Jolo a no-go area for foreigners


Golingai (second from left), The Star associate editor PK Katharason (fourth from left) and Commander Global (third from right) at an Abu Sayyaf hideout in Jolo island.

“IT is difficult to go to Jolo now,” said a Filipino contact I met in Zamboanga City, southern Philip­pines on Jan 9. “Because the Abu Sayyaf has entered (Jolo) town. If they see anyone whom they don’t recognise, they’ll kill them.”

“There’s killing in Jolo town every other day,” he added.

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