(7 Mar 2013)
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1. Protesters outside Philippines embassy in Kuala Lumpur, holding pictures of Jamalul Kiram III, who claims to be the sultan, or hereditary ruler of the Sulu province in Philippines, with "Wanted" written next to his photo on banners
2. Pan of protesters holding a banner with Kiram picture on it, and "Wanted" written next to the picture
3. Protesters holding the banner in front of a gate
4. Tilt up from protesters standing on pictures of Kiram
5. Protester stepping on picture
6. Protesters tearing picture
7. Protesters burning picture
8. Close of burning picture on ground
STORYLINE:
Protesters staged a rally in front of the Philippines embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, calling on the Philippines government to arrest the head of a Filipino Muslim royal clan whose 200 members took over an entire village in Malaysia last month.
The protest came as Malaysian security forces gunned down 31 Filipino intruders in Borneo on Thursday, the highest number of casualties in a single day since the clan took over the village.
However, representatives of the Filipino group denied their members had been killed.
The armed clansmen have wreaked political havoc for both Malaysia and the neighbouring Philippines by trying to stake a long-dormant royal territorial claim to Malaysia's sprawling, resource-rich state of Sabah in Borneo.
Most of the Filipinos had eluded capture in a coastal Sabah district filled with palm oil plantations and forested hills after Malaysian forces attacked them with airstrikes and mortar fire on Tuesday.
Protesters burned pictures of Jamalul Kiram III, who claims to be the sultan, or hereditary ruler, of the southern, predominantly Muslim province of Sulu in the Philippines.
A brother of Kiram, who lives in Manila, is heading the group in Sabah.
Malaysian national police chief said at least 52 Filipinos have now been killed in the past week since hostilities in the Sabah security crisis escalated.
Eight policemen also were fatally shot by the Filipino clansmen and their allies last week in various parts of Sabah.
Less than two hours before the announcement of the casualties, Prime Minister Najib Razak rejected a cease-fire call by Jamalul Kiram III.
Kiram had ordered them to observe a unilateral cease-fire starting on Thursday afternoon by holding their current position and taking a defensive posture.
Najib responded by saying Malaysia would accept only unconditional surrender by the clansmen, who slipped into Sabah by sea around Feb. 9.
The Filipinos say Sabah belonged to their royal sultanate for more than a century and should be handed back.
Malaysia has dismissed their claim to the state, which has been part of Malaysia for five decades.
An estimated 800-thousand Filipinos, mostly Muslims from insurgency-plagued southern provinces, have settled in Sabah over the years to seek work and stability.
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