Skip to main content

Video shows women taken hostage by Maute ask Duterte to rescue them

hijab © Provided by GMA News Online hijab

A video of women who were supposedly held hostage by Maute group members in Marawi City has surfaced in the social media.

According to a report by Maki Pulido on "24 Oras" on Wednesday, the women were appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte for their rescue.

The seven hostages were all wearing hijab.

It was unclear when and where the video was taken.

A video of another alleged hostage, Father Teresito "Chito" Suganob, has also spread in the social media.

The report said the military was still looking into the motive behind the video.

"Seemingly the video may seem to be authentic but beyond the authenticity and the message of the video, there lies in the real reason for coming up with a video which is propaganda purposes and we would not want to get into that," Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said.

Suganob, in the video, was seen pleading with the military to stop its offensive against the Maute group for the safety of the "prisoners of war."

Padilla said Suganob seemed to have been forced to say those things in the video.

"The propaganda of the enemy is already of means that are indicative that they're fighting for survival they are trapped, they are contained, they are in areas that they will not come out alive unless they surrender," he said. —Anna 

Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

You can pay at a restaurant by smiling at a camera

© Provided by Engadget As easy as it is to make purchases in the era of tap-to-pay services , it's about to get easier still. Alipay (which handles purchases for Chinese shopping giant Alibaba) has launched what it says is the first payment system that uses facial recognition to complete the sale. If you visit one of KFC's KPRO restaurants in Hangzhou, China, you can pay for your panini or salad by smiling at a camera-equipped kiosk -- you need to verify the purchase on your phone, but you don't have to punch in digits or bring your phone up to an NFC reader. The system (Smile to Pay) is purportedly resistant to spoofing with photos and other tricks. It relies on both depth-sensing cameras and a "likeness detection algorithm" to make sure it's really you. Reportedly, the technology is good enough that it can accurately identify people even when they're disguising themselves through makeup or wigs. You shouldn't have to worry about someone buying ...
Read more

Cimatu warns miners: Don’t befoul watersheds, forests, aquatic resources

© Provided by Mediamerge Corporation Newly-appointed Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu poses for a photo before being sworn into office by President Rodrigo Duterte ahead of the 15th Cabinet meeting in Malacañang on Monday, May 7, 2017. Robinson Niñal/PPD Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu on Tuesday warned mining firms to observe responsible mining and avoid destructive practices or face sanctions His pronouncement came in response to President Rodrigo Duterte's second State of the Nation Address, in which the chief executive emphasized mining's impact on the environment. "I know for a fact that in a number of cases, weak and irresponsible mining practices result [in] environmental destruction—contaminating farmlands and poisoning our rivers and seas," Cimatu said in a statement. "Miners better refrain from despoiling our watersheds, forests and aquatic resources," he added. Cimatu said the Department of Environment and Natural Res...
Read more

Tesla cloud account hacked to mine cryptocurrency

© Provided by The Hill An unidentified outside hacker infiltrated Tesla's Amazon cloud account and used its systems to quietly mine for cryptocurrencies, a cybersecurity firm announced Tuesday. The hack also potentially exposed the electric car company's data. Researchers for RedLock found that Tesla's credentials on an IT administrative console were not password protected. They made the discovery while trying to track down which organizations had left their Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials openly exposed on the internet last month. The hackers quietly hijacked the console and began running scripts to generate virtual currency like bitcoin, the latest in a series of "cryptojacking" attacks. The researchers also found the hackers used "sophisticated evasion measures" to go undetected. A spokesperson for Tesla said the company learned about the breach in a company-sanctioned bug bounty program that pays outside hackers to discover vulnerabilitie...
Read more