Kidnappers Issue List of Demands
From Times Wire Reports
Muslim extremists who abducted 21 hostages from a Malaysian diving resort a week ago issued their first written demands, and a journalist who saw the captives said they were being held in a small hut in squalid conditions and were poorly fed. On Sulu island, the kidnappers, members of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group, demanded a return of barter trading, a ban on large fishing boats and full implementation of a 1976 agreement that provided for a Muslim autonomous region, said a Muslim religious leader who served as a go-between.
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