MANILA, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III on Saturday urged the followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III to "surrender now" as he admonished them for choosing a wrong path to stake their claim on Sabah. "If you have grievances, the path you chose was wrong," Aquino said in a statement, a day after the more than two-week-old siege in a remote village in Lahad Datu turned deadly. "The just, and indeed, the only correct thing for you to do is to surrender," he said. Twelve of the close to 200 Filipinos in Sabah and two Malaysian security personnel were killed in Friday's firefight that was reported to have ended the standoff. The dozens of Kiram f...
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