

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Malaysian pirates kill fisherman
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Malaysian pirates kill fisherman

MALAYSIA: Suspected Malaysian pirates attacked a Vietnamese
fishing boat and killed its captain in the South China Sea near
Malaysia, the coast guard said on Monday.

Three pirates in a boat approached the fishing vessel last
Wednesday and gestured for it to stop.

But the Vietnamese vessel tried to outrun the pirates, who
opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon, killing its 33-year-old
skipper, Le Van Tam. Eight other Vietnamese on board were not
injured.

The pirates boarded the boat and made off with the fishermen's
catch and fishing equipment, said a coast guard official from the
central province of Quang Ngai.

The fishermen, who were all from Quang Ngai, only reached
shore at Khanh Hoa province on Saturday. --AFP

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U.S. priest dies in Thailand

THAILAND: Father Raymond Brennan, an American Roman Catholic
priest who cared for abandoned children for 31 years at an
orphanage he founded in Thailand, has died of heart failure, his
publicist said on Monday. He was 70.

Brennan, born into a devout Irish Catholic family in a poor
neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, died on Saturday at a Bangkok
hospital, a public relations firm representing his orphanage said
in a statement.

Brennan was a highly respected figure in the Thai seaside town
of Pattaya where he had lived and worked since 1972 for children
and other destitute Thais, said the statement.

Fondly known as Father Ray, Brennan joined the missionary
Redemptorists and was ordained on July 2, 1959, a year before he
was posted to Thailand where he had expected to stay for only one
or two years. --AP