81 Filipino peacekeepers in Syria against ISIS

[peacetalk]

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They're not there as combatants.

[higanstolsdawen]

what do you expect from the anaps. dili jud na muangkon sa ilang sayop.

[DEMONOCIETY]

Gen Singha(ot), is just trying to save face on his incompetence... ph.gov should stop sending troops after oct if this is the type of leader ang modala....

mao ipada lang para himoon bihag sa ISIS sounds like ridiculous

sukol jud!

[salbahis]

They're not there as combatants.

but it doesnt mean they cant shoot back in defense... its on the UN ROE in peacekeeping..

[brownie]

Unsa kahay tabang nga gihatag sa Pilipinas ani nila.

gitabangan ug ampo ilang mga kalag. mao ra tingali gyud na.

[bleedingboi]

For more than hundred years, the Philippines has followed the US military doctrine:

"Evade capture, Resist while a prisoner or Escape from the enemy"

Singha, is obviously unaware of this code and tagged them as "cowards" while most US military officials and military forums all over the world has praised the Filipino peacekeepers for defying capture and fighting 7 hours with low ammo.

[wikki]

since the spanish colonial era, except for lapux2 who died in resistance, Filipino culture = bayot, maayo ra mag trash talk of yawX2 pangitag rason. be it in an online game, actual confrontation or real war the culture shows di na gyud ni ma lalis.

[æRLO]

since the spanish colonial era, except for lapux2 who died in resistance, Filipino culture = bayot, maayo ra mag trash talk of yawX2 pangitag rason. be it in an online game, actual confrontation or real war the culture shows di na gyud ni ma lalis.

OT.actually, up until recently...We have been considered as a predominantly martial race, even though we were subjugated a couple times we still put up a great deal of resistance.

[bleedingboi]

Filipino culture = bayot, maayo ra mag trash talk of yawX2 pangitag rason.

The Battle of Bataan
The Battle of Yultong
The Battle of Tirad Pass, etc...

Your comment is totally reverse to what happened in the above scenarios. We may be jerky, submissive, and jolly folks. But if oppressed and persecuted down to a corner, we fight like wild boars, till the last drop of blood.

[C'thulhu]

Well, General Singha is good at covering ass, as he is now blaming our troops for endangering his negotiations for the Fijians... If our troops surrendered, he could also say that its also their fault why they were captured, so always a way out for him... If he is indeed the awesome negotiator he thinks he is, why don't he offer himself to Al-Nusra in exchange for the fijian eh?

"At this stage we still cannot locate the 45 soldiers that are being held by the Al Nusra Group. Again, negotiators are working hard, trying to re-establish communications with Al Nusra who at the moment have not made any contact with our negotiation team," Tikoitoga said.

"So they are trying their best to re-establish negotiations with them; but again we've been assured by the negotiators that this is normal under the circumstances."

Al Nusra have made a series of disconnected demands which include freeing a jailed Al Qaeda leader, compensation for rebels killed in action and removal of Al Nusra from a UN terrorist listing.

Tikoitoga said Al Nusra would probably come back to negotiations but does not know when.

But Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the commander of Al-Nusra Front has declared that the 45 peacekeepers will be tried under "divine law."

Problem is, if this goes out of hand, might turn sectarian back home in Fiji as they also have a Muslim minority...

Meanwhile, Fiji police are investigating former coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka for warning of retaliation against local Muslims.

"We must also remember that we have a Muslim community in Fiji," Rabuka told Radio New Zealand this week.

"[If] anything should happen to the 45 soldiers that are held there, the unsuspecting and the probably undeserving, will bare the brunt of the feelings of the people, [and that] could be the Muslim community in Fiji."

Fiji police assistant commissioner Rusiate Tudravu said a criminal investigation into Rabuka was under way.

Ahh... Religion of peace indeed...

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