Malaysian Sultan Jamalul Kiram III orders unilateral ceasefire

Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, right, of the Sultanate of Sulu, and his daughter Princess Jacel Kiram, talk to the media in their house after attending the Friday prayers at the Blue Mosque at suburban Taguig city east of Manila, Philippines Friday Mar.8, 2013. Kiram III ordered his “Royal Army” followers, led by his brother Raja Muda Agbimuddin Kiram, for a unilateral ceasefire following firefights at a village in Lahad Datu, Sabah state in Malaysia that resulted in the killing of at least eight Malaysian forces and allegedly more than a dozen of his followers. Kiram’s followers occupied the Malaysian village Feb.9. <AP Photo/Bullit Marquez>