Al- Fatihah... lagi sekali.... berdenyut2 jantung aku lepas baca citer ni.... sedih sedih sedih 56x sedih.... baca citer 2 anggota Vat69 yg pertama gugur.....
entah lah naper aku ni sensitif sangat bila baca citer2 diorg ni.... aku rasa sedih sbb mungkin aku pun seorang isteri, seorang ibu... aku bayangkan kalau mereka itu adalah saudara terdekat ku... bayangkan kalau sebagai isteri kita baca mcm mana suami kita terkorban.... waduhhhhh sedihnya...
tengah2 baca menitik airmata aku kuar.... betapa sedih dan perwira nya diorang dalam misi diorg....
di bawah aku copy paste kan dari link NST.... sila lah baca....
ANGER AND SADNESS: VAT 69 commandos relive the nightmare of seeing their comrades get killed
LAHAD DATU: It was 3am and pitch dark on the heavily fortified beach we were on after a long, eventful day.
The previous day, security forces had launched a massive attack on
Kampung Tanduo where terrorists from Sulu had been holed up since Feb
12.
The fear was that they could have broken through the security cordon and entered nearby villages.
Most of the security personnel around us had their eyes glued to
their night vision binoculars sweeping the waters ahead and the vast
area behind us.
Our discussion on what we were planning to do later in the morning was
interrupted by a security personnel who walked up from behind
unnoticed.
We stood up and turned his way, answering his “salam” that greeted us.
The personnel, whom from then on we addressed as “Abang” asked us what we were doing there.
Our conversation revealed what many had wanted to know about what had
happened on March 1, when the country was rocked by news that two
security personnel he referred to as “brothers”, were killed by the
terrorists in an ambush.
Before us stood the commando who was tasked with maintaining the
security cordon around Kampung Tanduo under Ops Sulu (now codenamed Ops
Daulat).
Initially, it seemed impossible to get Abang, whose face was
weather-beaten and weary, to open up to us. He was not convinced we were
journalists until we showed him our press credentials.
It was clear to us then that as much as he didn’t want to, as he had
no authority to talk to civilians, he wanted to defend his fellow
comrades who had been accused by some quarters as being part of a
staged “drama”.
Abang was one of roughly 40 VAT 69 commandos deployed in the first of three front lines to tighten the security cordon.
VAT 69 is the main force. The second line is the police elite strike force, followed by the general operations force.
That morning, in a six-layer “U” formation, the VAT 69 team started
inching closer into the terrorists’ hideout in the village that was
located several hundred metres from the shore. Metres ahead of them
was an incline.
As they moved further in, personnel in the first line, which included
fallen heroes Assistant Su perintendent Zulkifli Mamat, 29, and Sergeant
Sabarudin Daud, 46, stopped in their tracks.
All personnel behind them, also stopped. They were suddenly face to
face with several terrorists who had been hiding in a chest-deep ditch
which was camouflaged with dried palm leaves.
“They all suddenly stood up and both sides had weapons trained at each
other. Our brothers in front were training their M-16s down at the
terrorists... there were several seconds of silence.
“We had instructions not to shoot on sight as our mission was to seek and capture.
“During this stand-off, which lasted a few seconds, we noticed more of them behind a slope, just behind the ditch.
“It was in that few seconds when their snipers from the slope shot our
two brothers in the head,” he said, anger and sadness evident in his
eyes.
Heavy exchange of gunfire ensued, and the commandos killed 12 terrorists.
Abang said when the shooting stopped, his team did not pursue the
terrorists as they were uncertain of the enemies’ strength and numbers.
“I saw it all from where I was. I saw a glimpse of his face as he fell
back after being hit... it killed me,” he said, referring to one of his
men who was shot. Abang then turned and walked away.
As we, too, turned to walk back to our base, we were approached by
another personnel who had earlier passed us by as we were talking to
Abang.
This VAT 69 commando, who wanted to be identified only as Agus, was also part of Abang’s team.
Pointing towards Abang, who by then had almost disappeared into the
night, Agus said: “He’s very affected by Tuan Zulkifli’s death. He saw
him being shot in the head. He could not do anything but continued
shooting at the enemy, even as Tuan Zulkifli’s lifeless body brushed
against his leg after hitting the ground”.
Agus said the team had, for several mornings, been moving further into the village, setting up camps as they advanced.
On that fateful morning’s mission, Agus was positioned in the third row.
“When one of my brothers was shot in the leg during the shoot- out, my comrades in the fourth row pulled him further back.
“He was bleeding so heavily that I had to crouch to stop the bleeding
with my left hand while I held my M-16 with my right hand, support ing
the buttstock with my right knee, for about half an hour.
“All this while the rest of us continued firing towards the ditch and slope, until the enemy retreated,” he said.
At this point, another personnel who was standing close by joined us.
His eyes were glistening with tears of anger when he told us how he felt
with regard to the accusations that the Kampung Tanduo ambush was a
political ploy. His demeanour changed.
It was difficult for both of us to hold back our emotions when this
six-foot commando, whose face was thick in grime, cried as he told us
this: “It is something that will haunt you forever, seeing the lifeless
bodies of your comrades mutilated. Imagine holding a family member
whose body had been mutilated, in your arms.
“One of them was my former squad member, who had a full life ahead of
him,” said the personnel who was assigned to the water village in
Kampung Seri Jaya, Simunul in Semporna, to retrieve the bodies of six
personnel killed there during an ambush last Sat urday.
In the two separate ambushes, eight members of the security forces were killed.
Aku terkesan dgn ayat ke 3 yg aku kaler kan.... “I saw it all from where I was. I saw a glimpse of his face as he fell
back after being hit... it killed me,”
Bukan setakat Abang yg bercerita tu yg terkesan, aku yg baca pun boleh nangis2 sampai budak opis ni, Azhar suh Shahrul pasang lagu Bukit Kepong sebb nampak aku nangis....
Abang yg bercerita ni marah sangat bila ramai sangat yg mengutuk2 anggota kita sampai terpaksa citer untuk bagi buka mata orang luar faham situasi diorang.... aku pun tak paham lah diorg ni.... apasal lah sanggup mengutuk misi diorg..... kalau kat fesbuk tu, masyaallah.... mcm2 diorg cerita....
tapi, 90% kawan2 aku semua sokong PDRM dan ATM kita.... dan aku rasa tiba2 je semangat kecintaan pada negara timbul dengan kejadian ini....
kawan2 chinese aku semua senyap... aku rasa mungkin sebab perwira kita banyak melayu maka diorg tak ada perasaan pun nak komen pasal ini.... kena gak hantar sorang dua anggota cina bagi balance.... kan?
apa pun, aku tetap sokong mereka yg mempertahankan negara dan aku tetap akan doakan mereka dilindungi Allah swt dalam misi mereka...
Takziah kepada keluarga yg kehilangan.... moga roh mereka tenang dan diangkat sebagai syahid dunia... amin...
